This illustration photograph shows screens displaying the logo of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company that develops open-source large language models, and the logo of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT in Toulouse, southwestern France, on Jan. 29, 2025. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images
Studies examining the effect of artificial intelligence (AI) on a myriad of human activities are now commonplace, exploring how the seemingly unstoppable advance of the technology into our lives has affected everything from plagiarism rates to employment, from medical diagnoses to driving.
Now, a new study from Charles Darwin University examines the impact it has on our humanity and concludes that it’s threatening human dignity on a global scale.