Is Artificial Intelligence A Threat To Humanity?

Artificial Intelligence is an interesting topic which growing all over the world and can easily be sending people down rabbit holes trying to figure out whether this is something that impacts our lives positively or negatively. AI is around everywhere and can easily be taken and granted and not be seen impacting our lives. AI is something which is used every single day without people even knowing, from the moment people check their phones, to Netflix or Youtube recommending what to watch. The global AI market had been set to grow 54% every single year according to Statista, but what exactly is Artificial Intelligence?

AI is a computer program which could learn and think on its own.

There are three main types of AI:

Weak AI - Focused on one task and cannot perform beyond its limitations (In daily life).

Strong AI - Can learn and understand the intellectual task of humans (Striving to reach).

Super AI - Can perform any tasks better than human (still a concept).

What are the Strengths of AI?

AI has many capabilities to help the world reach certain goals such as:

• Reducing Human Error

• Zero Risks

• Available 24x7

• Digital Assistance

• New Inventions

• Unbiased

• Perform Repetitive Jobs

• Daily Applications

• Used where humans are unsafe.

Even though AI can assist humanity in many situations, it also has its downsides, including:

• Expensive

• No Creativity

• Unemployment

• Make Humans Lazy

• No Ethics

• Emotionless

• No Improvement

Now we get to the question, is artificial intelligence a threat to humanity? Well, at the end of the day AI is a technology which can be used for many great things but may not have the ability to replace humans. Even though AI may take over jobs where humans are not needed and jobs that need to be done repetitively, it does not have human capabilities of thinking outside its restricted programming. It will only be able to stick to what it does. It won't have the ethical or emotional capabilities of people.

The bottom line is that AI may pose a threat to humanity if we are not careful enough about how we use it and how we introduce it to the real world. However, in the near future, we may have to learn how to work hand-in-hand with it, even during its developmental process.