What if we move? All our work to AI?

We can compare the threat that AI poses to society to the influence of slavery on the Roman Empire. Sometimes people say that slavery destroyed Roman civilization. When the Romans transferred all duties and work to slaves, they became weak and lazy. That caused a situation where, in the case. There, Rome was under threat; there were no people. With the ability to fight against the threat that came in the form of Attila. When Attila and his Huns robbed. 

The city of Rome, all glory was gone. People noticed that Rome was the only city on the map. And that caused loss of respect. The reason. The reason the Roman Empire lost was that. It didn’t create anything new. It always used the same tactics. That caused the situation. The enemies of Rome knew what the Romans would do next. And they knew how to react to that thing. In the same way. If we give all the work. Into the hands of robots. And learn to use only the answers that the AI gives. We are going into the same position. Where the Romans went when they turned lazy. We will face a situation where nobody does anything. People just give orders to the AI. And that thing makes everything for humans.

What is gained in quantity is lost in accuracy. Things like dictionary books. They involve lots of topics. But information about each topic is limited.  When we want deep knowledge about things like how to make a computer program, we need a more precise dictionary. We need a data source about programming, which means the source involves information about fewer topics, but it involves information on how to create something. 

There are two ways. To measure productivity. 

1) We can simply calculate the number of products. That is a quantitative way to determine effectiveness. This is the simplest way to determine effectiveness. We can calculate how many reports the worker. Or some other actor makes during the working day. This is the easiest way to determine effectiveness. The number of reports. It is a good way to measure. The effectiveness of a worker. But. Those reports can only be scratching the surface. They might be like some encyclopedia. There is a lot of information. Or lots of topics. But there are a few details about those things. We couldn’t make things. Like computer programs. Or building houses if we only have common encyclopedias. We need deeper knowledge. About things that we should make when we want to make those things. The encyclopedia involves. A lot of surface data. About many things. 

2) We can see the quality of the product. This means a qualitative way to determine effectiveness. Deep information and deep knowledge are the qualitative ways to determine effectiveness. But then. We face another problem. How to determine deep knowledge? How can we say? Does that report involve deep knowledge? We can determine. The qualitative way to determine effectiveness. In programming. As the number of lines that pass the tests. But in things like regular reports or novels, we must ask, what makes some texts more qualitative than others? Is it that somebody clicks the link? 

The problem is that the AI recycles information. It will not make anything new. The final part of the Roman decay was a situation. Where Romans who loved Greece and philosophy started to read only texts written by the Greek philosophers. They didn’t even try to create their own texts. Except for some different people, like Marcus Aurelius. Bu. If we deliver all our work to the AI. We are choosing a path that is not good. In that case. People just lie. At home. Maybe that thing seems easy. But what if we turn our lives. Too easy? What if we lose our skills to read and write? We can simply give orders to AI, and it generates texts for us. Maybe. Most of those texts please readers. But do they improve our skills? To write and produce texts? When we talk about things. 

Like giving an ability to think to the AI. We always forget a couple of things. First thing is that. The AI is a good tool. To follow things. Like stock marketing or a certain vehicle in traffic. The AI is the only thing that can sort and process large data masses. And then if we follow the orders that the AI gives. We deliver our decision to AI. That brings new and complicated questions. The complicated question is, what if we don’t follow the orders that AI gives? If we want to sort manually. 

The same data mass that an AI agent sorts in minutes. We would spend years in that process. We can make AI to create texts. And that makes us effective. But. There is a price. For that effective work. We give orders to AI that creates lots of documents. But that doesn’t mean that we must read a single one of them. We can say that the situation is similar if we ask lots of questions. And then nobody answers.