Crafting or Being Crafted? The Paradox of Human Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Every script written digitally is the narration of a story. The integration of the digital world in the physical and biological is inseparable. With the revolution led by the IoT (Internet of Things), our lives have transformed with an unusual dependence on digital technology. 

The dependency of humans on things that are useful and make life easier also helps to manipulate the human ability to make decisions. The way people have been doing work and the nature of their jobs are now affected by digitally written scripts. Everything can be coded and decoded, even the human mind. The machine has learnt our behavioural and emotional set of patterns, which we call artificial intelligence. Technology is carrying us, or we are carrying technology with us everywhere.

The question which arises is how much we are crafting this technology or how the digital world is creating events in our lives. Names such as Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are grand in depicting a dismal story of the future of mankind at the hands of the ever-increasing power of AI. The data relating to humans is being collected and tremendously manipulated at the other end by the service providers to increase their businesses and to control cybercrime, and most of the time the state is seen as a privacy breach in monitoring the activities of the citizens. These ideas are expressed in movies such as Algorithm regarding the unrestrained use of artificial intelligence in robots, such as Ex Machina. These movies, among others have helped to understand how the narratives of our lives’ stories have been changed tremendously.
Everything connected to the internet has its identity: an independent address, a profile, picture stories, audio and video data, a handsome amount of databases and repositories are generated of the users, and the way they interact with the world has altogether influenced the way our plot, setting and events in a story has developed. Now Bakhtinian chronotope might be an online platform where some action can take place. Digitization of information and control over things by using IOT technology has taken the world altogether to another level. Emerging technologies have completely changed the world by shifting it to automation. Our trust is also building strength in machines as much as we want to give machines human emotions to create artificial intelligence to understand humans fully.
 

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