ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMANITY

Abstract

The phenomenon of the cognitive revolution in the field of artificial intelligence is considered. It turned out that large language models, taking into account auxiliary systems-plugins, already significantly exceeded the intellectual capabilities of not only average intellectuals, but in general the intellectual capabilities of a significant number of specialists in most fields of activity. The analogy of these transformations with the processes of emergence of the second signal system of humanity is shown. People's fears are connected not only with their removal from jobs in most industries, but also with the possibility of a revolution of robots, which are generally able to push humanity to the sidelines. Although among the elites, who no longer meet modern requirements, there are many supporters of using artificial intelligence for enrichment, creating new weapons, and solving infrastructure problems. Recently, there has been an active discussion in the scientific community and government circles about threats to humanity from artificial intelligence (AI). There are fears that artificial intelligence may put too many people out of work too quickly, and chat rooms like ChatGPT and Bard may spread inaccurate or misinformation, violate copyright, generate fakes in both audio and video formats. Other thoughts and suggestions to do a pause in scientific research on AI. At first glance, this does not bother us so much, let civilization develop in the direction of using new opportunities. But history teaches us. Look at how people are not very rational with atomic energy, chemistry, genetics and pharmacopoeia, where it is difficult but necessary to create restrictions and safeguards. Until humanity learns to create a new type of elite, which would be able to carefully and carefully approach the use of the achievements of progress, all these safeguards will be ineffective. The problem intersects with insufficient efforts in scientific and applied fields not so much in artificial intelligence, but rather in sociology, attempts to find answers in the future (futurism) and in political science.