ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS FEARS

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Artificial Intelligence means analytics, problem solving and autonomous automation based on data, knowledge and experience. AI is an intelligent entity that is created by humans. It is capable of performing tasks intelligently without being explicitly instructed to do so. The present day pervading of AI, given how little it is noticed in everyday life, suggests that in important ways this objective has been reached. We are all familiar with applications like Google Assistant, Siri, Alexa, YouTube and so on. All these applications use AI for their functioning.

The purpose of Artificial Intelligence is shared by all the different tools and techniques that we’ve invented over the past thousand years – to simplify human effort, and to help us make better decisions. Artificial Intelligence has also been touted as our Final Invention, a creation that would invent ground-breaking tools and services that would exponentially change how we lead our lives, by hopefully removing strife, inequality and human suffering. That’s all in the far future though – we’re still a long way from those kinds of outcomes. Currently, Artificial Intelligence is being used mostly by companies to improve their process efficiencies, automate resource-heavy tasks, and to make business predictions based on hard data rather than gut feelings. As all technology that has come before this, the research and development costs need to be subsidised by corporations and government agencies before it becomes accessible to everyday laymen.

There’s no doubt in the fact that technology has made our life better. From music recommendations, map directions, mobile banking to fraud prevention, AI and other technologies have taken over. Plus point of AI is that it’s of more convenience and makes life easier. There’s a fine line between advancement and destruction. There’s always two sides to a coin, and that is the case with AI as well.  The advantages of Artificial Intelligence are as follows:

• Reduction in human error
• Available 24×7
• Helps in repetitive work
• Digital assistance 
• Faster decisions
• Rational Decision Maker
• Medical applications
• Improves Security
• Efficient Communication

Although there are several speculations on AI being dangerous, at the moment, we cannot say that AI is not at all dangerous even though it has benefited our lives in several ways. This can be a boon as well as a bane to the society. As said by Stephen Hawking “either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity.” Other than the fear of evil robots taking our space, the existing AI has also been under the radar of human fear. Let us look at some of the reasons:

• Complete relying on AI is not safe. Here one can personalize a device but not their data. Hence, every possibility arises of leaking information. Their information can be misused.

• Wrong data input may cause misinterpretation leading to losses.

• It may lead to diminution of jobs in industries. The responsibility of handling will be in single person’s hand. AI has faced the question of taking up jobs ever since it came into existence. AI has taken up a lot of tasks that were earlier carried out by people.

• The dangerous use of AI can be weaponry. AI leaders said that these threaten to become the third revolution in warfare.

•  The fear of AI reaching in the wrong hands is also prevalent. Misusing technological advancements have been there in human history. AI cannot explain why it arrived at an answer. It cannot reason nor think rationally. Once it archives the human intelligence, humans might use them to cause a negative impact. AI’s black box has been in discussions for a long time. This caters to another fear – fear of the unknown.

Advances in Artificial Intelligence will reach the superintelligence stage in a couple of years. However, starting a new technology transition has begun, and most businesses are incorporating this unique fixture. It has not only helped with better sales and forecasts but also gives companies new growth opportunities.

AI comes with its own ethical and security issues. It causes privacy concerns to businesses, which needs to be mitigated if you want the user to stay within the company for a while. You will also need to work on job reallocation so that the people who have engaged with you for years can stay happy and engaged. The idea is to transform the future of AI without harming the goodwill of loyal people. It would help if you also introduced the overall culture and organisation-level changes to build a robust AI-induced enterprise. There is no doubt that the Artificial Intelligence future is exciting and extremely promising.