The problem is not artificial intelligence, but human intelligence

*Column written by Eduardo Cosomano

After hearing so much about artificial intelligence, many people have come to expect it to be the solution or cause of all our problems. In fact, it will be very helpful in various aspects in both your personal and professional life and will also bring adjustment challenges.

But at the same time, there is a distinct lack of attention to the human intelligence that is behind every technological change humanity has experienced.

I’m not talking about technical skills, but they are important too. I’m mainly talking about maturity, empathy and emotional ability. These skills may seem off topic, but I assure you they are not.

Who trains artificial intelligence? What kind of content does technology learn and improve from? Absolutely: made by humans. The machine can easily find grammar rules and scientific formulas in the database, but it also draws on purely human concepts to formulate coherent responses and new ideas. And if these concepts are distorted, AI will be distorted too.

Our emotions, our critical reasoning, the way we cope with daily pressures, all of these also enter the AI ​​knowledge funnel. And then we run the risk of creating “artificial idiots” instead of artificial intelligence.

Because technology cannot connect to reality other than data. If those who provide this data are disconnected from reality, the result cannot be positive.

So what does this mean in practice? Look at the amount of learning we have yet to absorb as a society. We do not learn from ongoing wars; With the climate crisis continuing from worse to worse; with election debates that are more like a circus.

Even individually, it’s still easy to find people trapped in their own bubbles. We see that businessmen make publications that offend thousands of people, without thinking about the consequences, because they are too far away from their surroundings.

Therefore, I do not think that artificial intelligence can solve so many problems or cause a disastrous period for humanity. Apparently, It is humanity itself that continues to follow dangerous paths and has much more difficulty with “machine learning”.

After all, artificial intelligence is overrated and human stupidity is underestimated. Nelson Rodrigues “idiots will take over the world; not by capacity, but by quantity. There are many.”

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Eduardo Cosomano is a journalist, founder of the EDB Comunicação agency and co-author of the best-selling books “Exit from a master: strategies for buying and selling a startup” and “Listen, Act and Enjoy: the strategy that transforms a small business”. has made the company one of the leaders in the industry”, both published by Editora Gente.