Tag: Artificial Intelligence
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End of Life
Scientists divide possible end-of-the-world scenarios into two categories: natural causes and human-made causes. Who even researches this stuff, by the way? I wish we were that kind of scientist. Devoting our lives to speculation. Neither wars would bother us, nor the economy. I wonder if it makes you paranoid? Throughout human history, apocalypse scenarios usually…
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Disruptive Technologies-8: Final
I am finally finishing the series on disruptive technologies. Although the word “disruptive” may sound negative, I mentioned that its meaning is actually “things that fundamentally change our lives.” In most of the previous examples, I talked about how these technologies carry many ethical issues alongside their benefits. Now, I will write about technologies that…
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Disruptive Technologies-4: Military Technologies
No healthy person wants to kill. At their core, people are not inclined to kill or to engage in violent conflict. When you look at diaries and notes from the world’s bloodiest wars, you see the same thing. No matter how motivated they were, in the end they say that war is not a good…
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Disruptive Technologies-1: How Disruptive Technologies Reshape Our Lives
Türkce icin tıklayın: https://bahadirhancicek.com/2024/10/04/yikici-teknolojiler-nedir-ne-degildir/ I often complain about the constant flow of information in our era, unconscious social media usage, and the effects social media has on perception. This time, I want to open up this topic a bit more: how all of this is evaluated from a technological perspective, what kinds of problems await…
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Why We Fear Art More Than Weapons
Lately, I’ve been stuck on the question, ‘What is it for?’ While an irrational prejudice forms about some subjects, for others, it’s not even considered. Actually, by asking this question, we can envelop everything we engage with in our daily lives into a cloud of meaninglessness. That’s why I find it a dangerous question. The…
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The Cost of Passivity: How Modern Media Dulls Our Minds
As we grow older, we begin to understand the true value of time. You can’t store it, reclaim it, or buy it back. And as I began to grasp the value of time, I realized how often I had become a passive observer in my own life. The scary part is, this passivity increases each…
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Navigating AI’s Impact on Society
From Creation to Exile: Humanity’s Complicated Dance with Artificial Intelligence We first created artificial intelligence—now, it seems, it’s time to demonize it and cast it out of our own Garden of Eden. Just this week(this is the translation of my original post from 2023), Elon Musk, along with several AI experts and tech leaders, signed…
