The Future: Artificial Intelligence - Threat or Aid to Humanity?

This essay delves into the multifaceted role of artificial intelligence (AI) in shaping the future of humanity. It begins by defining AI and its capabilities, including information acquisition, self-correction, and reasoning. The essay explores both the benefits and drawbacks, highlighting how AI can enhance human intelligence, automate industries, and improve efficiency. However, it also examines the potential risks, such as job displacement, over-reliance on technology, and the threat to human cognitive abilities. The essay discusses the ongoing debate among experts about the potential dangers of advanced AI systems and the importance of managing its development responsibly. It concludes by emphasizing that while AI has become an integral part of human life, controlling its development is crucial to protect human intellect and mitigate potential threats, ensuring a balanced approach that harnesses its benefits while safeguarding humanity's future.

Study and Research Skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

Topic: Is artificial intelligence a threat or aid to the future of humanity?
INTRODUCTION
The research skill under an academic course defines the development of effective
research skills by student. It includes effectiveness in conducting research over a given topic and
present the finding in various formate to give an understanding over research topic. In the present
essay research skills are presented by writing an essay over the topic artificial intelligence a
threat or aid to the future of humanity. The essay will depict the undersetting of academic
research and presenting various ideas with identification and examination of different relevant
resources.
MAIN BODY
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be definienda as a stimulation of the human intelligence
processed by machines in the forms of computer systems. The process of artificial intelligence
incudes the task of acquisition of information and rules for use of the information, self correction
and reasoning ability development where rules are used to reach approximate and definite
conclusions. By the term AI means to develop the human intelligence the way of thinking,
critical analysis, decision making and self improvisation through correction in to an artificial
system manly in computer systems(Artificial Intelligence Is Our Future, 2019). This
development have proven to a boon as well as a curse for the humanity. The boon can be defined
as it have taken the understanding and thinking of the human to another level which have
depicted a good IQ level among the human being. A curse can be seen in the coming future were
the AI program and devises will overpower the human intelligence and humans might find it
difficulty to service on their own without the aids of AI.
Though some of the people think that robot may take over the world when they will
envision artificial intelligence. This also includes Siri from Apple and Alexa from Amazon,
google assistant form google. AI also found in the autonomous vehicles and robotics which the
ability of interaction and adjusting as per the requirement of the environment for competing the
tasks (7 Ways AI Will Help Humanity, Not Harm It, 2019). This is directly increase the
importance of Al with each passing year and every a new and constant improve is being dreamt
upon to be brought in life in form on artificial intelligence. AI is considered to be highly
sophisticated sector under the modern science which is gaining a better understanding of how AI
ca effect the normal human life and how to gain effective learnings over it. Overall it can be
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stated that artificial intelligence present all possible ways to bring change in the society where all
of the jobs and be replaced by robots which a human can do.
The concept of artificial intelligence is quite intriguing which fascinate experts and
laymen from past many years. Technology has moved froward immense level in past 20 years
and there is great breakthrough in the field of developing learning over machines. It can be
clearly seen that man at the present time has a significant power which he/she had back in 90's.
With the development of AI the humans are now allowed with a power of machine which can
process and analyse the information themselves and present them in conclusive and sophisticated
manner (But Will It Save Or Destroy Humanity?, 2019). The development of artificial
intelligence have made it possible for the robots and other machines to perform complex and
intensive human labour and tough physical task too easy which can be performed by the Al
possessing machines with ease and without any problem. The inclusion in AI is plants of all
sizes, robots, new and improved machineries. This clearly demonstrates that AI development is
blessing for the automation of the industries.
With presenting the AI as boon for humans and industry automation the fact can not be
denied that existence of artificial intelligence is a threat to humanity. The alarms bells of
potential risk has already been ranged which are possessed by artificial general intelligence on
the future (Is Artificial Intelligence Dangerous?, 2019). One of the major risk that is associated
with the AI is, human losing their potential powers which are empowered through the nature.
With more advanced technicology and development people are becoming more dependent on
such devises and technology which are embarked with AI. All this made the potential of human
thinking and decision making slow which effect the thinking and analytical power of human thus
effecting the intelligence quotient of the people. This is a sever threat to the human brain as in
course of developing artificial intelligence their own intelligence and brains are on the stakes
only fewer number of people are included in such task of development rather most of them are
relying on the development, so all over the effect on human intelligence there is threat in the
future due to development and extension of artificial intelligence.
The existence development of the could potentially be dangerous for the man kind. At
some point it has been compared to the dictator of North Korea to denominate the level of danger
of AI by the innovator and leader of Tesla and Space, Elon musk. In the recent time many
machines have been developed by various scientist which possess super intelligence power
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which can possibly take the place of intelligent thoughts. So this is the crucial time to determine
the danger that are possessed by AI and to take effective measure to mitigate the bad effects over
the good effect (Is Artificial Intelligence a threat to Humans?, 2019). As rightly stated by the co
founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates that a good can over weigh the bas if it is properly managers as
he has detected the threats and stated to be cautious over use and development of artificial
intelligence. The AI in the long run will definitely possess a danger to human life as people will
brain dead soon which means the reliance of AI might increase to such level where people can
lose their ability to think and reach a conclusive decision.
With the development of artificial intelligence in many electronic devises, robots and
others the scope of mistake have been mitigated. The use of plant and machine and other devises
presented with AI have left a nil scope for the error and mistakes. The development of the
intelligent apps and other devises shares a promise of AI and its automation where the
compulsion of human intervention is totally eliminated (6 AI Risks Everyone Should Know
About, 2019). This means that in the near future all the manual jobs will be replaced by the AI
and this will directly reduce the scope of mistake and errors a which in turn enhance the
productivity of a business or a task leading to acquirement of the goal and objective of the
organization within time and with utter accuracy. This also means tat with the zero scope of any
error the changes of accidents and other contingencies will also be automatically reduces as with
occurrence of mistake a machine with AI will stop to work and this lead to prevention of the
accidents and protection from happing a malfunction or even a disaster.
With making of a devise a robot or a machine with AI performing the human jobs the
factors includes are the rules and conditions for operating the given tasks. All AI machine
performance is based on the feeds and rule inserted into it and on the basis of the different
combination it determines the solutions and take a conclusive decision over a given situation or
performing a task (Crawford, 2016. This means that with AI the work based things are based on
the big function which runs automatically when a system is started. This functions can be
extended to other system as well under different parameters like number, texts and documents as
well. At present the smaller codes are used which are easy to debug but with the extensive level
of development a complex level framework of the functions are being developed and with this,
things get more complicated can result into break down of the codes and which can make the
performance a task incorrectly or wrong in a never ending loop.
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With involvement of AI in the human lives the humans are freed form the obligation of
work performance both in domestic as well as work life. Is it a common belief that artificial
intelligence will one-day leads to the end of humanity and the machines and robots will take over
the planet permanently and completely (Brundage and et.al., 2018) But the fact is completely
ignored that inclusion of AI in day to day live have made the human life and provides help to
man kind and frees us from the responsibilities that a person do not want or need. So it is
needless to say that human cannot let superior intelligence blindly control us. However, not
employing its benefits for thier advantage would be an equally ignorant thing to do.
From the above discussion it can be stated that artificial intelligence is a part of the
human life which can not be separated from man kind now. The AI have made the life of human
being simple and comfortable with elimination of complex works and high intensity of the
manual labours works. With the integration of AI in the human life its has proved to be a boon to
the human life as it aids people in conducting the human work with simplicity and less
complexity. But at the same time the fact can not be denied that more reliance over the AI can
adversely effect the human life and most prominently the work life balance as well as the
thinking and analytical power of a person (King, and et.al., 2019). The improvement in AI effect
the intellect of a people which can deteriorate the intelligence level of the future generation as
most of the work of thinking and decision making will be done through the AI empowered
devise. And this a curse to the human life. So, as per the requirement of present time the both
pros and cons are going at parallel level. But if on time actions if not take the scenario can get
worse and the situation might get out of control.
Moreover, the critiques to AI usage and developments also states that with more of the
use the odes gets complicated which in case of a break down can lead in shut down of the work
so a 100% reliance and elimination of the manual work will only result in disaster (Arlitsch and
Newell, 2017). Hence, the requirement of present time calls for such development of AI where a
proper involvement of human intellect is present in order to protect the intelligence of man kind
as well as to protect the potential threat that an AI machine or devise can create which only be
controlled or stopped by a natural person with intelligence not a devise with artificial
intelligence.
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CONCLUSION
To conclude the above report it can be stated that artificial intelligence has become one of
the important and integral part of the human life and the human life at present times and in the
future can be imagined without the AI in machines, automation, electronics and other devised
which are used in day to day life of a person as well as in conducting the business operations.
This means that AI have become the necessity of life but this is the high time where a control
over the use and development of AI is required to be put in order to stop deteriorating the life of
man kind. The research and development of Al is on a high pace in current time to replace all the
manual jobs by the machines with artificial intelligence and ability of taking conclusive
decisions. If the situation in not controlled at right time in the future the AI will definitely
overpower the natural intelligence of human and a person might get dependent on artificial
intelligence for carrying out day to day work, for which he/she possesses more intellect but they
have become dependent on AI.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Crawford, K., 2016. Artificial intelligence’s white guy problem. The New York Times, 25.
Brundage, M. H and et.al., 2018. The malicious use of artificial intelligence: Forecasting,
prevention, and mitigation. arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.07228.
King, T. C and et.al., 2019. Artificial intelligence crime: An interdisciplinary analysis of
foreseeable threats and solutions. Science and engineering ethics, pp.1-32.
Arlitsch, K. and Newell, B., 2017. Thriving in the age of accelerations: a brief look at the
societal effects of artificial Intelligence and the opportunities for libraries. Journal of Library
Administration. 57(7). pp.789-798.
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