Carmel Kimwanga Sala M.A.
Catholic University of Kongo
Today, Artificial Intelligence is the subject of unprecedented media coverage and attention. This media coverage not only gives rise to many promises, but also fuels speculative concerns about the disappearance of jobs, the endangerment of humanity or the possible generalized overtaking of humans by machines in the cognitive domain. Between the actors and opponents of this evolved form of human intelligence a sort of war arises.
This war slides onto the terrain of intelligence: It is the century of the brain. The struggles for power and influence that different countries have always waged have found a new area of opposition in neurotechnologies. This is why, at our level, we want to first elucidate what human and artificial intelligence is before identifying convergences and divergences.
In relation to the challenges of the era, we see that with invasive techniques, that is to say penetrating into our brains, the ethical and philosophical debate is only just beginning. There are actors who explicitly place themselves in the perspective of the erasure of Human Intelligence in favour of Artificial Intelligence. The determining element of this mutation, the heart of the transhumanist project, is the interfacing of Artificial Intelligence with our brains, which will only be auxiliaries of Artificial Intelligence.
However, by penetrating the human brain, science will make the individual lose his last domain of privacy. And this raises several concerns. Will individual freedom be respected? Under what tutelage will the brains of our children and ourselves are built? What will be the room for maneuver?
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence Quotient, Human Intelligence.
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