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Artificial Intelligence

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What is artificial intelligence? Should humanity be concerned?
There are many interpretations of Artificial intelligence. Merriam Webster’s online dictionary defines artificial intelligence as “A branch of computer science, dealing with the simulation of intelligent behaviour, in computers or the capability of a machine, to imitate intelligent human behaviour” (Artificial Intelligence, 1828). With technology continually progressing and embedding itself into today’s population, from Siri on iPhone, voice active web search on Google and self-driving cars by Tesla to Virtual intelligence (V.I.) and Artificial intelligence (A.I.) programs and experiments, through government or private research agencies [Facebook, Machine Intelligence Research …show more content…

From an ethical perspective. Giving control to weaponized Artificial intelligence is allowing robots, with little to no human emotions and morals, to make a life or death choice, without the supervision of a human being, that can affect a living person or population (Bostrom and Yudkowsky, 2017). Moreover, militarised A.I. will give nations with a high financial ranking, the lead in a global arms race, whereby nations with an economic advantage will compete to create weaponized artificial intelligence (Conn, 2017). This will grant them the power to occupy countries with lower economic standing and execute plans that may affect millions of people’s lives. In a communist country that can work to humanities disadvantage, for instance, Roderigo Duarte’s war on drugs in the Philippines, or Hitler’s Holocaust whereby one person was able to almost destroy an entire race of humanity. Accordingly, militarised A.I. are also capable of surveillance, thereby diminishing the public’s right to privacy exponentially (Yampolskiy, n.d.). Consequently, artificial Intelligence will also be limited to the creations of mankind and relating errors, until such a time when an A.I can perform upgrades on themselves (generating a new problem in itself) until such an occasion, however, it is still a possibility that human related errors will occur. Furthermore, it won’t be long until weaponized artificial

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