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The Negative Impacts Of Artificial Intelligence

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As our society continues to grow, and make advancements throughout all aspects of life, what scares our world the most? The answer should be Artificial Intelligence. What exactly is Artificial Intelligence or also known as the AI? The AI is “From SIRI to self-driving cars” (Williams). Artificial Intelligence will continue to impact society, despite the many negative impacts it brings to our world. In the upcoming years artificial intelligence could potentially take over our world by stealing our jobs, stealing our privacy, and stealing our identities as humans. Artificial Intelligence could potentially take over our world by stealing our jobs. In todays society, Artificial Intelligence is more than just a robot. These machines are programmed to act as human as possible, which is why all our jobs are in jeopardy. Drum states, “By now everyone’s heard the predictions that self-driving cars could lead to 5 million jobs being lost, but few people understand that once artificial intelligence software is good enough to drive a car, it will be good enough to do a lot of other things too. It won’t be millions of people out of work; it will be tens of millions” (Drum 4). Unfortunately, AI seems more appealing to employers because “for the purposes of employment, we don’t really care if a smart computer has a soul- or if it can feel love and pain and loyalty. We only care if it can act like a human being well enough to do anything we can do” (Drum 8). The AI will make perfect employees in the work place because humans according to Drum are “expensive, they show up late, they complain whenever something changes, and they spend half their time gossiping” (8). It is very clear why the AI would be very appealing to employers, but what about the actual aspects of having a human employee. Unlike humans, the AI do not have feelings, so they are unable to make personal connections and bonds with clients which can put up a wall. This aspect is very important in the fields of medicine such as doctors, or dentist because patients want to come in and feel welcomed, and have a personal bond with these types of professional individuals. Williams states, “Millions of white- collar workers could now be at risk according to

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