Human Intelligence and Technology on Space Odyssey and Wargames

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The films 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)  and Wargames (1983) center on the overarching themes of philosophy of technology and human Intelligence. The two films are important in explaining the abilities of human Intelligence to make and control technology. In modern society, technology has been glorified to the extent of replacing basic human Intelligence. 2001: Space Odyssey presents a scenario of how humans have trusted and relied on new technologies and the upheavals resulting from overdependence such as death (Wolfram n.p). While Stanley Kubrick, the director of Space Odyssey, seems to enhance our appreciation of human perceptual faculties, he sets a challenge for humans to think beyond the conventional human Intelligence and ideas that disconnect us from our everyday experience the natural world through technology (Stoehr 119). The Wargames film shows a young and intelligent boy, David, whose tactics in hacking computers put him in trouble with the military soldiers for almost causing what could have been world war III. The two films leave us with a question on the implications of new technologies on human Intelligence and the possible dangers of augmenting our perception and consciousness. Based on the film Wargames, Selinger, and Engstrom (639) perceive technology as ways in which humans experience the natural world and explain that the computational theory of mind (CTM) seeks to convert the poorly understood human mind and consciousness into numbers, interactive algorithms, and codes. Drawing concepts from Space Odyssey and Wargames films, this paper analyzes the risks of replacing human Intelligence with computers and how human Intelligence can be a disaster to the same. With so much emphasis and investments in technology, this paper offers an insight into how human adventures and efforts of making life more comfortable can be deleterious. 
Human Intelligence and Technology
Artificial intelligence continues to enjoy widespread adoption in various industries as sophisticated technologies threaten to replace highly skilled humans through mimicking human characteristics. Over the decades, AI systems have become highly advanced in the invention of self-driving cars, autonomous weapons, and robotics which offer numerous benefits to humans. This has led many people to believe that an artificial intelligence explosion will solve many of the current global problems such as poverty, disease, and war. In many cases, these super-intelligent systems outperform humans in various tasks rendering them redundant. However, there is a downside, and the rise of these technologies can be compared to a double-edged sword.
On the one hand, they promise immense benefits to human society while also posing significant risks to humanity. For instance, Autonomous weapons pose the risk of causing mass casualties as they can be designed in a way that makes it almost impossible to be turned off. These systems can be performing beneficial tasks but can simultaneously develop a destructive method to execute it and, in the process, prevent any human who attempts to sto...