“The danger of AI is much greater than the danger of nuclear warheads” these were some of the sentences said by Elon Musk in 2018. He along with many people believe that if AI isn’t introduced properly it could destroy humans and its not only now but from before we have seen in many films and series where robots take over humans however in the movie human race always wins but we are not sure about the outcome of AI in takeover if it happens in real life. So now with the world advancing on technology it is a good time to think how much have we advanced and how harmful this is going to be.
Computers have made our life easier but nuclear bombs have made it miserable, technology has changed our lives in every way possible, Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom says technology often has unintended consequences and that we may have to choose between totalitarianism and and annihilation. He Believes when humanity solves a problem, but the unintended side-effects of the solution create new ones,But his vision of a totalitarian future shows why the cure might be worse than the cause.
Artificial intelligence
There are people who talk about the advantages of AI, how AI can change the world but there are also people who suggest research on ice societal effects as AI is omni present its feature to control everything at the same time is questioned. Today AI is being used in various different fields to perform discrete jobs such as photo enhancing, camera, financial asset management etc., does giving it a power to control everything in our life is a leap in human society?. The answer for this question will always be normative but it all comes down to which will be the best for us, giving the power to AI or controlling it ourselves there are many people in the world who believe AI can destroy us.we will have to wait and see to know more.
Neural chips
Many of you may know neural chips because of Elon musk‘s neural link ( a company working to produce products to be inserted in human’s brain), do you want to put a chip in to your brain or do you prefer to stay human? Neural chips may hands your brain but is it worth it what is the chips starts to control human minds what is the alter a person‘s mood. IT experts have issued warnings against these chips saying new viruses can be created and it will lead users to act unethically and damage their mental and physical health if a virus wants to enter a chip it could potentially damage not only are used as brain but other parts or functions of his body. This chip was recently in news as they conducted a test of the chip on a monkey and it was able to play ping pong on a computer using its mind! They have also claimed that this would help people with paralysis to walk and talk(video below).
Dominant religions in the world Christianity, Judaism, Islam believe that the world started with a man and woman in a magical forest this is not believable now by seeing how much human species have evolved. Announcement by the Chinese scientist Dr He that he had found a way to edit Gene provoked protests and many warned this could have a grave risk, but still editing gene can be used to treat genetic diseases which it good in some way or the other. Technology is a vast area to argue on and the decisions taken are always normative in nature what we believe today may not be true tomorrow if you end up saying something tomorrow it might sound stupid just like Thomas Watson the founder of Dell believed that there was room for only five computers in the world. You never know what map and but the future is in our hands.
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