Pros and Cons Of Artificial Intelligence

a-iB2 – Upper intermediate

The rise of artificial intelligence has been preoccupying people from all different walks of life. Whether you’re a scientist, an engineer or a mother of two, questions will always be asked. Is it good? Or does it bring more harm?

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PROS AND CONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Discuss:

1. How would you define artificial intelligence?
2. Is AI a threat to the human race as we know it? Is there a danger that AI will take over the world?
3. Should we be making AI that behave like humans?
4. AI is and could be powerful. Should we have a campaign to stop the killer robots?
5. Will the robot army rise up and steal our jobs?
6. Can AI help address some of the world’s most pressing problems, or will it worsen issues such as inequality and poverty?

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1. How would you define artificial intelligence?
It is the intelligence of machines, the way human being are designing machines that can think, even feel (in the future) like them.

2. Is AI a threat to the human race as we know it? Is there a danger that AI will take over the world?
For the moment, I really don’t thing that it is the most important risk. But they are other risks that could be damagable for the human : if they become dependant of the robot making all the jobs and tasks, there could be human unemployment, lazyness and risk of loosing our thinking, multitasking and intuitive abilities. That could be rather dangerous and potentialy robots could become stronger / powerful than human.

3. Should we be making AI that behave like humans?
First of all that is impossible (for the moment). Because there are still différences between humans of robots : feeling (hapiness, sadness, care, solidarity, etc.) are not qualities that could be learnt by the robots.
Secondly, that would not be ethic : that would mean create slaves at our image. Like a kind of exploitation / taking advantage of them.

4. AI is and could be powerful. Should we have a campaign to stop the killer robots?
Yes, I think they are too dangerous and they make the war easy to be decided by the government. Very often in the old times, the number of injured or murdered people was decisive in the ceasefire. With an army of robot, there would be no end except in case of general breakdown….

5. Will the robot army rise up and steal our jobs?
It is a possibility. But the worse would be that human would be unemployed and will loose their ability / agitlity to work, to adapt to change, to think and propose evolution, etc. That would mean an attrition in our creativity skills.

6. Can AI help address some of the world’s most pressing problems, or will it worsen issues such as inequality and poverty?
Well and fairly used, AI could be a wonderful way of discharging human from hard tasks and give them the time and the opportunity to increase their knowledge, develop their creativity to find solution to keep the world liveable for all. If only…

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Well and fairly used, AI could be a wonderful way of discharging human from hard tasks and give them the time and the opportunity to increase their knowledge, develop their creativity to find solution to keep the world liveable for all.

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1. How would you define artificial intelligence?
I think it is a tool that will help us more and more in the future but it still has its limitations today.

2. Is AI a threat to the human race as we know it? Is there a danger that AI will take over the world?
I don’t believe in that kind of theories, where AI ends up controlling the world. My biggest fear about this is that it will be cheaper to buy a robot than to pay a person’s salary and that in the long run, it will put people out of work.

3. Should we be making AI that behave like humans?
I don’t think so, I think this is the perfect opportunity to rid humans of their biggest flaws. I don’t think it is a good thing to make an AI lazy, hungry or envious.

4. AI is and could be powerful. Should we have a campaign to stop the killer robots?
I don’t believe in that, I don’t think it is possible. I would like to think that we will be intelligent enough not to create such robots.

5. Will the robot army rise up and steal our jobs?
I don’t think so, it sounds like something out of a science fiction movie.

6. Can AI help address some of the world’s most pressing problems, or will it worsen issues such as inequality and poverty?
I think these problems are too complex even for an AI to solve, but I do think they could help us with them.

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1. How would you define artificial intelligence?

Machines used for analyzing tons of data and building predictive models to make decisions.

2. Is AI a threat to the human race as we know it? Is there a danger that AI will take over the world?

Of course it is. The more we rely on it, the more decision we put in machine´s hands, the less control we will have over important things such as medicine, agriculture, mental health, privacy, military institutions, etc.

3. Should we be making AI that behave like humans?

There will always be a difference, a threshold that i don´t know if we will be able to cross. But no we shouldn´t.

4. AI is and could be powerful. Should we have a campaign to stop the killer robots?

No campaign necesarry yet!

5. Will the robot army rise up and steal our jobs?

More and more.

6. Can AI help address some of the world’s most pressing problems, or will it worsen issues such as inequality and poverty?

I believe it can be used to that service, it´s up to us, if we want to implement the sollutions ai can bring in this fields.

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I believe it can be used for this purpose. It´s up to us whether we want to implement the solutions that AI can bring to these fields.

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1. How would you define artificial intelligence?

I will define it as the way human see the human conscience.

2. Is AI a threat to the human race as we know it? Is there a danger that AI will take over the world?

I don´t think so.

3. Should we be making AI that behave like humans?

We can try it but, AI will never behave 100% linke humans.

4. AI is and could be powerful. Should we have a campaign to stop the killer robots?

Yes, killing is a horrible act we cannot take away that “human part´´ we can’t mechanize that horrible act, because if we do it we will start to see it as something non-human.

5. Will the robot army rise up and steal our jobs?

Since the industrial revolution, jobs have been robotized, for example in assembly lines.

6. Can AI help address some of the world’s most pressing problems, or will it worsen issues such as inequality and poverty?

Inequality an poverty are human problems due to the comprehensiveness of the human being. Poverty is a problem that could be solved by better distribution of resources and paying decent wages in third world countries. The inequality will be solve if we take ours egos away.

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