The Future of Humanity: Is Artificial Intelligence a Threat or an Aid?

This essay delves into the multifaceted relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and the future of humanity. It begins by defining AI and its applications, highlighting its increasing prevalence in various sectors. The essay then explores the dual nature of AI, examining both its potential benefits and risks. On the one hand, AI is presented as a tool that can enhance human capabilities, automate tasks, improve efficiency, and drive innovation across industries. It discusses the positive impacts of AI in areas such as healthcare, business, and defense. On the other hand, the essay acknowledges the potential threats associated with AI, including job displacement, ethical concerns, and the possibility of autonomous weapons systems. The essay concludes by summarizing the key arguments and emphasizing the importance of responsible development and deployment of AI to ensure a beneficial future for humanity.

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Is Artificial intelligence a threat or an aid to the future of humanity .............................................3
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
ESSAY.............................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

Is Artificial intelligence a threat or an aid to the future of humanity
INTRODUCTION
Artificial intelligence can be consider as the ability of digital computer and computer
controlled robot to complete tasks and activities easily. It is used in project developing systems
dowered in context to intellectual process characteristic of human, such as discovering meaning,
ability to reason, learn from the experience related to past. In today working environment it plays
a vital role and no one want to complete its regular and operational work without help of it
(Boutilier and et. al., 2015). This is a approach in context to properties, objects and maintain the
relation among all of it which help to implement knowledge engineering. It can be used to
consider the property of various programs and machine, the intelligence that system exhibit.
Artificial intelligence has used in research operations, computer science, philosophy, economics
and optimization. Without the help of computers it can not be done and AI helps a lot in context
to human aid and it involves: critical problem solving, speech recognition and learning. From the
development of computers in 1940's, its programs are carried out various critical task such as to
identify proofs for mathematical theorems. As Such as time is spending technology is getting
developed by the period of time. Systems of computers are getting advanced in terms of process,
speed and memory capacity. There are many loopholes in the systems in artificial intelligence
and it does not co pup as the human flexibility over broader domains.
The scope of artificial intelligence is big that help in increasing business growth and
sucess. The behaviour of persons are associated with intelligence, while even the most critical
insect behaviour does not taken as the indicator of intelligence. There are various ways of
learning and apply it, learning can be simple as trial or error. For example, computers programs
can resolve the mate in one chess issues (Fallon and et. al., 2015). Artificial intelligence is very
helpful in the business as it allows to save the time and money by automating routine process and
tasks. This helps in increasing the productivity and operational efficiencies. This is very helpful
in the business to make business decisions based on outputs from cognitive technologies. As it
allows to avoid mistakes and human errors and provide the smart system. As cost and time
savings can also be done with help of this artificial intelligence.
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ESSAY
Artificial Intelligence is no longer remains a science fiction as it is now become a part of
individual life. As people are now living in a world where artificial intelligence become an
unavoidable part of people which is disrupting industry as well as society in truly a
transformative way. AI is every where from the chat bots as a customer service performance to
machines like IBM's Watson beating. It is altering everything in world and changing the way in
which humans live within the society (Ghahramani, 2015). It has a capacity to alter everything
from some new technology to daily based tasks that a person perform in their general schedule.
But apart from this AI has both the ability such as to push the world toward the permanent utopia
or trigger the downfall of humanity.
Artificial intelligence has contributed up to a great extend toward improving the quality
as well as standard of people living within the society by simplifying their day to day operations.
Apart from this artificial intelligence also contributed toward improving the operations
performed by a business by bringing several advanced technologies (Zang and et. al., 2015). One
of a known inventor named as Elon Musk has started designing a brain-computer interface which
will act as a medium between a human brain and computer this innovation will act as a blessing
for humanity. As this will support in helping the people in solving their several issues and
problems which in turn help in improving the quality of life (Miller, 2018).
This may include treatment related to the variety of medical issues, solving criminal cases
etc. which can be done through creating a link between brain and computer where the thoughts
and memories can be assess for finding out solutions. As by connecting the human brain with
computer the real life problems can be solved in a more effective manner and that are being
acceptable by people within the society. Because a human memory and brain can be access
through computer which may sometimes not cleared to human because of time gap between
incidents but are generally kept stored in their mind. This information can be further used for
finding out the solution of current problem. For instance, police can use artificial intelligence as
a major source to solve their criminal case. This can be done by assessing the memory of culprit
for determining the actual cause or incident which actually has happened. Another example can
be taken for medical field where doctors can record the process of providing treatment to a
particular disease or major symptoms to identify the disease to which a particular patient is
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suffering from. So, in the absence of doctor that machine can check up the patient and from the
symptoms they have disease can be identified so that proper treatment can be exert to them. So,
these are some of the major benefit that AI can provide to human beings and improve their
quality of life (Rahwan and et. al., 2015). Hence, it can be say that artificial intelligence will aid
to humanity by simplifying their life through involving innovation in their daily routine which
ensure work done in an effective manner.
It is defined as the computers of next generations. Humanity is still working on this concept of
making computers thinkable. The main drawbacks of computers till now was that they are not
able to think and progress. They can just do the task which is programmed for them to do.
Artificial Intelligence is an art of making computers intelligent. This is a revolution of humanity
in which it is moving to make computers thinkable. This will take the humanity into next level.
This process of Artificial Intelligence has both the aid and threat to humanity. Here the
discussion is made on the aid and threat of Artificial Intelligence over humanity. The aid of AI is
that it will reduce the cost of manufacturing the products and services. It will be a huge
progression of humanity into market. Artificial Intelligence can manufacture the advanced
products with the help of its different aspects. (Russell and Norvig, 2016). This will surely
reduce the cost of manufacturing to humanity. The benefits of AI will also increase in defence
because the artificial robots can engage themselves in the field of war. This will surely save the
humanity from going to destroy themselves. The use of AI can be there in the field of future
predictions and assumptions. If it is possible to identify the threats and disasters in advanced, it
can save humanity in advance. Another aid of AI is the making of solutions to humanity. In
today's era it can be assumed that AI is a solution to all problems, it is common in every
technology as it can be seen that sensor is an example of AI.
Autonomous weapons are artificial intelligence systems that are programmed to kill. In
the hands of the incorrect person, these weapons could effectively cause mass casualties.
Furthermore, an Artificial intelligence arms race could knowingly lead to an artificial
intelligence war that also outputs in mass casualties. In order to avoid being thwarted by the
force, these weapons would be planned to be extremely not easy to simply “turn off,” so humans
could credibly lose monitor of such a situation. This risk and uncertainty is one that’s present
even with narrow AI, but grows as levels of AI intelligence and autonomy increase. (Steels and
Brooks, 2018). Technology is the only thing which can not be trusted as humans have made it as
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it can be hacked by someone and can be used in many mischiefs like robbery, killing etc. As
recently one private company was using data in AI to manipulate results of USA election. If
World war 3 will be held in the future then it would be against robots instead of between
humans.
From the above statements it can concluded that the use of AI has expanded in vast. It has
both the pros and cons but the most affected part is pros of AI are better than that of Cons. The
aids of AI are explained above and from that it can concluded that AI is going to be used by
humans in future to be as an effective tool (Sharon and et. al., 2015). In today's world it is widely
recognised that AI is will unlikely to exhibit the emotions of human such as love or hate. It is
expected that AI will become intentionally benevolent. It is considered that it will become risk
for the future generation as it has been analysed that:
It has the power and intelligence that can be devastating for the future, they have the
mind of their own and is used in almost each and every thing nowadays, such as autonomous
weapons which are programmed to kill the enemies. If they are programmed in a manner that can
lead to a devastating effect. If these are held in the hands of wrong person then it will amount to
cause causalities (Skowron, Faliszewski and Lang, 2016). The AI is programmed to do
something beneficial, but it develops a destructive method for achieving its goals. This can
happen whenever we fail to fully align the AI goals with needs, which is strikingly difficult for
the future generation. Artificial intelligence has led the high usage of technology and its tools to
gain advantage over the human evolution. AI has effected the use of manpower and workforce in
almost every task or works, which has resulted in loss of employment opportunity for the human
being.
CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned information, it can be concluded that artificial intelligence is
essential tool of digitalisation. The biggest threat of AI is that they are replacing the human
structure from multiple jobs from technology to production function. As the result, it has
achieved the immense industrial growth by replacing the worker or human being to implement
the It machinery at the greater level. In the future, AI would replace the human being by
continuous adaptation of advancement technology into the work engagement along with
decreasing the future job scope of the human being. Artificial intelligence will put severe impact
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on the human regulation and involvement into the technological aspects. Such impact has to be
realize to lower down on the humility to enhance and sustain their job and employment.
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