“Do it like a writer. Write a story that teaches children about artificial intelligence in simple terms. The book should be short and its main character should be a seven-year-old girl named Elektra.”

This is the “command” that George Efstratiadis entered into his computer, specifically ChatGPT, so that he could explain to the AI’s daughter using the AI ​​itself.

In ten seconds, the trunk of the fairy tale was ready. He then asked the app to develop the story, detailing the characters and the worlds it was set in. He instructed him to describe and depict the images he would need to “decorate” the story.

He then turned to another AI model called “Midjourney”. After downloading the descriptions he received from ChatGPT, the illustration was complete. The story was finished in about 45-50 minutes..

As for the result… “she really liked it. Especially when I explained to her how it was created. However, he also remarked to me that “the girl’s eyes are one green and one honey”, adding that “artificial intelligence, probably still studying, so he will improve,” Mr. Efstratiadis tells “K” about the reaction of his daughter.

Degree in Computer Science, graduate of Singularity University in Silicon Valley, California, which offers executive education programs and operates as a business incubator, is the author of The Metaverse: Avoiding the Dark Turn, published by Amazon. and co-founder of Toroblocks, a global player in protecting and monitoring digital files using web 3.0 technologies such as blockchain, G. Efstratiadis is well aware of the latest technological developments. And he does not hide his concern about everything that will happen next.

“AI (artificial intelligence) is something that has been present in our lives for many years. In our TVs, in our mobile phones, in our cars. However, we are now entering a new phase. Artificial intelligence is growing and expanding exponentially. What is coming will be swift, total and leveling. Soon it will be almost impossible to trace by human means. We are not talking about another “industrial revolution”. Everything will change and quickly. And no one is ready for what is to come,” he explains.

What he fears most is that information is in very few hands and that very soon we will not be able to refer to anything, because even the concept of truth will change.

“Now as we speak, AI can create text, images, sounds and videos very quickly with any content we ask it to. What if the prime minister of a country appears on video threatening another country with war? Will it be real? How will we know? And how can we be sure that another country didn’t just make it up to use as an excuse?” he wonders.

And the worst part, he says, is that most people have no idea what’s going on.

“The fate of humanity in this area is in the hands of a handful of big companies: Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple. People don’t know that 80% of jobs today will disappear in 10-15 years and what inequality and destruction this can create. The economic crisis that we are experiencing in recent years will be a paradise before this one. ChatGPT recently passed the medical exam in America. And we are talking about its trial version. Imagine what he can do in 2-3 years.”

For Giorgos Efstratiadis, his biggest concern is that children are essentially being prepared by their parents and teachers for a world that will not be in the future.

“Some of our kids’ friends will be digital. With them they will talk, with them they will share their innermost secrets and learn. There are already digital characters with hundreds of thousands of friends they interact with privately. I can’t help but think that we are sending our children to a school that prepares them for a world that won’t be there when they leave school. For example, foreign languages ​​will soon not be needed, but for now we teach children one, two and three languages. We learn things that they can now find in a second on their mobile phone. We’re really preparing them for something that’s not going to happen. This is scary”.

The shield for advancing artificial intelligence could be an imaginary pause until states set clear rules and the next generation is better prepared for what is coming.

As G. Efstratiadis also points out, “Our children should now be taught flexibility in work, empathy, emotional intelligence and the ease of new rapid learning in a variety of subjects. Abilities in general that will slowly be replaced by artificial intelligence. Learn to mentally endure the continuous change of professional orientation in this new changing environment. States will accordingly have to prepare for, among other things, the biggest wave of unemployment we have ever experienced and the social and psychological upheaval that all of this will bring.”