EOTO Reflection #2

 During EOTO #2, I learned a lot of things that I didn't know before that class period. Some of those things were significant parts of society that I didn't know were so vital to society. 

Things such as 5 eyes have been a pivotal part of the security of America since the Cold War. 5 different countries, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the UK, and the USA watch over each other and spy on their citizens through the information that they share with one another through the 5 eyes pact. These countries claim that they watch over one another but it actually raises a lot of privacy concerns because they can get personal information and it stores it in a database between all the countries. These countries have unequal power because of the size and ability of the country's governments which can lead to an imbalance in what countries do in the group of five eyes. Some countries have more benefits to being involved than others.  

 

Another term that I did not know of until this presentation was the difference between Disinformation, Misinformation, and malinformation. The difference between disinformation misinformation and malinformation is much bigger than one may think. Misinformation is false information malinformation is true and factual information that is conveyed to inflict harm on others and then disinformation is false information that is intended to mislead.

These three things affect us a lot because we don't know when we have been affected by disinformation or misinformation online a lot of times you can't tell what things have been confirmed to be true and what things online have been so wrong because media today has so much misinformation malformation and disinformation that it's hard to trust anything for exactly what it is. 

It directly affects us also through the fact that disinformation malformation and misinformation, can affect the way that people help their community improve their Public Health and run certain businesses.  because when one thing is affected by Miss information or mail information it begins a domino effect of more and more people being affected by that male information and even if you figure out that it wasn't correct information it's hard to take that information back because so many people have already heard it. 

These two things can affect us in various different ways but I think that they both are very important to know now in a world that is full of dangerous threats both to our privacy and to our information and how true it is in today's world. 

The Age of AI

 AI has been something that we have talked about fairly heavily in our class and for good reason because AI has had a huge impact on the school system and in the rest of the world recently being covered by a lot of media sources. Nowadays we have a lot more information about what AI is and how it impacts the world around us. 

AI has been used in many positive ways but has also been used in many negative ways throughout the last year that it has been popularized. AI has taken jobs and factories and has been able to work on cars and phones, and even to make production faster through machine learning. Machine learning is where an AI works with a factory machine and teaches it ways to better produce the product that they are focused on in that factory. 

One of the most significant impacts of AI has been on the way we work. Automation has been a key driver of productivity gains in many industries, allowing businesses to operate more efficiently and cost-effectively. Many businesses have used AI to better their business models and gain better information when it comes to their company and what they could be doing better with financial productivity and the money that they will gain throughout each quarter of the year. 

AI is made life very convenient you think of the artificial intelligence that is in our phones and one example is Alexa from Amazon. Alexa can do a lot for you and do it a lot faster than you could such as changing the temperature of your house, turning on the fans, and even calling someone in half the time that it would take you to dial someone up.

There have also been many ways that a high has been used for negative things the video that we watched on AI had a very interesting quote about how AI is used to take information through different websites such as Google “We thought that we were searching Google. We had no idea that Google was searching us”. AI has also been a problem by taking away jobs in factories and even in retailing with things such as self-checkout and places like McDonald's where you can order your own food without even having to talk to a human. AI also affects the way that we can be social with one another because if we don't have to communicate with one another people are not going to do it and it'll ruin the social skills that we have with one another.  

In conclusion, AI is a thing that needs to be closely monitored and looked at while professionals continue to push boundaries with what AI can do. AI should not have the power to take our jobs completely and people who are creating the AI and using it should be trying to monitor it so that it can be used more professionally and without degrading any human rights of the people that may be using it.