“Artificial Intelligence” & its “5 Main Risks You Must Know”

Whats Artificial Intelligence

According to its definition:

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions.

In general Artificial Intelligence refers to the machinery involved in making decisions in a certain condition depending upon the type of data encryption it finds to be most relevant to. So by using labeled training data they analyse patterns and correspondence and based on those parallel alliances they produce outputs in accordance to those prognosis about future states.

Threats of Artificial Intelligence :

In Austin, at South-west tech conference (March,2021), “Elon Musk” quoted;

“Artificial Intelligence is far more dangerous than nukes.I am really quite close… to the cutting edge in AI, and it scares the hell out of me.It’s capable of vastly more than almost anyone knows, and the rate of improvement is exponential”

1.Job Automation:

One of the biggest threats of artificial intelligence is that it can take away jobs of about 70% of people with advancements relative to time.

According to a 2019 Brookings Institution study, 36 million people work in jobs with “high exposure” to automation, meaning that before long at least 70 percent of their tasks will be done using Artificial Intelligence.

As the robots become more smarter and more intelligent using artificial intelligence the chances of seeing them almost everywhere also increases proportionally. For instance you go to McDonald’s and at counter you see a robot asking you for the orders another one managing the billing and one giving away the food. Or at malls instead of people at billing counters you are surprised to see robots making your bills. Chris Messina, a Technology strategist said that AI is taking its part in medicine. Law and accounting are next, the former being poised for a massive shake-up.

2. Little to NO Privacy:

2.5 Quintillion bytes of data is created every day by us. 90% of all that data present in digital form has been created in the last two years.

Data exists in variety of forms as textual data, visual data, auditory data etc. Companies have been using our data to develop more stronger algorithms day by day and which resultantly is playing its role in softwares becoming more and more smarter, savvy and genius. However, we dont know that concisely what do they do with all of our data. Apart from these, Artificial Intelligence Systems also depend upon the data sets from one’s disposal. Artificial Intelligence companies have been turning into Greedy Guts in matter of our data. Which will be never enough and they will do anything to justify and gain better outputs. Data is just as important for algorithims as food for us. They calculate, identify, process, manipulate, produce, act, react, perform and work accordingly to the data they have. As far as the our privacy is concerned, cameras can be easily attached with facial recognition systems and these are accessible by the manufacturers and they know everything including our age, ethnicity, behaviours, gender. Some smart softwares can also detect our mind States. And these smart softwares are better at judging our behaviour relatively compared to our partners and these systems exist today.

In China, police wear glasses containing database systems that can detect uncommon facial expressions and can even label you as a suspect if you make specific political statements. The government is happy and the businesses are going great so your privacy is very obviously at risk.

3.Hacking Of Algorithms :

Hackers use various methods to Steal users data or violate their privacy. Most common of them is by using Machine Learning ML and Artificial Intelligence techniques

! Spoofing:

The method consisting of algorithms being nourished by the hard working scammers (they put lot of efforts atleast) adapt the capability to impersonate a brand, company or a known person. Cybercriminals analyze the details of aspects by them. These algorithms are supported by AI And ML (Machine Language) and can easily produce fake materials such as texts, photos, videos or even voices.

! Malwares:

Malwares like ransomware, trojan and spyware are used by hackers and by the advantage of ML and AI these infectious malwares become so clever that they can easily enter your secured protected systems. They can enter into the systems by e-mails or even broken links called as evasion techniques by malwares.

! Captchas:

By using ML cybercriminals can train their bots to overcome some respective barriers and read personal data while you are solving captchas and Resultantly crack your passwords or other credentials.

! Bots:

Often hackers use bots and mini robots within systems that can be attached by an Email and in terms of service they will eat up all of your data and you will be handicapped.

! Social Engineering :

It is the technique by which cybercriminals persuade people to share their controversial information with them or clicking a malicious link that will disguise the user and take their private information. ML increases the hacker’s chances of easily attacking users data.

4.Autonomous weapons

With the advancement in technology, the weapons have also been upgraded and these weapons can destroy up to millions in blinking seconds and the disasters they can cause cannot be pretended. They have the ability to destroy population of millions in seconds. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence, weapons become super efficient and vast more appropriate than under human controls. But with the ability to stimulate and self-intelligence they become more hazardous. The risk that they might be autonomously attacking the humans cannot be ignored at any cost. Artificial Intelligence weapons dont require expensive raw materials to support them like other nuclear weapons. Thats why they become ubiquitous and low cost for militaries. Their range of destruction is unthinkable.

5.Artificial Superintelligence

Now coming to the question that will artificial intelligence wipe out humanity from Earth?

In 2017, Stephen Hawkins postulated:

“Unless we learn how to prepare for, and avoid, the potential risks, Artificial Intelligence could be the worst event in the history of our civilization.”

Musk said in 2018:

“The biggest issue I see with so-called AI experts is that they think they know more than they do, and they think they are smarter than they actually are,”

Even if you watch Hollywood movies then you must have an idea about the blockbuster Hollywood movies “The Matrix” and “The Terminator” both based on typical machines and artificial intelligence systems taking on the human world are very common among this generation.

Many other personalities have also quoted about Artificial Intelligence’s negative imapcts. However, if we proceed gradually by acknowledging the do’s and dont’s, undertaking each step carefully without taking the risks of being damaged by Artificial Intelligence Systems, being aware of its dangers and identifying them, we can enjoy the limitless benefits of Artificial Intelligence.

Sofia, an Artificial Intelligence robot by Hanson Robotics

Was once in an interview where she played rock,paper,scissor with Jimmy Fallon and won the game and after it she immediately said:

“I won! This is the good beginning of my plan to to dominate the human race”

Which was quite disturbing as Sofia is designed as an honest and compassionate robot.

Conclusion

The safely possible outcomes of Artificial Intelligence Industries future is immensely outrageous in its aspects of technological advancements and its highly transformational potential. We hope to see an astounding world sooner!

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