MODULE 8

Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us?

LEARNING ACTIVITY 1. Let’s dig deeper!

After reading the article by Bill Joy on “Why the Future

Doesn’t Need Us”, make an outline using the format below
and answer the given questions.

Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us

1. Main Ideas (What are the main ideas that have you gained in the article?)
I. In April of 2000, Bill Joy ignited a heated discussion concerning the role of
technology in modern society.
II. His article in Wired magazines entitled “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us” became
the focus of a growing concern that technological advances are coming so quickly and
are so dramatic that they threaten the future existence of humanity itself.
III. He argues that the 21st century technologies such as genetic engineering,
nanotechnology and robotics (GNR) are a great threat that they might wipe out the
human race from face of the Earth.

2. Insights (What new insights or learning did you gain in discussion/activity?)

I. Before reading the article/ understanding the lesson, I thought…
That artificial intelligence is terrifying. It is actually my greatest fear. And that
achieving immortality through technology can be good. And also, that the world need
us. The future needs us.

II. However, reading the article/ understanding the lesson, I now think/ realize…
That it is not as good as how it looked like how did in my mind. Immortality had
been one of the few things I had thought of solving. I have been too seduced by the
promise of eternal life that I had been thinking on how to achieve it. I had thought about
how the consciousness could be stored in a chip or thumb drive can be installed into a
body and there you go, being a complete human being. And that catching down a bit on
the field of technology might be the only solution as of today. We cannot predict the
future but we can see a bit of where we are heading but we cannot steer it.
2. Short Answer Question
I. The article is titled “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us?” Do you agree that the future
won’t indeed us? Explain your answer.
I disagree because the definition I know in technology it is not all about invasion or
something else that killed people. What I mean is technology is created to be our
partners in life. Partner that human become more productive and effective. Partner that
help people doing their works more faster, and easily. In short for me technology
technology built for human satisfaction obey man command and workers for it.
LEARNING ACTIVITY 2. Let’s watch and Learn!

After watching the documentary film on Artificial

Intelligence (AI), work on the following:

1. Identify the positive and negative impacts of AI

filling the table below:

Positive Impact Negative Impact Possible Issues

Artificial Unemployment and Artificial
intelligence can loss of jobs. One Intelligence three
dramatically of the major major ares of
improve the effects that ethical concern
efficiencies of Artificial for society:
our workplaces and Intelligence privacy and
can augment the negatively has on surveillance, bias
work humans can humanity is that and
do. When it causes loss of discrimination,
Artificial jobs and and perhaps the
Intelligence takes unemployment. The deepest, most
over repetitive or use of computers difficult
dangerous tasks, and machines to do philosophical
it frees up the tasks which ab question of the
human workforce to initio were done era, the role of
do work they are by humans have human judgement,
better equipped caused loss of said Sandel, who
for tasks that jobs and teaches a course
involve creativity employment in the moral,
and empathy among opportunities for social, and
others. If people people. Workers political
are doing work are being laid off implications of
that is more as employers new technologies.
engaging for them, prefer using
it could increase computers and
happiness and job machines to do the
satisfaction. jobs which they
(workers) were
employed to do.
For example, the
use of machines in
agriculture and
building
constructions have
to a great extent
reduced the
requirement for
manual labour in
those areas.
2. Write your own reflection about the documentary film.
(300-500 words)

As we all know that Artificial Intelligence is the

highest invention and biggest achievement of a human from
time to time, before and then. Artificial Intelligence
can shape the behavior of an individual on how they take
their responsibilities towards our society, even in the
whole world because it simulate characteristics of human
intelligence on senses and artificial intelligence could
be a substitute to a something or it will replace a thing
or even a man can be replaced of. Why do I say so?
Relying on the movie to what extent for, it portrays
something that artificial intelligence can rule over the
man because they move from knowledge aggregators to
information processors to artificially intelligent
devices that self-learn to generate more targeted,
accurate information faster than the human brain, even
without human interaction and one day it will surpass
human natural intelligence and will no longer need us.
The advancement in our scientific endeavor is so
advanced that we actually venturing on creating
artificial intelligence. As the movie portrays, highly
industrialized civilization results to a drastic decrease
in population due to the massive destruction of the
environment, depicting abuse of the principle of
stewardship. In addition, people of the movie have
created an artificial intelligence to satisfy various and
selfish gratification such as solitude, entertainment and
sex that you will ever wander how they do it. You might
curios about those sensible matters because they create a
bond of possibilities from impossibilities that turns you
into green or it depends.
In reflection to the movie it is significant and
relevant to me and to the rest that touches my heart like
a crumpled piece that turns into full of roses and
enlightened me up. Because it portrays the meaning of
love, care, attention, that a child wanted of his foster
parents and even the rejection to the society of being
different from everybody or to anybody. If we try to put
ourselves from David situations, I know we will act
similarly or the same of what we sense of. Because we
want to experience the rainbow of a woman- motherly love
and to be brave enough from the quest it is because there
is light of a man- father. Why is it big deal for me?
Because I never experience the true meaning of love from
my dad or maybe I’m the only one who insane just because
I felt jealous from my brother and sister.
ASSESSEMENT TASK
Directions: Choose the item that best suited each number.

1. D
2. E
3. E
4. C
5. B