Is Human Knowledge Coming to Its End with the Development of Artificial Intelligence?

Human knowledge about the world represents the total accumulation of cognition about the reality reached by man throughout his existence by using different forms of cognition. It is a sum of what man has realized through the history of humanity and what he has learnt during his life in any of the stated manners.

Scientific cognition is characterized primarily by a responsible application of the scientific method, while its aim is acquiring a truthful finding about the world. However, science does contain permanently given facts, but is also based on the principle of merciless criticism of the existing knowledge; the result is not only the development of the existing knowledge, but also its negation.

With the development of AI, several questions arise, two of which are crucial: what happens to scientific heritage which has not been digitized and, not included in the processing procedure of AI, and, if knowledge is delivered to us as a final product of AI, how will some new generations be able to think about it critically? To think critically about scientific findings, it is necessary to possess a certain (and sufficient) level of (scientific) knowledge in general. If with such knowledge the need ceases for man to possess it, how can the man’s need for its critical reexamination be expected to continue? In addition, the "delivery of knowledge" does not only question scientific findings as a form of human findings, but also the need for knowledge itself.

Therefore, the question arises whether the outcome of the development of AI be the disappearance of human knowledge about the world and the emergence of an exclusively mechanical interpretation of reality, which would be the bleak future of humanity, or whether AI will still result in further human emancipation and dealienation.