The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence

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Grant from “Grant at Tame Your Book” have written an excellent and well researched post about the dark side of Artificial Intelligence. It has nearly a hundred references and it is very professionally written. It is called Don’t Confuse AI with a Benign Tool. With this post I just wanted to highlight this important post. Please check it out.

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My name is Thomas Wikman. I am a software/robotics engineer with a background in physics. I am currently retired. I took early retirement. I am a dog lover, and especially a Leonberger lover, a home brewer, craft beer enthusiast, I’m learning French, and I am an avid reader. I live in Dallas, Texas, but I am originally from Sweden. I am married to Claudia, and we have three children. I have two blogs. The first feature the crazy adventures of our Leonberger Le Bronco von der Löwenhöhle as well as information on Leonbergers. The second blog, superfactful, feature information and facts I think are very interesting. With this blog I would like to create a list of facts that are accepted as true among the experts of the field and yet disputed amongst the public or highly surprising. These facts are special and in lieu of a better word I call them super-facts.

30 thoughts on “The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence”

    1. I agree, Grant’s article is great and very interesting. About the energy needs of AI, most AI does not use much energy. The AI I created for robots and machines did not use more energy than a few seconds of a laptop battery and the AI on your phone only uses your phones battery a little bit. Not much energy at all. The AI that use a lot of energy are the large LLMs like chatGPT and Claude.

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  3. There is so much to contemplate about the use of artificial intelligence, a lot to read and discern. My only hope is that people, businesses… etc can and will keep its use on the benign side, so to say, as much as possible. Or at least until we, humanity figure out exactly how it can be used in a benign way, mostly if not entirely. I imagine it could be a useful tool, up to a point, or to a certain degree. But then again, people are known for turning a perfectly good tool into a weapon or some kind of master, sadly enough, instead of learning how to better or ideally master the tool. Thank you for the links, Thomas, this truly is a many-faceted topic that seems to need considering and reconsidering, all in all.

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    1. You said it exactly right “people are known for turning a perfectly good tool into a weapon or some kind of master”. As Grant was pointing out in his article, people and businesses are often not using it for good causes. And turning it into a weapon has already happened, autonomous drones, target-identification systems, and automated robotic platforms. AI can bring good and bad and if we use it badly AI can copy us and even turn against us like in the movie Terminator. Like you say “there is so much to contemplate about the use of artificial intelligence”.

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  5. Thank you, Thomas! I appreciate your linking to the information on the actual and potential harm caused by using AI.

    I’ve cited nearly 100 articles from January to March 2026. Each highlights some danger. Those articles underscore that the AI industry has defaulted to prioritizing profits over safety. I hope the definitions in lay terms, the glossary, and the many articles help people understand the risks.

    Even if the page helps only one person protect their loved ones, that will have made the effort worthwhile!

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      1. You’re welcome, Thomas. Since these are curated materials gathered with traditional research, I welcome the opportunity to share them with others. The evergreen page will stay up, and I’ll decide later whether to keep adding to the already long list of articles.

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  9. It’s an interesting and detailed article. I am not pro ask usage. What I’ve read from colleagues that’s produced by AI is poor and generally misses the usage point so it’s not relevant. I think we are heading towards a dead internet situation.

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  10. A great article Thomas. Thanks for sharing. I’ve shared around the socials. I believe there’s way to much danger to all this AI – especially replacing humans. Does anyone account for mechanical errors? This was an important question he asked, “Why would anyone trade out their God-given joy that comes from pure creativity for stolen text and pixels regurgitated by generative AI?” Because there will always be cheaters and thieves looking for the easy way out. 🙂

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    1. Thank you so much Debby. I agree, Grant wrote a great article. I agree that question is an important one. knowing that a human wrote a book, for example, is important to my enjoyment of the book, even if I can’t tell the difference (which you still can). I don’t want to live in a fake world (like in the Matrix).

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