Technology and Society

Humanities Lens: Artificial Intelligence and its impact on society.

Kristi Dawn Riggs
Global Perspectives
4 min readMar 25, 2022

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Technology and Society: Humanities Lens

When considering the history of AI technology and its impact on society, we can ask how AI has changed our understanding of what it means to be human. We can also consider how AI technology is used in the present day and what implications it has for the future of humanity.

AI technology has changed our understanding of what it means to be human in a number of ways. One way is by changing our understanding of intelligence. Traditionally, intelligence has been understood as something that is possessed by humans and some other animals. However, AI technology has shown us that intelligence can be artificial as well. This has implications for how we understand what it means to be human, as well as for how we understand the nature of intelligence itself.

Another way that AI technology has changed our understanding of what it means to be human is by changing the way we interact with others. Traditionally, human interaction has been based on spoken language. However, AI technology is increasingly being used to enable communication between humans and machines. This has implications for the way we interact with each other and for the way we understand what it…

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Kristi Dawn Riggs
Global Perspectives

Advisor, University Faculty Adjunct, M.A. Georgetown University.