Dangers Of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is rapidly progressing in the world and we can see it in various fields of work. Now we even see self-driving cars and siri or Google assistant in our smartphones. Artificial intelligence portrays machines or robots with human like characteristics. Many artificial intelligence experts try to programs and develop robots or devices that can outperform human skills over whatever specific tasks they are assigning. Artificial intelligence experts are able to develop robots that can complete with human in even the intellectual activities like chess and solving math equations. Artificial Intelligence is used for many good causes including to help us make better medical diagnoses, find new ways to cure cancer and make our cars safer and many more. But we should know that any kind of technology can be misused and artificial intelligence is extremely powerful and has potential to negatively effect human race. Many robots programmed in a way to explore the world by themselves and think on its own. It is all fun and games when some people spoke about the dangers related to Artificial intelligence. Elon Musk, the CEO of space exploration company SpaceX and the CEO of Tesla spoke about it and said “It’s capable of vastly more than almost anyone knows, and the rate of improvement is exponential.” Further talking about AI, he mentioned that the rapid progress should be controlled or else these advancements can be a huge threat to our human civilization. He stated, “If AI went bad, and 95 percent of humans were killed, then the remaining five percent would be extinguished soon after. So despite its uncertainty, it has certain features of very bad risks.” It is the time for the AI experts to open their eyes and control these advancements and consider this a huge threat. Here are some of the Major Dangers of Artificial intelligence.

Job Automation

Robots are getting more and more smarter and they are capable to take over the repetitive tasks and retail jobs. If Artificial intelligence keeps growing on this rate then there will unemployment for the humans because robots can do the job more efficiently without getting tired or losing the patience. According to a study, 26 million people works with high exposure jobs that had strong chance to be transformed into automation. Employers and business will prefer one time expenditure on robots than hiring human for many tasks. Human work force is going to face a huge problem because once Artificial Intelligence develop that property then accountants, lawyers, waiter, restaurant worker, chiefs and many more jobs will be replaced by robots.

Security and privacy threats

If the jobs went to automation then there will be more risks to the privacy and security. There was a study named as “ Malicious Use of Artificial intelligence: Forecasting, prevention and mitigation”, was conducted by 26 researchers from 14 institution and it was published in February 2018. The study discussed that how artificial intelligence can threat digital security via criminals training machines to hack and socially harm humans. It will threaten physical security by non-state actors weaponizing consumer drones and it can also affect political security through privacy eliminating surveillance, profiling and repression. There is a threat that authoritarian regimes are going to use artificial intelligence for their means. Artificial intelligence is also giving rise to the hyper realistic social media personalities and that is creepy because they are difficult to differentiate from real humans. The deep fakes can harm credibility of any human especially politicians and famous personalities on earth and its getting out of hands.

Inequality

There be inequality in the world and we are going to face serious issues if robot force takes over human force. There is also a threat that the robot force will cause more gender inequality. Most of these robots are developed by Males so there is a chance that the artificial intelligence will be biased as per their programs.

Autonomous Weapons

If AI programs aren’t properly controlled then they can do some serious dangers. It might be plausible to expect that nuclear arm race will be replaced with a global autonomous weapon race. Vladimir Putin said, “Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. It comes with enormous opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.” There is also a threat that autonomous weapon might develop a mind of their own and once they are deployed, there will be difficult to Dismantle or combat. They can harm everyone severely if they aren’t controlled.

Social manipulation

Social media is very effective at Target marketing through its Autonomous powered algorithms. They know our likes and dislikes or even know who we are and what we are incredibly good at. Investigations are still trying to find the fault of Cambridge Analytica and other associated with the firm who used the data from 590 million Facebook users to try to sway the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential Elections and UK’s Brexit Referendum. The accusation says that the artificial intelligence and autonomous algorithms are behind that and if accusations are true then it illustrate the power of social manipulation through AI. Artificial intelligence can target certain individuals through identified algorithms and personal data and spread whatever information they want against that individual or companies.