AI: Existential risk and future of humanity

AI: Existential risk and future of humanity

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Introduction

Humans have always faced menace to their global survival where technology has become a rat race. The greatest risk humans face is from their civilization progress and scientific innovations. Over time, humans have aggrandized every field from developing different technologies, nuclear weapons to engineered organisms. With time and technology, we are responsible for the threats caused to every species, global warming, and soaring global population. However modern era technologies act as a boon and bane to the global world causing a threat to humankind in the contemporary world. With technological change, let's see if it is a threat to the global world.

A New Era Of AI Risk

Are super intelligent machines the worst or best thing ever happened to humankind? This has always been a question in global society since the 1940s when scientist Alan Turning started believing that there would come a time in the future when machines could have a huge impact on human life. We are living in a part of a faction of technologies, policy-makers, and academics with a common interest in a globally useful artificial intelligence(AI). The field of AI is emerging rapidly in the 20s world.

The upcoming years will likely see significant growth. The AI will benefit all fields for medical advances, services, scientific discoveries, and many more. The recent AI systems are confined applications designed to implement a well-defined problem in a single domain. The AI bots could make human life's easier and yet seem to be a threat to the emerging world.

Risk encountered by humans through AI

Artificial Intelligence can bring a dramatic change to the world and humans to improve the efficiencies at the workplace and reduce human efforts with the help of machines.

Threats to humans in a global world where they face certain risks:

  • Lethal sovereign weapons
  • Technological dependencies
  • Automation
  • Job Replacement
  • Economical living
  • Unpredictable behavior
  • Political instability
  • Societal and ethical impacts
  • Medical

The transformative crash of artificial intelligence in society will bring legal, political, economical implications to the community. While there's still a debate about the issues no one has an idea about the unforeseen issues when new technologies will be introduced. Another issue endures by AI is, it doesn't become proficient at performing its task where it is designed to perform its job by crossing the legal and ethical boundaries. Where the motive of AI should be to benefit the human. The task done by the machines will be disastrous yet effective, then it would bring negative impacts on society. AI intelligence algorithms are powered by data.

The more the data is collected the less privacy a human will have which will bring a huge threat to the private life of people. AI could potentially replace 7 million jobs in the world which will bring an economical breakdown for humans. The speech recognition AI machines like Alexa and Siri have already occupied everyone's life causing humanity to lose the skills to learn which we may one day regret. Machines will make decisions that we may not understand but have to live with it anyway. They learn from our worst habits. The super intelligent machine will never understand what humans wish for.

Conclusion

Is Artificial Intelligence an End to the human race? We have little idea what the technology might turn into and the after-effects of every super intelligent machine. We need to think and question ourselves before developing and bringing new technologies into the world. We need to analyze if we are safeguarding our future and put our lives in the right hands of the technologies. Superintelligence is a challenge to humanity for which the world is not yet ready to face the threat of bots. End of the day, machines can never be humans and should not be given the power to wipe out our race. We need to think about it now, what might go wrong in future technologies to avoid potentially disastrous mistakes in the future.

Few Companies working on AI

acusensus.com - Acusensus is an online platform for AI authorized solutions and advanced imaging techniques to help communities across the globe to adopt positive and sustainable change.

airtax.com.au- Airtax is a mobile platform for users to lodge their income tax and BAS in time. It gives a gig to the economy and provides a complete & secure solution for taxing services for all types of working individuals.

agrinous.com.au- AgriNous is a cloud-based platform for concurrent processing of livestock sales. Provides a service to stock Agent and Saleyard operators within the field and back office capabilities with multi-tablet synchronization.

lgseaweed.com- Algseaweed is an online food product platform with sustainable and quality seaweed bringing flavours, nutrition and convenience to the everyday kitchen world.

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