The Grassroots Path to Ensuring Ethical AI

Digital Dominoes. Hello and welcome to another episode. Today I'm with Mustafa Akyol from Turkey, and we met recently and talked about AI ethics and the philosophical aspect, a responsible ai, and I'm really looking forward to this episode to talk about it again because I'm really. Interested in these things.

But I know from our previous discussion and what I think you'll present in just a little bit, that I think you see it in a different way. That regulation isn't necessarily the thing that will make a difference. Yeah. Okay. I can start my presentation then. Okay. One of the closest approximations to perfection in nature and art is the Fibonacci Sequence, but can this harmony be achieved in AI governance or do ethical and social responsibilities exist beyond this order?

Perhaps even preparing to dethrone it. For most of history, knowledge has been a human monopoly. Information technologies from early competing to modern AI have evolved from merely storing and presenting information to analyzing and processing it. Yet these technologies were never capable of mimicking human thought or in independently generating knowledge.

Regardless. AI's growing capabilities increasingly position it as a perceived rival to humanity, and perceptions matters after all. As concept, appearances are not things in themselves. They are merely representations our minds construct according to certain laws. Our perceptions shape reality, or even creat it. This shift has the potential to lead individuals into an existential crisis, a fear of losing their uniqueness.

It may seek to reclaim controlled by imposing ethical constraints on AI given AI's unstoppable rise, particularly in knowledge related fields, eliminating it is neither feasible nor meaningful. The real challenge is fostering awareness. Many intellectuals and researchers are working on AI ethics frameworks and regulations, governments, NGOs, and international organizations are also taking steps in this direction.

Even within EU stricter, AI rules face criticism for stiffening innovation and competitiveness, and the third regulatory rollback. In the US AI regulations have recently been reversed. Meanwhile, China's Deepseek breakthrough has intensified competition prompting the US government to frame regulations as obstacles to AI dominance.

These challenges create complacency among AI developers among the root issue, a lack of grassroots engagements. Current regulations stem from intellectual efforts and institutional initiatives, but lack public demand without social pressure. Profit-driven companies view regulations as obstacles rather than necessities.

Global service provides will now be both willing or at least commercially compelled to implement regulations and eager to push for globally unified regulatory frameworks, thus with the participation of society. Corporations, intellectuals, scientists, civil society organizations, public institutions, governments, and international organizations.

But they will be conscious. Exactly. Yeah. I think that they probably think that the conscious user will. Give them more work and cost them more money. And the question is whether that's true, right? We have to find out. So from your presentation, I love the importance of public awareness and education because this is the trigger to everything and I love that you, you really link it to philosophy to like the concept of ethos in general.

I think this is the way. I think so too. It's amazing. I mean, I am a big fan of public awareness and education, but I hadn't seen it as something that can trigger actually consumer demand, though I like that direction. What are potential economic incentives for the AI companies to actually prioritize the responsible practice and that the consumers would be asking for?

Yeah, diversity and inclusion. But I think consumer demand in AI will lead to that because you're in Turkey and there's certain limit to AI tools for. People in Turkey that are just trained to think like Americans. Right. So how can collaboration like enhance the this movement for responsible development of ai?

It's reasonable that big tech could take this step? Or will it rather be upstarts like Deepseek that are kind of creating their niche and their position? Do you have some opinion? I think there is a big debates on it. How can Deepseek achieve this? I think it's not important. I think the important thing is.

And so I don't find the Deepseek as a good innovation because I don't know more about Deepseek, but it intricate the US companies. We must. Achieve more and we must beat it. They say, but we can only achieve this with de regulation, and this becomes a big problem for the world. I. I think so too. It will be interesting to see how things move forward.

Will be success. We don't know, but I think if we respect humanity, we must fight this. I think so too. We'll do everything to help that happen. Thank you so much again, and we will definitely continue in the fight in any way we can. Yeah. Okay. It's my pleasure and thank you so much. And that brings us to the end of this episode of Digital Dominoes.

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