What Is AI?
AI is a developing technology that engineers have been trying to figure out for years. AI stands for artificial intelligence. With artificial intelligence, machines and robots will be able to think on their own. This means they will have nobody controlling them and they will control themselves. Most likely, when they are created, they will be created for a purpose and will have a task.
AI Is Close.
Every day new technology is being designed and created, and every day the fears of future technology worries people. CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk says "I'm very close to the cutting-edge of AI, and it scares the hell out of me"(Kevin Dickson). Recently we have been developing AI and becoming very close to implementing it into our society. When we're this close to having AI in our everyday life, I get this mixed emotion of excitement and fear and it sounds like even the ones creating it do too.
Artificial Intelligence Technology.
Is It Safe?
AI is an insanely cool technology that has been in the works for many years. Although the question that crosses my mind and many others is " is it safe?" Could AI turn on us and take out humanity? Will they work so hard for their set goal that they destroy the world in the process?
For example, lets say a business tells an AI robot to produce as many pencils as possible. That AI unit will begin creating pencils and it will make an insane amount of pencils and be great for the company. Although the AI robot was only told to create pencils and as many as possible. As humans, we know when to stop, but an AI unit won't. The AI unit will keep making pencils and use all of the material in world to create pencils. Since pencils are typically made out of wood, the AI will wipe out all the trees in the world first to create those pencils. Without trees humans won't be able to live and humanity will fade slowly as we all lose the ability to breathe.
I did research to figure out exactly what the AI's would be used for. AI is planned to be used in many things such as self driving cars, manufacturing and production, etc. Although, these jobs are not my worst feared uses for AI. I am worried about the use of AI in the military. Thankfully after researching the uses AI in the military, it was said that they would not be giving the AI's weapons, but just supporting human soldiers. While this is far better than handing an AI unit a weapon, there are still worries about AI in the military and how they might react around all of the weapons.
Lastly, we have to worry about the type of people that AI will be available too. AI can be a very helpful technology, but in the wrong hands it can be insanely dangerous. If AI gets in the hands of the wrong people, many people could be hurt or die.
Bad artificial intelligence robot is walking on the spaceship corridor. Horror movie scene of the future.
Should We Use AI?
After considering all of the worries and concerns of implementing AI into our society I feel that eventually AI should be used. We may develop AI to a point that is not so dangerous and we may get rid of all of the worries. Although, for now it's scary to think about the possibilities of AI and the destruction it could cause.
Are you scared of AI? Do you think we should use AI in society today?
-Quinn W.
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Quinn, nice job with the design of your post. Do you think that your pencil example is only a problem if the humans designing the AI don't think about that issue and program it to know when to stop? Certainly humans are imperfect though, so that's always a concern.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the pencil example could be solved after writing a super long task that has many rules and such for the AI to solve. Although that written task would have to be perfect, and as you said humans are definitely not perfect.
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