Benefits and Risks of Artificial

Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is changing Brian Nguyen

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What is AI?
● Theory and development of ● Human-like tasks: visual
computer systems that can perception, speech recognition,
perform human-like tasks decision-making, and translation

● Examples of (narrow/weak) AI:

Siri, self-driving cars, internet ● End goal: create general AI that
searches can outperform humans at
nearly every cognitive task
The Importance of AI
● Without a doubt, AI will have an ● Superintelligence might
impact in many facets of our life help eradicate war, disease,
(i.e. economics and law) and poverty

● “Success in creating AI
● However, recognize that
would be the biggest event
superintelligent AI isn’t
in human history.”
guaranteed to be beneficial
-Stephen Hawking
How can AI be Dangerous?
The Intentional and Unintentional Negative Consequences

AI programmed to do something devastating AI programmed to do something beneficial, but

develops destructive methods for achieving its
goal

● Autonomous weapons; could easily cause mass ● Fail to fully align the AI’s goals with ours
casualties ● May accomplish the task in a catastrophic way
● May lead to war and more casualties
● Designed to be extremely difficult to simply
“turn off”
What Future Do You Want?
● Should we develop lethal autonomous weapons?
● Should we have a jobless society where everyone enjoys a life of
leisure and machine-produced wealth?
● Will we control intelligent machines or will they control us?
● Will intelligent machines replace us, coexist with us, or merge with
us?