The students debated whether artificial intelligence could bring humanity into an exciting future or amplify issues with equality and privacy.
The danger of artificial intelligence could pose to society.
The real dangers of artificial intelligence are often overlooked compared to the Hollywood-esque apocalypses that we are familiar with. The advent of surveillance states is one of the biggest threats to Artificial Intelligence. The ability of computers to understand and interpret the visual world, known as computer vision, allows for very little manpower to be used. In places like China, this is already being applied.
In democratic states in the west, we have large marketing companies such as Amazon and Facebook that use artificial intelligence amorally. Thanks to leaks such as Cambridge Analytica, we now know that Facebook has no problem with using data and artificial intelligence without regard to the effect on our democracy and society. Huge quantities of data and computation are needed for the development of artificial intelligence systems, and it is only available to the tech giants. Given their questionable track records, we must question how these corporations will use more advanced machine learning methods.
There is a danger to society due to ignorant people. Various police departments in the US and the UK have used Artificial Intelligence to predict crime. Such ideas would violate the principle of innocent until proven guilty and be downright discrimination. It is well known among researchers that most artificial intelligence is lazy and will only look for the simplest solution. The areas with the highest crime rates are those that are underfunded and underdeveloped. The system would only reinforce biases against the minorities if an ignorant person applied the technology to policing.
Artificial intelligence has the ability to increase inequality.
Our existing social biases are reflected in the data gathered to train artificial intelligence systems in the West. For example, computer vision systems are more likely to classify white men as doctors and white women as nurses as most images given to them reflect this Artificial intelligence is more likely to amplify prejudice and the question of how to create socially unbiased artificial intelligence remains a difficult and active area of research.
There is an issue of automation Artificial intelligence isn’t going to create mass unemployment. Computer vision systems can detect certain types of cancer, but this doesn’t mean it will replace them. Doctors that are familiar with computer vision and artificial intelligence will replace those not. As the car replaced the horse, new jobs for mechanics were created. The potential for social change is huge. Artificial intelligence has the potential to increase inequality by handing wealth to corporations and individuals.
At the end of the day, it’s a brilliant technology. It is a new technology that has not been seen before. It won’t be a terminator-style apocalypse, but it could cause social upheaval unlike any that has come before, and this article isn’t thorough in the ways that artificial intelligence can be used. Most of the pain it could cause is likely to be on those who are already marginalized.
There is an exciting future for artificial intelligence.
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which will rapidly surpass human, is the best way to describe the implications of Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI), which is best described as a single task.
When I discovered the DALL-E 2 art computer model six months ago, I remembered vividly. I tried it out over the summer, after adding myself to the waiting list. The results were consistently magnificent. I recommend giving it a try now that it is publicly accessible. DALL-E 2 is one of the first examples of how artificial intelligence can help elevate our creative and intellectual ambitions.
When discussing the threat automation poses to the world of work, it is often depicted as a danger. Universal Basic Income is becoming an attractive idea as humans are displaced from the workforce, according to many economists. I think it is only a matter of time before widespread forms of UBI are implemented, with figures such as 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang increasing public awareness. Sceptics of UBI argue that humans can adapt to any economy they find themselves in, with the Industrial Revolution serving as an example of our ability to adapt. Humans remain intellectually superior within the confines of an economy. In an ever-growing list of tasks, ANI is leagues above what any human could ever accomplish, thus disincentivizing employment of humans in many sectors.
Our greatest opportunity is to fulfill our potential, and that’s not a danger.
Labour should not be the primary source of fulfilment. UBI could give us both time and financial freedom to devote more time to our true interests. If you think you’d be bored without a job, your data could be analysed to provide your preferences for hobbies you wouldn’t have considered.
As we look towards the advent of AGI, we must recognize that we have the greatest opportunity to fulfill our potential as individuals and as a species. Stuart Russell, a computer scientist, referred to the control problem as the «control problem», and expressed concern over whether artificial intelligence can be aligned with our aims. He thinks that we need to recognize that the true objective of the machine is not necessarily what humans want it to be, even though that is what it must do. It needs to perceive inherent value in interpreting us cautiously.
The development of AGI is likely to solve many of the issues of the day as well as those that have plagued us for thousands of years. Disease, famine, climate change, nuclear hostility, and mortality are some of the problems that AGI could theoretically engineer solutions to, as a result of its vastly superior intellect and its ability to avoid infighting in our decision- making. In a race where every second counts, I believe that DeepMind should serve as a reassurance to us all, because it is in the hands of someone who is capable and well-intentioned.