CAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COME TO HAVE AN AUTONOMOUS EXISTENCE?

This essay addresses the topic that most challenges humanity at the moment: the speculation about whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) can acquire an autonomous existence. Its scientific relevance lies in the fact that it sheds light on the spaces that are open and already occupied by machines that perform mechanical tasks that were previously only human specificities. Added to this is the development of programs and databases that allow access to information randomly, making it seem like an autonomous intelligence, when in fact it is neither intelligent nor merely automated. Its social relevance lies in the fact that it makes it clear to the general population that no machine can replace human beings, because humans think and reflect on what they think, and their actions and procedures are governed by some kind of pathos, something that is impossible for automatons. This is a broad and in-depth bibliographical and analytical research, with the aim of summarizing a discussion that permeates the contemporary world. The fact that Artificial Intelligence selects, among a myriad of information, one that is closest to what was requested, does not make it intelligent, considering that intelligent behavior is the product of the analysis of the situation to which a value judgment is applied, not a mechanical sentence. This overvaluation of artificial thinking as if it faithfully represented the essence of human abstract thinking has as its ultimate consequence a significant, growing and constant loss of the ability to interpret objective reality, because the simplest problems cease to be analyzed and, with this, the big problems also end up being delegated to a type of agent that has no social responsibility for its decision. This represents the real danger for the future, a replacement of the technical explanation about a decision based on the values of a society for the elaboration of justifications for the action of an automaton, as if this, by itself, were capable of correcting the damage caused to those involved.