19 “better” than we can. The good news is that, by forcing us to confront these issues head-on, we are jolted out of our complacency—the way humans have thought about the value and worth of their humanity for centuries. What makes our creativity meaningful? When we write a report or even have a conversation, how robotic are we when we base our responses and written expression on convention, templates, or formulas? When we take our email programs up on the offer to suggest sentences as responses to messages, we might say, “Well, these communications don’t matter.” Current, and future, AI capability is forcing us, I hope, to revalue our human experience and the choices we can make when using tools of technology. When is easier better? What are we giving up? Which communications matter? The less they matter, the less we matter. Being human takes time. It’s slow. It’s messy. Just like our imperfect memories, though, they are unique expressions of us, born from innumerable moments of living in the world that can never be replicated. The process of our humanity is gold we should not squander. There is no future in policing the use of AI. Rather, we would be better served by taking a hard look at how we touch the lives of others, who touch our lives, and what we want in our society to be the emblems of our humanity for future generations. o ‘‘ As we face the reality of the most sophisticated AI programs yet developed … we are pushed to consider … what really makes us human and why our own creations matter.” Marlisa Santos, Ph.D. MARLISA SANTOS, PH.D. Professor, NSU Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, and Honors Faculty Fellow, NSU Farquhar Honors College Santos is also the director of NSU’s Center for Applied Humanities, the mission of which is to address real-world problems from a humanities perspective, promoting positive change and public good. AI
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NDE4MDg=