Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Post #10: In the Age of AI

After watching the videos regarding AI, it raised some interesting points such as jobs being threatened by AI through automation, social media and Google collecting our data, and Google home and Alexa listening in on our daily conversations. Besides these points, it made me reflect on other notable questions as well.

Complex AI and machine learning offers benefits in jobs like increased productivity, improved decision-making, and customized customer experiences, but also drive innovation. Technologies like these can automate repetitive tasks and allow us to focus on higher-value work while reducing the cost in many industries. 

Privacy with AI technology comes with both pros and cons. 

Looking at it through a positive lens, it can potentially enhance privacy by lowering the need for human access to raw data, minimizing the risk of breaches, and enables personalized and privacy consent devices. 

On the negative side, AI introduces privacy risks such as data breaches, unauthorized access to personal information, and the possibility of algorithmic bias and discrimination. 

AI can also be a tool and a threat for national security. 

AI can analyze vast amounts of data to identify patterns and threats that could be missed by human beings, ultimately strengthening national security. It can also be used to detect and prevent cyberattacks and boost the security of military systems. 

Through a threat perspective, AI technology is used to develop new weapons that raise ethical concerns. It can also be used for surveillance and mass monitoring that cause privacy issues. 

Lastly, AI can be used for identify theft through algorithms used to create realistic but fake pictures and videos which enable people to impersonate others. This also allows people to generate fake profiles on social media platforms for scams. 

It is very important to learn how to protect yourself from AI threats. The most crucial things to do is to use strong passwords for all accounts, secure your devices, report any suspicious activity, avoid clicking on links from unknown senders, and limit personal information put into AI tools. If you suspect you are a part of an AI scam, reach out to your family and friends and inform them to be careful too. 



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