Artificial Intelligence: Examining Its Role as a Threat or Aid

This essay delves into the multifaceted nature of Artificial Intelligence (AI), examining its dual role as both a potential threat and a significant aid to humanity. The introduction establishes AI as a trending technology with human-like cognitive capabilities, essential in the technological sector, with applications in diverse sectors like medicine, infrastructure, research, and defense. The main body explores the positive impacts of AI, including its integration into daily life through devices like smartphones, smart speakers, and automated systems in homes and transportation, which improves efficiency and creates job opportunities. However, the essay also addresses the threats posed by AI, such as job displacement due to automation, security risks associated with AI-driven weapons and hacking, the spread of misinformation, and the potential manipulation of future events. Conversely, the essay highlights the advantages of AI, including its error reduction capabilities, the ability to operate in hostile environments, and its application in various fields like finance, healthcare, and education. The conclusion synthesizes the arguments, underscoring the complex balance between AI's benefits and its inherent risks, and the need for careful planning and management to ensure its positive evolution.

Artificial Intelligence a threat or and
aid to the humanity

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Artificial Intelligence is latest trending technology for machineries. This provide thinking
and working power to a machine like a human have. Under this machines are developed which
have intelligence as a human have like thinking, identifying objects, making decision. It is
converting to an essential part of technological sector. Researches related to artificial intelligence
are highly technical and specialised (Ashrafian, 2015). This sector make some problem to
program for certain points such that knowledge, reasoning, problem solving, perception, learning
and planning. Under this easy, discussion will take place over AI and over it's threats and aids.
MAIN BODY
Many sectors are there all around the world which uses Artificial Intelligence for better
results. Some basic sectors are Medical sector, Infrastructure sector, Research sector, Defence
sector and many more. In all these sectors AI is used to measure that what will be the output for
the condition and this help to select the best strategy with best results on different conditions.
Companies like Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and and other leading technological
companies of the world have big projects over AI which can have some positive as well as
negative impact on society.
Now a days, AI is very commonly used features. Companies have started to provide some
features of AI in daily used accessories like in smart phones, speakers home appliances. This is
to make human to get friendly with AI and this also helps the researchers to make better and
enhance that feature. In daily life AI plays a very unique role and the daily routine easier, as Siri
and Cortana are popular AI which helps in mobile operating and also helps in search operations.
In systems like mobiles latest AI feature is face unlocking and finger print censor. Alexa and
Echo are the latest equipments launched by Amazon and Google respectively. These devices are
use for making daily work easier like controlling and changing music and sound, on and off
lights and fans, search for desired results and many more (Boyd and Wilson, 2017).
In countries like USA, UK, Australia, AI is also used in homes as well as on roads also.
They use robots which are specially designed for home works, on roads also they use automatic
cars which do not need any driver. This all is possible only due to AI as the system in car set the
destination and search the best and shortest route to reach there, this helps in saving fuel as well
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as ave time also. AI also proving a good and high profile jobs to youth who have knowledge
about development in AI and IOT ( Internet of things) as well.
In medical sector AI is use to identify the probabilities of the accuracy in outcomes of
strategies they have made for solution (Dysart, 2017). In military AI is used in pilotless drones
which reduces the death ratio during war. This also increase in level of accurate targeting of
attack.
Threats of AI
Although AI have many benefits but also have many threats which are very much
dangerous in the prospective of society. Some of them are, JARVIS by Facebook. Earlier
Facebook has decided to make a robot which help in daily working of an individual. But as the
main robot of that team get completed, he use to make it's own force just in one night, which run
on the instructions of JARVIS only. The programming language used by JARVIS in this was
unknown for every one, then after knowing that Facebook decides to destroy JARVIS. This all
was done for security measures, as it was possible that for society it can create a big problem in
future.
AI is a big threat in terms of employment. As the work by machines get completed faster
and accurately. Machines also have more productivity as compared to humans. So the increase in
use of machines rather then human resources is getting into trends for example: In Japan, few
days ago, A new restaurant was opened and the waiters in that restaurant was all the robots.
These types of activities leads to unemployment in society, which may increase in criminal
activities in societies (Gutiérrez-Jones, 2014).
Weapons which are created using AI are very much dangerous in the aspects of society as
well as in security measures. Using AI to make nuclear weapons can be very handy for the world
as these all are controlled and excess by the system only. As it is possible to hack a system and
the weapon also, the person or organization can use that in terrorist activities also.
A system can find bugs in another system faster then a human can. This means hacking a
system using AI will get easier for every one. This can be very much sophisticated for the society
as well as for big organizations all around the world. It can cause in many ways to the society
like if any organization hacks the security system of any other organization then the they can
make an excess of that system and can perform any activity they want to using illegal excess.
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AI is also use for making fake news and use to spread misinformation. As AI also
provides software which uses special effects to change the audio as well as transform videos.
This may lead to social cerises and also to miss guidance in society.
AI is also harmful for factors like pretension of future, this is because if any one can
pretend the future then they will try to change it. This was happened in UK election 2018,
Cambridge Analytica (a UK based election consultancy firm) uses AI to detect interest of
peoples and estimate the future result. This they use for their personal benefits like extra income
by political parties by selling them the outputs which help them to change their strategies
according to results (Hackel, Looser and Van Bavel, 2014).
For self driving car, Uber meets an accident where a self driving car get accidental
because of change in driving conditions. As these types of cars are specially designed for driving
under only those conditions in which they have trained for.
Deep learning and other similar algorithms do not have rational explanation about the
working of AI, this may lead to potential abuse and misuse and harder to recover digital failure.
Aids of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is on the top, both in business and in the global economy. It is
complex in nature. It uses the complex concepts of computer science and mathematics. The
computer programming can help these appliances to reproduce the abilities of human beings.
Artificial intelligence is beneficial as it helps in reducing the error and increases the accuracy
level for future strategies. Artificial Intelligence robot machines are of metal bodies, by which
they have the greater ability to support the infinite and unfriendly atmosphere. They are designed
in such a way that they can not be adapted or breakdown in the unfriendly environment. AI can
also be used in mining and other fuel exploration processes. This can also reduce the obstacles of
humans and can explore the ocean floor. Now a days, human are more addicted towards
computational things as all wants there work to be as automated. As “Siri or Cortana” is
designed to help humans to get things done. The Android Smartphones is one of the best
example of how much we use AI in our daily life. The humans are also using GPS for the road
trips. As humans see while typing the messages, AI machines can predict what we are trying to
write and they correct the humans errors and mistakes in spelling (Kile, 2013). That is the
Artificial Intelligence at work. Humans mainly capture the images in their smartphones, the AI
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algorithm identifies the person's face and tag that person when we post our pictures on social
media sites.
Artificial Intelligence is beneficial in every field of humans. This is widely used in
financial and banking institutions to organize the data in a systematic manner. While to withdraw
money for personal and professional activities humans use ATM machines as this is also a part
of AI.
Top advanced organizations uses digital assistants who interact with the end users, thus
this saves the need for human resources. The artificial thinkers does not get distract with the
emotions or feelings, as for them emotions come in the way of logical thinking. The absolute
lack of emotional side makes the machines think rational and logical to do the right judgement.
As robots thinks faster than humans, so they can perform multi tasking, and can be engaged to
carry out the risky tasks. When an individual run a computer system or play a game in the
smartphones or laptops, at that time they are actually interacting with the AI. The machine
Intelligence design game movements in response to humans movements (Luxton, Anderson and
Anderson, 2016). The gaming can be the most common benefit of AI. The AI is also beneficial
in medical field as doctors operates the patients and their health with the machines of artificial
intelligence. The medical professionals are fully trained with the AI machines which can also
imitate with the brain functions of humans.
AI robotics machines are also used for mental health patients to bring them out from the
depression and to make them to remain active. Radiosurgery is the popular AI application which
is used in operating brain tumours patients without harmful the surrounding tissues. Humans get
tired, distracted and bored while working hours, but machines performed and programmed for
long hours without frequent breaks and refreshments. AI machines works continuously without
getting bored and tired. Conflicts over technologies are common, lets take an example of auto-
mobiles- it took many years to establish precepts around the organization to make it safe. That's
why AI is beneficial for humans as it enhances their efficiency while creating new opportunities.
Humans are not best in doing monotonous tasks, while machine can do that fast. So this is also
the one where the AI is beneficial for humans (O'Brien, 2012). As this allows the humans to do
social and creative exposure of work. The Headlines always depicts that “Robots and AI will
destroy humans” , as this is only a myth nothing else. AI motivates a stepwise evolution in the
market which with the right planning will be positive. Humans are working but they will work
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better with the help of AI. The growth of Artificial Intelligence in Humans life will enhance their
lifestyle and create more efficient environment around them. The Tasks like email and data entry
will be done by machine assistants. AI is also beneficial in education field as the use of
projectors is having for the smart classes in schools and colleges. AI is also use to solve the
complex social problems, as the humans are just at beginning to find that how AI can be applied
to meaningful problems. AI aid decision making by creating the process faster and smarter. From
SIRI to driverless cars, artificial Intelligence is growing rapidly. AI can cover anything from
google search algorithms to IBM's Watson to self-directed instrument (Yampolskiy, 2012).
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from above mention report that artificial intelligence react or work
like human. It deals with stimulation of the intelligence computer behaviours. This present essay
was based on Artificial Intelligence is treat or helpful for humans. It provides the negative as
well as positive impact on human life. There has been discussion about the threats related with
Artificial Intelligence to human because it is a disadvantage for them such as develop
unemployment. On the other hand, benefits of Artificial Intelligence to human has been also
discussed in this mention essay.
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