Dear Editor,

While artificial intelligence (AI), transferring human attributes into machines, seems to be the answer to an expanding world, it is certainly not the complete answer.

It isn’t enough that things operate optimally on a mechanical level. That’s why humans are more than just brutal logic and cold logistics. Humans also have emotions, such as love, fear, happiness, and anger. All of which may be meaningless to robots and other such apparatuses designed to meet the needs of the technological age.

But this is where the deficiency and one-sided disadvantage of a purely materialistic focus surfaces. For instance, the war that is currently taking place in Ukraine is not just about more modern or superior weapons, but like most wars, is about greed, revenge, power, jealousy, and a list of human cobwebs for which bombs and other artillery are just the servants.

Therefore, if humans intend to create much safer and independent AI technology, a balance must be created by ensuring such technology has its own internal monitoring system, such as artificial morality.

The need for this balance, however, proves that humans were already designed in completeness.

Homer Sylvester

h2sylvester@gmail.com