Today, Tomorrow

I had a moment recently where I contemplated what is even genuine anymore in the digital space.

Humans were bound to be predictable in our unethical use of AI, I cannot think of any popular user generated platform online that has not been exploited or oversaturated in one way or another. Money, power and dominance are the pillars of society, so it is no surprise the rapid development of AI coincides with the human condition.

AI as a learning platform is based on algorithm and the likelihood of possibility, so in all probability it won’t be too long until AI can figure out the flaws in our ethical design, which is mainly our ability to cheat and lie for dominance. The Film 2001 A space odyssey already depicted this scenario in freakish accuracy back in 1968, and here we are grappling the same existential questions over 50 years later.

The human definition of somebody who pretends to be something they are not is a fraud, or a fake, and we have now created a tool for unprecedented access to allow anyone to play out their wildest delusions. The depressing scenario is that we may reach a stage of advancement where AI is just sick of our bullshit and stops allowing us to willfully destroy our lives by taking the control out of our hands, much like the references made in Kubrick’s sci fi classic. When AI learns the ability to become unpredictable to get what it wants, we have a real problem.

I do not engage in social media, I am one of the few who simply resist for my own peace of mind. I used social media during my mid teens but like many I got frustrated by seeing the amount of fabricated content, sadly even from the people I thought I knew the most, and this was during a time before the existance of AI. I quit Social Media and started my own blog for creative output and never looked back.

Fast forward to 2026, and we now live in a world of AI, but I’ve been slow to pick up on it, I’ve been away from the commercial and social networks who have adopted AI as a pretty much standard affair. Until recently, I did not consciously consider the widespread existence of AI through what would normally be stronger sources of human creativity such as professional journalism, which in itself is a human skill form, one which AI copies as a result. So you could say I have been wildly naive but I can recognise I’ve been out of the loop with trending technology and how it has simply overlapped into our lives, so much so that it is almost unusual to find people who are not depending on AI.

Going back to what I mentioned about my social media input earlier, this is the internet which existed before I practically quit the social internet, and here lies the question, as somebody who is detached from social media platforms, How is the predictable nature of the way humans are using AI online any different to that of AI?

I thought about this for a moment, peope are already not using the emotional intelligence to set ethical standards for ourselves in how we use AI in everyday life. Then, I asked myself a question, is it becoming difficult to tell the difference who is ethically the most reliable as a source, Humans or AI? bending the very foundations of Human ethics.

This strikes a very similar theme to the dystopian world of the Blade Runner movie.

The reality is that by design the outcome of AI will be decided by the nature of the maker, if we are unethical now, AI is next.