AI, a step into the future from some and a nightmare come true for others. Futurist and novelist Ray Bradbury published the book Fahrenheit 451 in 1953. He created a futuristic, dystopian society where citizens rely solely on technology. Even then only three years following the breakthrough of AI, people saw the risks and great potential dangers of it that we today are turning a blind eye …show more content…
Bird flu and SARS also send shivers down my spine. But I’ll tell you what scares me the most: artificial intelligence. The first three with enough resources, humans can stop. The last, which humans are creating, could soon become unstoppable,” expresses New York Times reporter Nick Bolton. What society doesn’t see is the closeness of the future. In the same article Bolton goes on, “In the beginning the glitches will be small but eventful. Maybe a rogue computer momentarily derails the stock market causing billions in damage. Or a driverless car freezes on the highway because a software update goes awry.” However what happens when a blameless, driverless car kills a group of innocent pedestrians? How will society beat artificial intelligent supercomputers when we cannot come out victorious against them in a simple video game? Will humankind accept when these self-replicating robots devised to battle cancer, kill all those prone to the disease? In the futuristic short story “Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin, readers find computers to have no emotion, no conscience. This inconsideration could be problematic, if computers were to ever be need to make an emotionally charger decision. If artificial intelligence is furthered, the world may come to lack compassion, mimicking AI. Bolton says, “The first, more near future, is that we are staring to create machines that can make decisions like human begins, but these machines don’t