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Philosopher Barba-Kay on CAPTCHA dilemma, Aristotle\u2019s good life, and how the internet is changing us \u2014 not for the better<\/p>\n

Digital technology has transformed human nature to the point that we are becoming \u201cdifferent kinds of creatures,\u201d further from Aristotle\u2019s ideal of the good life, said philosopher Ant\u00f3n Barba-Kay in a talk last week as part of the Department of Government\u2019s Vik-Bailey Lecture Series.<\/p>\n

Barba-Kay, the Robert B. Aird Chair of Humanities at Deep Springs College, has written about the dehumanizing effects of technology in his book \u201cA Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation.\u201d Although he acknowledges the benefits brought by the digital revolution, he bemoans its negative effects on human well-being so much he would like to go back in time before the arrival of the internet.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a new kind of human being is taking shape, under the presumption that what most counts about us can be quantified and codified, but that presumption, while it eliminates many forms of friction and oppression, is also progressively devastating the deepest forms of human communion,\u201d Barba-Kay said. \u201cIf it were in my power to go back in time to prevent or delay the invention of the internet, I would do so even if it meant being forever condemned to ask strangers for driving directions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The effects of digital technology on creativity, privacy, community, and well-being in general are self-evident, said Barba-Kay, and they\u2019re growing by the day as people depend more and more on smartphones and electronic tools, social media, and the internet. According to U.S. Census data from 2018, smartphones were present in 84 percent of American households and 78 percent of households owned a desktop or laptop.<\/p>\n

In 2011, the United Nations declared internet access a basic human right. Thirteen years later, it makes sense to ponder whether the internet is at odds with human flourishing, the pursuit of the highest aims of a human being, and the building of an ideal society, or utopia, Barba-Kay said in his talk, \u201cDigital Technology and the End of Human Nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIs the internet part of the good life in the way that shelter, clothing, and music are? Is a smartphone? Is social media?\u201d said Barba-Kay. \u201cIf you were asked to envision utopia, will Gmail, Tinder and Hulu have a place in it? But if you could make the choice never to use digital technology again, would you do so? The question of the transformation of our values and standards beyond our power to recognize them becomes all the more perplexing and urgent when we raise questions about human nature itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The impact of digital technologies on human nature differs from that of other new technologies (i.e., the automobile, radio, television) in that it is making humans feel alienated from their tools, said Barba-Kay. Except for software engineers and coders, most people don\u2019t know how digital technologies work. \u201cAt the utmost verge of the Enlightenment we thereby find ourselves at the beginning of a new Dark Age in which our material circumstances will become more and more opaque to us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As digital technologies develop, humans are challenged to prove their humanity not only to themselves but also to the same digital technologies developed by humans. Barba-Kay pointed to the use of CAPTCHA, (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), a test to determine whether the user is a human to deter bots and spam. For Barba-Kay, CAPTCHAs call on humans to perform acts of humanity online, but it has become a parable of how human nature is being threatened by advances in digital technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe test initially involved a transcription of squiggly letters into a box, if you\u2019re old enough to remember,\u201d he said. \u201cBut as the bots got better, the letters had to get squigglier. In a 2014 study, Google discovered that AI was already able to solve 99.8 percent of the puzzles; meanwhile, the letters had gotten so squiggly that only 33 percent of humans could solve them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe point of CAPTCHA is to test for universal humanity in a manner that is rote, unambiguous, and in no way context-dependent,\u201d Barba-Kay said. \u201cYet tasks that are rote, unambiguous, and in no way context-dependent are precisely the sort of thing that automation does best. Which is why each time we succeed in establishing that we are human through CAPTCHA we take one more step toward obsolescence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barba-Kay worries that rapid developments in digital technology are affecting key aspects of the human experience: their sense of community, time, and reality, and more broadly what it means to be human and what the purpose of life should be.<\/p>\n

In a discussion following the talk, audience members peppered the speaker with questions. Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and chair of the Government Department, asked whether there were similar cries over the end of human nature with the invention of the automobile, the building of the transcontinental railroad, and other technological breakthroughs. For Barba-Kay, the effects of the digital revolution are qualitatively different. \u201cIt\u2019s transformative to have something that doesn\u2019t take any time to go from A to B in the way that the railroad did,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, who was moderating, dropped a question to Barba-Kay at the end of the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI received a paper from a student that I thought was pretty good,\u201d said Sandel. \u201cI called the student in and asked the student about it. The student denied that it was written by ChatGPT, and I wondered after we spoke, which should worry me more: whether he had cheated and lied about it, or whether he had come to write like ChatGPT. What do you think?<\/p>\n

With a response that summed up his views on the effects of digital technology on human nature, Barba-Kay said, \u201cThe latter.\u201d<\/p>\n

For first-year Yona Sperling-Milner, the talk helped her think more critically about the role that electronic devices play in people\u2019s lives; not only as time-suckers, but mostly as an activity that could be detrimental to her purpose in life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought that everything the speaker was saying rang very true to my experience with technology, especially as a young person,\u201d said Sperlce: ing-Milner. \u201cIt made me think that the negative association with cellphones might not only just be, \u2018Oh, this feels like a waste of time,\u2019 but somewhat deeper in the sense that it might impact me and my striving for what he was calling the good life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: <\/em>Liz Mineo, Harvard Staff Writer<\/p>\n

https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2024\/04\/are-you–human-select-all-that-apply\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Image: <\/em>Keynote speaker Ant\u00f3n Barba-Kay with Professor Michael Sandel looking on. <\/em>Photo by Dylan Goodman<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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