Artificial
intelligence and technology have created hope for a better future for humanity.
This revolution of the 21st century is affecting every sphere of life in one
way or another. Mostafa Suleiman, author of a recently published book, reviews
"The Possibilities of Human Development through New Technologies and
Challenges". His book covers the global debate on new technological
innovations and their risks. This book, co-authored by Henry Kissinger, Eric
Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlooker, titled "The H of IT and Our Human
Future" was published in 2021 and has been debated in various circles ever
since and the reality of artificial intelligence. The breakthroughs come at a
time when artificial intelligence will outpace humans in a few years. Modern
technology has empowered many positive developments such as empowering people
to improve lives, increase productivity, advance medical and scientific
knowledge, and transform societies. Technological progress has also helped
foster unprecedented social and economic growth, but new vulnerabilities and
harms have resulted from advanced technologies, which are still poorly or not
effectively understood and addressed.
According
to author Mustafa Suleiman, "the wave of technology has brought human
history to a turning point" and the coming wave will be more difficult.
Those working in the biotechnology sector using artificial intelligence will
earn more capital but this will have negative effects, even "catastrophes
of unimaginable proportions". The authors agree that artificial
intelligence is the great meta-problem of the 21st century, presented in a
thought-provoking book. Mustafa Suleiman's main concern is how to limit the
growing role of technology so that it serves humanity and does not harm
humanity. According to Mustafa Sulaiman, human history can be divided into
different periods and described as a series. The problem is that many factors
and technologies work together. Which has deep social implications. He
describes the history of the technology and how it has had both intended and
unintended dangerous consequences and the challenges it has posed for
prevention. They also describe the inevitable challenges faced by technology in
that it has not controlled the innovations and the uses of the inventions. This
is an unexpected situation that seems difficult to avoid because humanity has
not yet fully understood the dangers faced by technologies that can lead to
retaliatory effects which means that technology is wrong instead of its
original purpose. Traveling in the direction Technology always creates problems
and prevention has become a necessary and inevitable necessity to stop its
harmful effects on the society. Even so, the problem of deterrence is not
resolved, but according to Sulaiman, it is an exception. Nuclear technology,
one of the most prevalent technologies in history. Its proliferation has been
attributed to the non-proliferation policy of nuclear powers due to concerns
about their destructive effects. In addition, nuclear weapons are extremely
complex and expensive to manufacture. The authors point out that the evolution
of artificial intelligence will lead to artificial biology because these
technologies are related to the two fundamental principles of the world,
intelligence and life, and this leads to unprecedented development in new
fields. New trends in engineering are emerging and are outpacing human
intelligence, which is a threat in its own right. If the current technological
wave that acts as the axis of artificial intelligence is not controlled in the
present early stage, it will be not only difficult but impossible to control it
in the future, but Sulaiman Mustafa writes that understanding the technology is
about its implications. This will be the first step towards accurate
prediction, especially when large-scale artificial intelligence reaches its
final limits. The book also details advances in biotechnology and genetic
engineering, which are advancing at an unprecedented pace and ushering in a
"new era of artificial life," but other transformative technologies,
such as robotics and quantum Computing is also part of this new wave.