{"id":18697,"date":"2025-07-18T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18697\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:30:09","slug":"ai-is-racing-ahead-and-we-cant-afford-to-fall-behind-justice-b-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18697\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is racing ahead \u2013 and we can\u2019t afford to fall behind: Justice B. Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 Close friends know I\u2019m new to Artificial Intelligence. Had any of \u2019em mentioned AI to me six or seven months ago, I\u2019d have thought they were referring to Allen Iverson<\/a>. They were not.<\/p>\n

As generational a sports talent as Iverson was, he\u2019s no match for what the other AI is doing elsewhere. It\u2019s made us \u2014 and I guess I should point to me here \u2014 rethink the intellectual landscape in its entirety. The technology is taking the world places that no one could have imagined in July 1985. <\/p>\n

In the past 40 years, the leap from supercomputing to high-powered software has not been as seismic as what AI, some might say it\u2019s in its infancy, has done in just a handful of years. I never saw it coming. Who did?<\/p>\n

When somebody like Bill Gates<\/a>, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, acknowledges AI surprised him, I think we can grasp the reach of it. Seismic might not describe it at all. In an interview on The New Yorker 100 podcast<\/a>, Gates said, \u201cAI is the most profound technology of my lifetime. It\u2019s just a culmination of all the things I had a chance to be involved with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Think about how Microsoft, one of the most valuable companies in the world, has shaped our society. It put information at our fingertips; its Microsoft Word<\/a> software turned the craft of writing into a less daunting task.<\/p>\n

Yet Word can\u2019t keep pace with what AI can do. Nor can medicine or other hard sciences. Need quick answers to a nettlesome question, turn to AI. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what its long-term capabilities are, but AI won\u2019t stay stuck where it is today. It\u2019s an evolving, learning technology, one that computes at speeds even Gates can\u2019t comprehend. <\/p>\n

I can\u2019t call that a bad thing. What I can call it is a scary thing, which is what the journalist who interviewed Gates did. It\u2019s like taking a trip to outer reaches of the planet without a map to follow. AI has stretched our learning curve, he said.<\/p>\n

Weigh that a moment, and then ask yourself are we preparing the Alpha Generation, Generation Z or even Boomers for what AI might unwrap in terms of knowledge. Are these generations ready for it?<\/p>\n

I mentioned this to my Gen X nephew, the father of three. None have hit their teens. I advised Amir to explore AI, have his older children explore it and share what they all learned with others. <\/p>\n

They can ill-afford to let AI run too far ahead of them. <\/p>\n

Of course, no parent\u2019s children will catch AI. They can and must understand it; they can and must use it; and they can benefit from all of its promises. They need not, however, fear it.<\/p>\n

Artificial Intelligence puts a child on the hinge point of history, because, as Gates put it, AI exceeds humankind\u2019s capabilities in many areas. It creates fresh opportunities as it shutters old ones; it finds fresh problems that need a fix.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy concern,\u201d Gates told his interviewer, \u201cis we really don\u2019t have good answers to the problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what put our society in \u201cThe Twilight Zone<\/a>,\u201d moving every scrap of knowledge we think we know onto another horizon, a horizon with no rigid borders, a horizon in which technology might do all the intellectual lifting. <\/p>\n

Justice B. Hill<\/a> graduated from Glenville High School. He spent over 25 years in daily journalism as a reporter, a copy editor and a sports editor. He taught journalism at Ohio University for six years before quitting May 15, 2019, to write and globetrot. He\u2019s doing both.<\/p>\n

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