People seem to be either excited or worried about the future impact of artificial intelligence. Personally, I can understand the two opposing points of view; I am both fascinated by developments in artificial intelligence and apprehensive about its possible negative effects.
On the one hand, the increasing intelligence of technology should bring some obvious benefits. Machines are clearly able to do many jobs better than humans can, especially in areas that require high levels of accuracy or calculations using large amounts of data. For example, robots are being developed that can carry out surgical procedures with greater precision than a human doctor, and we already have cars that use sensors and cameras to drive themselves. Such technologies can improve safety by reducing the likelihood of human errors. It is easy to imagine how these developments, and many others, will steadily improve our quality of life.
On the other hand, I share the concerns of people who believe that artificial intelligence may harm us if we are not careful. In the short term, it is likely that we will see a rise in unemployment as workers in various industries are replaced by machines or software programs. For example, self-driving vehicles are expected to cause redundancies in driving jobs, such as lorry drivers, taxi drivers and bus drivers. In the medium term, if intelligent technologies gradually take jobs away from humans, we may find that people become deskilled and lose their sense of purpose in life. A longer term fear is that computers become so intelligent that they begin to make decisions without human oversight and without regard for our well-being.
In conclusion, while intelligent machines will no doubt improve our lives in many ways, the potential risks of such technologies should not be ignored.
People
seem to be either excited or worried about the future impact of artificial
intelligence
.
Personally
, I can understand the two opposing points of view; I am both fascinated by developments in artificial
intelligence
and apprehensive about its possible
negative
effects.
On the one hand, the increasing
intelligence
of
technology
should bring
some
obvious benefits. Machines are
clearly
able to do
many
jobs better than
humans
can,
especially
in areas that require high levels of accuracy or calculations using large amounts of data.
For example
, robots are
being developed
that can carry out surgical procedures with greater precision than a
human
doctor, and we already have cars that
use
sensors and cameras to drive themselves. Such
technologies
can
improve
safety by reducing the likelihood of
human
errors. It is easy to imagine how these developments, and
many
others, will
steadily
improve
our quality of life.
On the other hand
, I share the concerns of
people
who believe that artificial
intelligence
may harm us if we are not careful. In the short term, it is likely that we will
see
a rise in unemployment as workers in various industries
are replaced
by machines or software programs.
For example
, self-driving vehicles are
expected
to cause redundancies in driving jobs, such as lorry drivers, taxi drivers and bus drivers. In the medium term, if intelligent
technologies
gradually
take jobs away from
humans
, we may find that
people
become deskilled and lose their sense of purpose in life. A longer term fear is that computers become
so
intelligent that they
begin
to
make
decisions without
human
oversight and without regard for our well-being.
In conclusion
, while intelligent machines will no doubt
improve
our
lives
in
many
ways, the potential
risks
of such
technologies
should not be
ignored
.