This is an issue that bothers some of the greatest minds in the world right now, from Bill Gates to Elon Musk.
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, describes AI as our ‘biggest threat to existence’ and compares its development to ‘the call of the demon’.
He believes that super-intelligent machines can use humans as pets.
Professor Stephen Hawking said it was almost certain that a major technological disaster would threaten humanity in the next 1,000 to 10,000 years.
They could steal jobs
More than 60 percent of people fear that robots will lead to fewer jobs in the next ten years, according to a 2016 YouGov survey.
And 27 percent predict that it will reduce the number of jobs ‘a lot’, with previous research suggesting that employees in the administrative and service sectors will be hit the hardest.
Aside from the fact that other experts pose a threat to our work, they believe that AI can ‘get sneaky’ and become too complicated for scientists to understand.
A quarter of respondents predicted that robots would become part of everyday life in just 11 to 20 years, with 18 percent predicting that it would happen within the next decade.
They can ‘go crooked’
The computer scientist, Professor Michael Wooldridge, said that AI machines can become so complicated that engineers do not fully understand how they work.
If experts do not understand how AI algorithms work, they can not predict when it will fail.
This means driverless cars or intelligent robots can make unpredictable decisions ‘out of character’ during critical moments, which can put people at risk.
For example, the AI behind a driverless car may choose to push pedestrians in or get stuck in barriers instead of deciding to drive sensibly.
They could wipe out humanity
Some people believe that AI will wipe out people completely.
“Ultimately, I think human extinction is likely to occur, and technology is likely to play a role in this,” DeepMind’s Shane Legg said in a recent interview.
He calls artificial intelligence, or AI, the ‘biggest risk for this century’.
Musk warned that AI poses more of a threat to humanity than North Korea.
If you’re not worried about AI security, you should. Much greater risk than North Korea, ‘the 46-year-old wrote on Twitter.
‘Nobody likes to be regulated, but everything (cars, planes, food, drugs, etc.) that is a danger to the public is regulated. AI should be too. ‘
Musk has consistently advocated for governments and private institutions to enforce regulations on AI technology.
He argued that control measures were needed to protect machines from outside human control