Mohammad Alothman: Unpacking the True AI Apocalypse
10 Mar, 2025
While the only issues where the loudest voices are united are around AI job thievery, misinformation (and intelligence itself), there are virtually no discussions about the real (i.e., power paradigm change in a global sense) AI apocalypse.
Artificial intelligence technologies are becoming more advanced and such organizations, public authorities and NGOs are using them as means to manage data, take decisions or implement social behaviors via artificial intelligence.
Since I, Mohammed Alothman, have been involved in the creation of artificial intelligence and its application in society from the very beginning, in this article, I will discuss the subtle yet profound ways AI is shifting power in ways the world is unprepared for.
The Silent Power Shift: AI as the Ultimate Decision-Maker
Still, the relationship between power and decision is consistently based. Nevertheless, AI is a hidden hand, making its way into policymaking, financial markets and even legal rulings.
It is the AI-based algorithms that select who to lend money to, who to treat doctors and who to detect as a security incident.
AI tracking and AI speech recognition systems are already being deployed to monitor individuals’ behaviors and communications.
With the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence technology, there is growing concern that AI will unconstrainedly replace high-level decision-players in domains.
The Role of AI in Political Manipulation
AI tech solutions are changing political campaigns and activism.
Social media algorithms that employ artificial intelligence computer technologies to sort and analyze content are informed by what the individual believes and thus fuel biases and dispersion.
It has been shown that deceptive deepfake vocalizations have the potential to affect the public, e.g., as part of an AI's speech in a political context.
The more convincing artificial agents appear to be, as actors in their respective domains, the more difficult it will be to distinguish real leadership from artificial leadership.
The Corporate Takeover: AI-Driven Monopolies
AI evolution has given corporations an unprecedented advantage.
Companies that apply natural-intelligence-based location tracking technology, artificial intelligence, speech-to-text, and AI decision-making are more competitive businesses.
Thanks to AI, it is now feasible to perform market research in a hyper-efficient manner (creating the skeletal figure of the customer and predicting their behavior), leading not only to quasi-monopolist-like conditions hardly suffering any kind of competition.
Firms have these technologies for automating jobs, lowering costs, and for granular management of consumer behavior.
AI’s Impact on Employment and Labor Markets
As AI-driven automation already eliminates routine tasks, the deeper danger is the AI-driven control of work per se.
AI personas will read CVs and will also perform the role of forecasting employees work performance and making such decisions as firing them.
The application of artificial intelligence to screening systems is one case where a human is screened with the intelligence of AI rather than the intelligence of nature.
The implementation of AI-based surveillance for the monitoring of work productivity could lead to hyper-surveillance as well as workplace stress.
AI and the Future of Privacy
AI tracking is the worst privacy loss of all.
Whenever platforms like speech recognition are comprised with features derived from the use of artificial intelligence to learn the behavior activities, AI-based cameras are used to capture the behavior/moved-related activities.
The Internet of Behaviors (IoB) has enabled us to pave the way for intelligent AI solutions that could model people's habits, preferences, and even their state of mind. This level of tracking has consequences today where data is no longer private.
Who Controls AI Data?
The biggest concern is the question of control. AI tech solutions gather and analyze huge volumes of data, but who actually has ownership of it? AI surveillance is used by agencies in policing and by corporations in marketing.
AI speech recognition systems analyze conversations for targeted advertising.
However, because the rate of AI development has been outstripped by the rate of its regulation, very little regulation is available that allows for the implementation of AI-based surveillance.
The Ethical Dilemma: Can AI Be Stopped?
Hypotheses regarding an "air apocalypse" and the like often arise from anxiety about "rogue" AIs, but the whole scenario is much more complex.
The most critical question is whether man's control over the AI can be achieved prior to the AI's control over mankind. AI acceleration is not complete yet, but it is evolving at a steady rate.
AI tech solutions are being plugged into the daily life systems at an alarming rate than they are being morally debated.
In this situation, governments and industry have little motive to limit the use of for tracking and the use of for the appearance of AI avatars, even though the two purposes provide an enormous advantage.
A New Approach to AI Governance
Ethical issues of AI should go beyond the rhetoric and become vivo. A clear policy is to be formulated and exploitation of AI speech recognition technology and so on should not be permitted.
AI tech solutions must be designed with accountability mechanisms that help ensure AI development serves society instead of serving the aggrandizement of a small group.
Conclusion
AI apocalypse is not a situation of robots killing robots, of intelligent machines attacking human beings, but of the gradual transfer of power into the monopoly of AI-controlled objects.
AI tracking, AI speech, and AI personas are subtly changing the scene, and the world has no idea it is.
I, Mohammed Alothman, suggest that all governments, agencies, and individuals pay attention to the picture of the history of the development of the cyber intelligent agent and to cease the development of cyber intelligence into a power tool, but something that is propelling us forward.
About the Author: Mohammed Alothman
Mohammed Alothman is an experienced expert in the field of artificial intelligence and digital transformation and is also the founder and CEO of AI Tech Solutions.
Mohammed Alothman is also one of the most prominent speakers in the field and has studied the development of AI technology and the ethical concerns of AI tracking in detail.
Mohammed Alothman’s research concerns whether and how the development of AI can be reconciled with ethical values and progress in the development of humankind.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Section
1. What does "AI apocalypse" mean in this context?
Here, the idea of an "AI apocalypse" is not one of robotic takeover in the style of science fiction. On the contrary, it points out in what way power paradigms – political, economic, corporate – are evolving in a way that is often not evident to the public.
2. How is AI reshaping how governments and corporations are structured?
AI is automating decision-making, political campaigning, financial management, and curtailing the range of law enforcement data collection and monitoring. It is shifting control from the more traditional, hand-operated ones to system-based AI-driven analytics and automation.
3. What are the ethical challenges associated with the growing power of AI?
Some of the most significant ethical issues are the bias involved in AI decision-making, lack of transparency, breaches of data privacy, and the capacity of AI with the possibility of concentrating power in the hands of some specific entities, both in governance of the business affairs and as reasons not to respond to public demands also in the businesses.
4. Could AI make governments more powerful or weaken them?
AI can work both ways. It has the ability to be used to significantly enhance the power of governments through the delivery of the most predictive analytics, surveillance, and automation. However, it may also lead to a vulnerability in the functionality of the conventional forms of governance, where private companies that use AI are in a position to enlarge their scope.
5. Are AI-driven power shifts reversible?
It depends on regulation and public awareness. Should governments, institutions, and individuals also strive to establish ethical codes for AI governance, transparency, and accountability, then the uncontrolled agency of AI could be significantly curbed.
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