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Jornal Escolar AE Muralhas do Minho | 2024-2025

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Technology: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Raphael Stamile, 10.º C | 27-02-2025

Ray Kurzweil, a computer scientist, suggested that the brain will connect to online AI to become a “hybrid of biological and non-biological thinking”. At a conference, he once stated that technology is a double-edged sword.

I agree with Mr. Kurzweil’s statement about technology being a “double-edged sword”, but he uses this metaphor to justify the evolution of AI and tech in general and its dangers. I am on the other side of the spectrum.

Yes, the evolution of technology has many upsides, like the advancement of health care and medical industry in general, the accessibility of information – especially free information –, the progression of non-pollutant tech and many more. But, unfortunately, almost nothing in life is always good.

We have seen throughout the last 10+ years the dependence of younger people on technology and the increasing numbers of dopamine addiction related diseases, like ADHD, for example. Technology also gives more means for governments to control the population through financing online fake news and contents on social media apps, like TikTok and Instagram. And last, trying to merge the human brain with computers, creating another species is, of course, very dangerous, seen as it would result in the end of human race.

In my opinion, the rapid evolution of technology and AI has its upsides, but the downsides are far too dangerous to be ignored.