Bombay High Court: The Bombay High Court‘s Goa bench justice, Justice Mahesh Sonak, declared on Saturday that social media and the media as a whole have evolved into weapons of mass distraction. He also voiced his serious concern over the lack of any recent steps to address it.
What did the Bombay High Court say?
Speaking to the GR Kare College of Law students in Margao town during a lecture series called “GRK-Law Talks,” Justice Sonak stated that he would rather stay “uninformed” on a number of subjects by avoiding reading or watching the news, which he believes is “better than being misinformed.”
He said, “Today, we live in an age where we adore and glorify machines like computers and smartphones that think. But we are extremely suspicious or even wary of human beings that attempt to think.”
“Artificial intelligence has its own merits, but it would be a sad day and sad world if we were to mortgage our ability to think, our ability to make intelligent and, moreover, sensitive choices, to a machine or an algorithm, however intelligent it may be,” he added. Additionally, he said, “We should not want to atrophy our thinking faculties lest there is no difference between a human being and a machine. We cannot, or at least we should not, let humankind be robbed of its humanity.”
Social Media: Wapons of mass distraction
“A few decades ago, the world was at war against WMDs—weapons of mass destruction. Today, social media or the mass media have become weapons of mass distraction, and yet there are no concerted efforts to battle them,” Justice Sonak said.
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