Artificial Intelligence: Threat or Opportunity

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the latest boom in the technology world and within a short span of time it has changed the way of working anything that is linked to life of a human being e.g. education, employment, economy, communication network, warfare, privacy, security, healthcare, ethics etc. However, the goal of artificial intelligence research is to create an artificial general intelligence (AGI), which can do any intellectual task that the human mind can perform. Despite its user-friendly software, AGI can be very harmful to humans. It may control human economic development, market processes, security policy issues and it can exploit the sources of humanity. Scientists have warned that right after the creation of an AGI, self-recursive super-intelligence AI will soon emerge, which will be an entity beyond the capabilities and performance of the smartest person ever. Chat bots could possibly reduce the need for customer service representatives but on the other hand, complex programming requirements and artificial intelligence would lead to more job creation for data science analytics and service delivery to customers. AI is an opportunity more than threat in every sector.