Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Wade

University of Maryland University College

Synopsis

Artificial intelligence has the potential to do extremely useful and extremely harmful things for the world. AI could lead us into a new age of advanced civilization with the ability to perform tasks in a fraction of the time it would take a group of people to do. It could even lead us into an age of logical immortality with a mind to computer transfer or a synthesis of robotic-human hybrids that would be the final step in human evolution. AI also could be very destructive to our society with the potential of outsourcing the entire human workforce causing unemployment to rise. AI presents the possibility of an end to human to human civilization with advancements in robotic weaponry and soldiers. With all of this, is it worth the risk of building new AI if it means that there is a chance of harm to human society?

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Computers are a relatively new invention that have forever changed how humanity functions. Today, about 3.2 billion people have access to a computer (Internet World Stats, 2015). If we look at how much technologies have changed just in the past decade, we will see that it seems to be growing exponentially. With how technology is advancing many inventors and scientists have looked into the idea of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) presents itself as an idea of being able to effectively and efficiently solve numerous problems that the world currently faces, in addition to this, it will help lead to understanding of the functions of the human mind (Neumaier, 1989). Artificial intelligence presents itself as an ethical issue due to us not fully understanding how it works and what potential it represents. Many people see it as a threat to how humanity functions. If a machine can be self-aware and understand and think for itself, how is a human supposed compete with it, after all, machines were made to make the...