Artificial Intelligence: Aid or Threat to Humanity?

This assignment delves into the concept of artificial intelligence, its advantages, and disadvantages. It discusses how AI can aid humans in various aspects while also posing threats to their mental abilities and overall well-being. The report concludes that AI is both a threat and an aid for humanity's future, highlighting the need for a balanced approach to harness its benefits without compromising human capabilities.

How could artificial
intelligence influence the future

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
CONCEPT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE........................................................................3
PURPOSE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE........................................................................4
IMPORTANCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE..............................................................4
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. ................5
THE FUTURE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR HUMANS......................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Artificial intelligence is the ability of the machine or a computer system which allow to
learn and think. This is the study of field which tries to make the computers smart. In artificial
Intelligence, the humans are using and doing their work with the help of machine, and here the
the mental facilities are then removed (Baum, 2015). In the following report, the essay is to be
written on Is Artificial Intelligence a threat or an aid to the future of humanity. This report will
mainly emphasizes on the concept of Artificial Intelligence along with their advantages and
disadvantages. Importance of Artificial Intelligence along with its uses in the society by humans
are to be explained in the current report.
MAIN BODY
CONCEPT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Artificial Intelligence is all about creating those machines which are much more
intelli9gent than humans and which act as like the humans such as robots. This is the area of
computer science which design the machines for speech recognition. This is the machine which
is created and structured in such a manner that all these machines can act, think and able to work
like a human being with the same capability. Artificial Intelligence has become very crucial for
the daily life of the human beings. This has changed the life of each individual because this is
now used in the wide area and in the daily works. In Present time, all the peoples of the society
are living in the world of machines (Brundage and et.al., 2018) . Each individual is depend on
the machines for every work. Everyone in the society is surrounded by the applications of the
artificial intelligence. There are many machines which are to be used by the humans and by
which they are living their life in an effective and flexible manner. Some of the artificial
Intelligence machines which are working on the smart technology are Television, Air
conditioners, video games, traffic lights, cameras, refrigerators and medical equipments, etc., all
these machines are very useful for the humans in their daily life, as without these they can't even
spend one day. Artificial Intelligence is the branch of computer science which is involved in

creating and producing the computer machines which all react like the humans (Calo, 2017) .
This is to make the machine that much capable that they can take the decisions around it and
understand the language of the humans and become that much capable of sensing all over the
World around it. Along with this, Nowadays, the artificial Intelligence machines are now
working more and have more computational power than the human brain. These machines are
now works millions times faster than the working capability of humans.
PURPOSE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The main aim or goal of Artificial Intelligence is to create or develop technology which
allows the developed machines, robots and computers to function and work in an intelligent and
effective manner. Also, to fulfil all those expectations of an organisation which the human can be
fulfilled by the human beings.
IMPORTANCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Artificial Intelligence has become the important part of the human's life. This has reduces
the efforts of humans. In many areas the artificial intelligence is used in order to bring accuracy
in the work and achieve the better outcomes. Artificial Intelligence as brings the idea of error
free world. Thus, Artificial Intelligence as introduce their machines in all the sectors in order to
decrease the efforts of the humans and provide the faster and accurate results (Ghahramani,
2015) . The importance of AI is to be outlined by elaborating the certain areas where the
Artificial intelligence is used, and these are mentioned as below -
1. AI is to be used in the banking sector such as to used the machine in the financial and
bank system. The AI is to be used in this area just to perform the various activities in the
bank. There are many different section in which the Artificial Intelligence can be used
such as money investing in stocks, to operate the financial operations, managing banking
properties, maintaining the database and records of the staff members of the bank, etc. By
the use of AI in the bank result in the customer satisfaction as by this they can be able to
handle their clients and response their customers faster.
2. Artificial Intelligence is also used in medical science, this has change the phase of
medical by giving the incredible value. The AI is to be used in the medical just to create
the virtual personal health care assistant. Also, the AI is use in the medical for doing
research or for evaluating the reports of humans for their body check. Also the
appointments are to fixed by using the computer machines, by this they can easily

schedule the appointments of the humans in hospitals (Hamet and Tremblay, 2017) . The
medical check-up is also done by the use of these artificial intelligence machines such as
ECG, EEG, MRI, Angiography, sonography, etc.
3. Artificial Intelligence is also used in Air Transport, which is one of the systematic
transport. In today's time, the use of AI has increased so much that air transport cannot
survive without the sue of AI. The machines which is just used to operate and run the
aeroplane by performing the different operations on machine is all done by the use of AI.
Mainly all the things which are to be used to control the air transportation is depend on
the technologies of Artificial Intelligence (Jarrahi, 2018) . Along with this, there are
many different machines and software which are to be structured to provide all the
passengers the better and effective flights by which they feel free to travel in planes.
4. AI is also having used in gaming zone, there are many games in which the updates are
coming on daily basis, by which the people who are game lovers, are getting more games
and they are playing that interestingly.
5. AI is also to be used in the Educator sector, as most of the students are now learning and
gaining the education by having the smart classes by their tutors. The computers and
projectors are to be used by the teachers to educate their students so that they can easily
able to learn and apply the things practically (Jiang and et.al., 2017) . The AI has also
bring the smart content and the new method of personal development for the educators by
virtual global conferences. Along with this, the tutors are also teaching their students
through online classes.
Thus, AI is very beneficial for the future of humanity as no individual can live without
using the AI machines, as these are working in their daily lives.
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
As this has been observe that artificial intelligence is structured and created machines
which have the ability to think and act like the human beings, so that the machines can be able to
take the necessary decisions without the involvement of the humans. Thus giving the right to the
machines to think and take decisions can arise many issues and can also provide many benefits,
which are been outlined below -
Advantages of Artificial Intelligence Disadvantages of Artificial Intelligence

As the decisions are to taken by the machines
by gathering and assembling the previous
information and examinee the various
algorithms and without the involvement of
humans, so the decisions taken now reduces
the errors and the accuracy and efficiency can
be accomplished.
Artificial Intelligence has reduces the
employment as everyone in today's time is
using the machines of AI and each company is
operating and running their business by the use
of Artificial Intelligence, which have arises the
issues of unemployment and the job security.
The use of AI machines has replaced the
resources of humans by which many
individuals are losing their jobs as because
machines are having the power to work 24*7
with having no break, and this is very
beneficial for the firm while working with
those peoples or employees which needs
breaks and refreshment time.
By using the artificial intelligence, the
decisions can be taken faster (Recht and Bryan,
2017) .
As this I known that the machines need
maintenance and repairing on time in which
there is huge loss of cost. Along with this, the
hardware and software also need to get
updated time-to-time in order to attain the
latest requirements.
The absence of emotions can also have the
better use of AI, as the machines are not
having any emotions so they have the power to
think logically and take the necessary actions
and the accurate decisions, while the emotions
of the humans are associated with their mood
which can reduces the efficiency of the
humans. Thus, the complete absence of the
emotions can make the machines to take the
right decisions.
This is true that AI machines are working
efficiently but the machines cannot be able to
replace the bond or connection with the
humans that makes the effective team.
Machines cannot be able toe stablish the bond
with humans.

The increasing use of AI in medical has
improve the methods of treatment and avoiding
the cost in order to minimise the risk of wrong
diagnosis. The robots are now performing the
semi-surgical tasks with the increased
efficiency. Artificial Intelligence is not
replacing the medical doctors but they will
help them to take even better care of their
patients by providing them the relevant data
required by them such as history of cancer,
smoking, high blood pressure, etc., otherwise
these information will take even more time to
gather.
Today's generation is using the machines and
are highly dependent on them just like Siri. If
the humans will totally depend on machines
then they will going to decreases their mental
abilities and in the upcoming future with the
more use of AI machines, humans will become
fully dependent on the machines and are
losing their capabilities of thinking themselves.
THE FUTURE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR HUMANS.
Artificial Intelligence is an aid to the future of humanity, as this will help the humans in
removing their difficult tasks, and also helps them to do less jobs and use their minds in doing
creativity such as thinking about developing the new brands, designing and developing the
products and services along with dealing with the relationships of the humans. Also in the
upcoming future the use of Artificial Intelligence will result in the transformation of the culture
in the workplace, where all the individuals will become more challenging inn order to do more
and better than the AI machines or robots. At last, the future of artificial intelligence is that both
the physical and mental tasks of the humans which are highly repetitive and based on the
performance, prediction and execution which are to be performed by the human beings are soon
will be replaced or moved by machines in the upcoming future, and this will raised the
opportunity for the humans also (Shachter and et.al., 2017) . Therefore, artificial intelligence is
aid as well as threat for the future to humanity, as with the use of artificial intelligence machines,
the humans mental ability will be decreases which is not good for the future of human beings.

CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned essay report, this has been concluded that Artificial
intelligence is the theory and development of the computer machines which are able to perform
all the tasks normally requiring human intelligence. Artificial Intelligence will help the humans
in many cases as shown in the above report by its importance. Advantages and disadvantages are
also been explained in the above report in order to resolve the statement that Artificial
intelligence is a threat or aid for the future to humanity. From the above report, this has been
observe that artificial intelligence is both the threat and aid for the upcoming future to humanity,
as by using the machines or robots, the humans will not use their brain so this can effect on the
mental health of the human beings, and as an aid artificial intelligence are having many benefits
towards the humanity in the society.

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