Trigger Question #1:
Admit it. You are a cognitive miser. So am I. We all are.
We are mentally lazy. We do the minimum amount of mental work we think is necessary. We use mental short-cuts and simple decision-making rules to make deductions rapidly and draw conclusions speedily. And that, believe it or not, is what we did eons ago before the information overload hit us. Imagine the short-cuts and other tricks we must use now.
Is AI one of these tricks? Oh, yes, because it surely tricks us into believing that it is now okay for us to make quick decisions with no thinking on our part!
The problem with using mental short-cuts is that we make up our minds without considering all relevant information. (Do you really trust AI’s ‘relevant’ information?)
Yes, I know, too often it is simply not possible to consider, or even uncover, all relevant information. But that is actually not the problem. The real problem is that, even knowing that we lack information, we still act as if we know it all. (Thanks, AI.)
Above all, we ignore the fact that our mental laziness leads to prejudgment. We judge before we should. We are not yet ready to judge because we haven’t considered all the information; we don’t yet have all the data; we haven’t thought deeply enough.
We jump the gun because we pre-judge. We judge before we are ready to judge. Do you know what prejudgment leads to? Prejudice. Prejudice happens because we are too lazy to do the work required to make proper judgments.
We often dislike or distrust people, things, situations, events, simply because we are mentally lazy. The lazier we are, the more we will trust AI. And the more we will make quick judgments.
Ergo, AI makes us more prejudiced.
Welcome to my side of the nonsense divide.
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Quote of the Moment:
“Prejudice is popular because it takes far less effort than fairness and justice.” The Chief Nonsense Officer.
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