For me, AI is not trustworthy, at least in the areas where I use it on a daily and intentional basis. For example, when we ask an AI a question, the AI’s answer is sometimes 100% a lie, or often contains a partial but crucial error. Despite this, there are many people who believe these AI answers without question and disseminate them to society as if they were true. Such behavior can be harmful to both the individual who disseminates them and our society.
However, even if AI is such an unreliable tool, it is also true that many people are compelled to use it for a variety of reasons.
So, at this point (May 2025), how should we deal with such an imperfect AI? I will write my own answer based on my own experience.
I have been using several well-known translation softwares on a daily basis for over five years. I use them to translate English to Japanese or Japanese to English, and instead of leaving the entire process to AI, I use them to verify and improve the texts I have translated myself. The AI translations are generally correct, but sometimes contain critical errors, such as missing parts including omitting important parts, or, in rare cases, translations that are the exact opposite of the original meaning. It is my feeling that these defects have not improved much since I started using these software over 5 years ago.
By repeatedly encountering such glitches, I realized that it is humans that program AI. Unfortunately, none of us can be perfect. We may cheat when faced with something unfavorable, or we may make a wrong decision due to lack of knowledge. That is human nature. This is just my guess, but AI, especially the AI translation softwares I use, seems to be programmed to omit things if there is no certainty, or to make sentences make sense in a formal way. In other words, the “omissions” mentioned above are “cheat” due to a lack of certainty, and translations with the exact opposite meaning are mistakes due to a lack of knowledge. By looking at AI in this way, I can overlap how AI have been build up and my current perceptions of its limitations to some extent.
So how should we interact with AI that possesses such a certain human nature?
That answer is, when using AI, especially in business and other areas where responsibility is involved, you should limit it to areas where you can judge for yourself whether the answers given by AI are right or wrong. Trusting AI’s answers in other areas is like trusting what an expert, who is a complete stranger, says. Just because they are an expert does not mean they always tell the truth.
Science continues to make advances. We tend to have an illusion that these advances, including AI, will free us from a lot of tasks, but is that true?
I strongly feel that for the society in which we live to be decent, it will continue to be essential for individuals to continue making steady efforts and studying so that we do not have to leave decisions to others.
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Next English article is ~Why does society need to be fair?~
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こんにちは。
Wall Egg and Seeds というサイト名は、ある日本の作家が海外で行ったスピーチで「Wall(壁）」と「Egg(卵)」という言葉を用いて強大な権力と弱者との関係を表現をしたことをヒントにして、それらの言葉と「Seeds(種)」を組み合わせたものです。
私にとって、「壁」は民主主義を無視する強大な権力です。「卵」は民主主義の名のもとに民主主義を勝ち取り、守ろうとする個人です。
多くの人たちは「壁」にぶつかったところで「卵」は割れるばかりで「壁」はびくともしないと感じていて、「壁」の側に立つ人たちが多く存在する一方で、「卵」の側に立とうとする人はどんどん減っているように見えます。このままでは、本当の民主主義は、実現するどころか、ただの理想論としてどこかに追いやられてしまうような気がしてなりません。
多くの大人たちが民主主義について口をつぐむようになってしまったた今、一人でも多くの人たちが民主主義の大切さについて考え、その実現のための一歩を踏み出すきっかけの一つとなることを期待して、「Wall Egg and Seeds」を開設しました。つたない文章ですが、よろしくお願いします。
「Wall Egg and Seeds」が公平な社会の実現の「種」になることを祈って。
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Hello,
The name of this site, Wall Egg and Seeds, was inspired by a speech that a Japanese writer gave abroad in which he used the words “Wall” and “Egg” to describe the relationship between the powerful and the weak, and I combined these words with “Seeds”.
For me, the “wall” is the mighty power that denies democracy. The “egg” is the individual who tries to win and protect democracy in the name of democracy.
Most people feel that when “egg” hit the “wall,” she or he just breaks and the “wall” doesn’t take damage , and while there are many people who stand on the side of the “wall,” the number of people who try to stand on the side of the “egg” seems to be seriously decreasing. If this situation continues, I cannot help but feel that true democracy, far from being realized, but will be relegated somewhere as mere idealism.
Now that many adults have become silent about democracy, I have started “Wall Egg and Seeds” in the hope that it will be an opportunity for as many people as possible to think about the importance of democracy and take a step towards realizing it. I am not very good at writing, but thank you for reading.
May “Wall Egg and Seeds” be a “seed” for the realization of a fair world!
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