Humanity Faces ‘Orwellian’ Future If AI Is Not Controlled: Australian Human Rights Commissioner
It will be more and more difficult to tell fact from fiction as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes commonplace in the future, warns Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay.
Finlay said that the rise of AI platforms like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard would be welcomed by those with “Orwellian tendencies.”
“In George Orwell’s 1984, the Ministry of Truth exercises absolute control of information according to The Party ethos, ‘Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past,’” she wrote in The Australian newspaper.
“If the Ministry of Truth existed today, a more accurate slogan would be ‘Who controls the AI controls the past, the present, and the future,’” she continued….