(Minghui.org) Recently, I witnessed an incident that gave me a new understanding of how practitioners should use technology, especially artificial intelligence (AI).
One day before Minghui published Master’s new article “Why Shen Yun Can Save Lives,” I was at the home of a practitioner who wanted to prepare content related to a Dafa project for a program focused on traditional culture. She intended to extract stories with moral messages and themes of traditional values from one of the old classical books. However, since the book was quite large and had many pages, it was very time-consuming for her to find those concepts within its text.
So, she wanted to use AI to accomplish the task. I was beside this practitioner, doing the standing exercises. During the hour and a half that I was practicing, I saw her struggling with the AI prompt — no matter how clearly she told it what she wanted or explained the task, the AI kept giving irrelevant and nonsensical results. Unlike other times when she easily got answers from AI for things like translation or technical work, this time it was as if she was dealing with a dull-minded being. In the end, after spending more than an hour and a half, she gave up in frustration.
The next day, Minghui published Master’s recent article. The following day, while I was meditating, this sentence from that article suddenly appeared in my mind:“But people have continued down the slippery slope of overvaluing technology at the expense of traditional virtues.” (“Why Shen Yun Can Save Lives”)
Immediately this sentence connected with the incident I had witnessed two days earlier. I came to understand that Master had already given the answer in that article. My personal realization was that we cannot expect that something (technology and AI) which was developed “at the expense of traditional virtues” to truly assist us in creating something for promoting traditional virtues.
We can use technology and AI to make our work easier, speed up our projects, and increase efficiency; however, we cannot expect AI to take our place in creating works or saving sentient beings, nor can it fulfill our mission for us. It must be us who take responsibility for directing and managing our work — not AI deciding and thinking on our behalf.
Recently, I have also noticed another strange phenomenon among new practitioners. One of the new practitioners, who had just obtained the Fa, asked AI during a conflict what her problem was and what attachments she should let go in that situation. This might seem unbelievable or even amusing to veteran practitioners, but with the advancement of today’s society and people’s growing reliance on technology and AI, many have gradually begun to hand over responsibility for their actions — and even their thinking — to AI.
If we don’t let go of attachments such as laziness, the pursuit of having things done, the mindset of seeking results with minimal effort, or focusing only on the outward form of things while ignoring their inner essence, we may easily become influenced and interfered with by technology and AI.
Above is my personal understanding. If there is anything inconsistent with the Fa, please kindly point it out.
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