AI should guide decisions, not replace judgement

Ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence should help peo­ple make in­formed de­ci­sions, not re­place their abil­i­ty to think crit­i­cal­ly, ex­er­cise sound judge­ment and dis­tin­guish truth from mis­in­for­ma­tion.

That was the mes­sage from Dr Van­dana Di­vya Jyothi Per­sad, who de­liv­ered the fea­ture ad­dress at Sun­day's Di­vali Na­gar cel­e­bra­tions, un­der the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture's (NCIC) theme, Vivek – dis­cern­ing truth in the age of AI.

“Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence is no match for nat­ur­al stu­pid­i­ty,” Per­sad told the au­di­ence, warn­ing that peo­ple risked us­ing tech­nol­o­gy to re­in­force ex­ist­ing be­liefs rather than chal­lenge their think­ing.