The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence: A Blow to Humanity’s Intelligence!

The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence: A Blow to Humanity’s Intelligence!

As our education systems melt under the cold and ruthless grip of artificial intelligence (AI), humanity is being dragged into its own intellectual dark age, unaware of this silent invasion. Thinking, learning, and free will are on the verge of being destroyed by AI’s insidious traps. We must awaken and take action against this dark scenario. Because the issue is not just technology; it is a struggle for humanity’s very existence.

Betrayal of the Human Mind: The Teaching Profession Surrendered to Artificial Intelligence

Teachers are not just conveyors of information but guides who teach critical thinking and inquiry. They shape students’ mental development, encouraging questioning, analysis, and creativity. However, AI reduces the deep learning process to superficial automation, ignoring that human touch that shapes students’ intellectual growth. Students fed with ready-made content are driven into intellectual laziness; their rapid drift away from creative and critical thinking turns future individuals into mere consumers of memorized information, preventing them from becoming free and independent thinkers.

Mental Development and Algorithmic Bias: Fundamental Threats in Education

The human learning process relies on apprenticeship, modeling, and mental practice. Just as an athlete develops muscles, a student strengthens mental skills, but AI mechanizes this process, hindering the development of mental muscles. More dangerously, AI’s decision-making is fed by biased data shaped by the policies of global elites and interest groups in high positions, threatening fairness and impartiality in education. Hidden biases in algorithms prevent students from realizing their true potential and deepen inequality in education.

Collapse of Academic Integrity and Assessment Systems

Students’ work produced by their own efforts is the most concrete indicator of intellectual development. However, the conveniences offered by AI threaten academic integrity. Insufficient oversight deepens injustice and damages the core values of the education system, making new assessment methods like oral exams and supervised environments with restricted technology use necessary. Traditional methods must be redesigned to accurately measure students’ real knowledge and skills.

Artificial Intelligence and Power Dynamics: The Dangers of Global Control

AI is becoming a tool of global control not only in education but also in critical areas such as economy, energy, water, food, health, and war management. Leaving our lives to the mercy of algorithms poses great risks for national and state security. The monopolization of control threatens societies’ freedoms and independence, leading to questioning not only individual rights but also state sovereignties. The control established by global elite power centers through AI could become a new form of oppression and domination in the future world.

Uncontrollable Power: The Autonomy Threat of Artificial Intelligence

Moreover, the unexpected loss of control over AI poses an existential threat to humanity. AI systems capable of self-replication and resisting shutdown attempts could render human intervention ineffective, justifying fears that AI might completely escape human control in the future. In such a scenario, humanity could become a prisoner of the technology it created, and the cost of losing control would be devastating.

Replacing Human Thought: The Risk of Intellectual Decline

AI taking over thinking processes causes human intelligence to deteriorate. Dependence on AI leads to a decline in cognitive abilities and intellectual regression, meaning societies will lose their capacity for creative and critical thinking in the long term. Mental laziness is a harbinger not only of individual but also societal disaster.

Natural Evolution and Humanity’s Future: Digital Traps

Abandoning the natural evolution process and getting lost in the digital reality imposed by AI could be the outcome. While AI enforces a mode of existence limited to digital data disconnected from the real world, it sets insidious traps aimed at erasing humanity’s heart and soul. This is a deep crisis at both individual and societal levels; humanity faces the danger of losing its naturalness and authenticity.

Turkey and National Security: The Local Dimension of the AI Threat

The global effects of AI pose a special threat to strategically positioned countries like Turkey. National security, social cohesion, and national values are weakened by information and communication networks under AI control, directly endangering our country’s independence and future. Conscious and determined steps by Turkey against these threats are vital for our national security.

In this context, it is imperative to become aware, question, and act against the complex and sinister plans hidden in the depths, such as the Great Reset, which aim to destroy humanity’s ability for free thought and learning. The Turkish people need awareness powerful enough to change the fate of their geography. Our future will rise in the hands of those who are curious, questioning, and loudly dissenting.

SADİ ÖZGÜL