The Harm From AI To All Of Us

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                  

                     Watch out!  I hear AI is learning to think on its own

AI is only as intelligent as the people who create it.  Right now it is fed with hatred of Israel, for we are hated by practically every group and country in the world.  That's the propaganda that is being delivered into AI.  Take Italy right now.  I think of Daniel Silva's books that take place in Rome.  The main character, Gabriel Allon, is a retired Mossad head, whose wife is a Roman Jewess, and they live in Rome.  Gabriel often has helped out the Pope, knows all the head people there, and there was good rapport.  A Jew cannot walk down the streets today without being cursed or spat upon. There are billboards everywhere against Israel.  People would not speak to Israelis.   That's from a Phd student at the university in Italy just recently, spotted being an Israeli by his accent only.  

The difference between AI and us is that we are not robots like AI, and our thinking is creative at the moment, not fed at a time of production.  We have the human affect, can judge things as good or bad.  Our minds cannot hold all the information like AI but can make judgement calls and can decide what is true and what is false.  AI can help, by giving us so much information work with, but shouldn't be the final result of any decision.                                

In 1977, Skokie, Illinois was home to around 40,500 Jews, thousands of whom were Holocaust survivors. Then, the National Socialist Party of America, a group of self-styled Nazis planned a march. In March of that year, the group requested a permit to march through the village, and were sued by Skokie to prevent it. They chose Skokie purposely, to hurt the people there.  It was no accident.  

Alan Dershowitz, lawyer, has a mind like a computer.  He remembers everything about our constitution-everything.  When it came to Skokie, the Nazis won due to his judgement call that differed from his mother.  His was like a computer, and his mother (and I, for that matter) held onto our human quality of acknowledging the intent of Nazis harming the Jewish neighborhood holocaust survivors once again and on purpose, and deemed the Nazis guilty.  So I see in this a human acting with a robot's AI information.                                

In Jewish law, the same idea prevailed centuries ago.  The two houses were Bet Hillel (Hillel's house) and Bet Shammai (Shammai's house), with Bet Hillel being the more lenient school whose opinions were ultimately chosen to be followed. Bet Shammai was known for being stricter, while Bet Hillel emphasized compassion and individual welfare, making its rulings more applicable in daily life. After the destruction of the temple in 70 CE, the more lenient rulings of Bet Hillel became the basis for mainstream rabbinic law.  Even then, the judges saw that onecannot live with only the AI information, and they had no idea how that would develop later.  

I can spot an AI story written only by AI.  Good grief!  They are all alike!  They have the same taste and flavor the way they turn out; only their subject is different.  They go on and on, never getting to even one point.  It's horrible.  I skip reading it as soon as this shows up.

The problem is that people read and do accept anything written as if it is the bible.  If it is slamming something they have grown up believing, they are willing believers also, maybe even more-so.  They do not read opposing information.  Example.  Many follow whatever is given on Fox News and no other.  What only Fox says is to be believed. Fox is the most popular newscast around.  "Yes, Fox News is consistently the most-watched cable news channel and has been for more than 23 consecutive years. In 2025, it has frequently been the highest-rated network across all of television (including broadcast networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC) in weekday primetime and total day viewership.."  

Whatever would we do without google.  It's giving us encyclopedias at our fingertips.  We should know so much more than ever before.  When a question comes to my mind, I can look it up quickly.  When it involves international political situations, there is so much research in front of me to do, and for everyone else, too.  There, you have to really know how to separate the wheat from the chaff (winnowing).  This is harvest time.  Be sure you do a good job.  Since these robots are learning to think, we think, they will only think with what they have been fed.  This is really scary.