In The Age of AI

 The video we watched was very informative about the history and future of AI. As proved with the live streamed Go match, AI is smarter than humans are. They're able to endlessly study information to learn every way to complete a task, and even form their own decisions based on that prior knowledge. AI is the world's current technology that is exploding and perhaps may create enough change to be deemed an AI revolution.

China is leading the globe in e-commerce and heavily utilizes facial recognition. I find it concerning that they seem to be in "the lead" with AI technology and have done so in less than three years. I am however, aware that China uses AI technology to control their citizens and place fear in them not to misbehave. They use facial recognition to detain prisoners of state and send them to internment camps. An oppressive government with state of the art technology is bound to use all they can for the protection of their interests and total control of the population. This is one big problem with AI technology, as many technologists fear the work they do will not be used for good and rather for evil.

Aside from corrupt government usage of AI, those in the tech industry have expressed numerous concerns over unpredictability, regulation, lack of "common sense" in AI, global politics, autonomous weapons systems, privacy, and many more. AI's threat to national security is a top concern. AI would most likely be used mainly for the operational level of war. Concerns come at AI's ability to value ethics and take them into consideration. It would need to be decided how much autonomy an AI weapon would be given-- how much control the AI would have. AI in the strategic level of national security would most likely hold influence in management, employment, and development of military force. As of now our defense department has promised only a human would be in charge of the powers able to kill another, but if AI operates that weapon and has the ability to decide a course of action based on what it knows about the climate of the world, lines blur. 

AI being used to detect identity theft will be a game changer. AI will be of most use if a large company has a data breach, and clients information is swirling onto the internet. AI will be able to identify identity theft much faster than a manual analysis, which can often still miss thefts. AI will perfectly run authentication tests, pattern recognition, and can monitor behavioral analytics. AI will greatly help online security  since depending on the size of a business there can be hundreds of billions of signals that will need to be analyzed to calculate risks of enterprise attack. Humans can no longer complete tasks of that level, and an AI who can do it in minutes is the future of online cyber security. 

Privacy is very big at stake in the developing climate of AI. It is feared that AI collects too much data, as they track all online activity for an individual. Many people don't like the idea of companies having data on everything they've ever done. This data isn't deleted, so big tech companies just have tabs on everything you've ever searched for in their possession. This is concerning when third parties get involved, like advertisers who buy your data to then know what they should display to you. This can also be done at a government level, and in that case AI is therefore spying on you for government use. When companies state how they use their AI, it is also easier for hackers to access that data and corrupt it. There seem to be nothing but cons for our privacy in this AI changing world, unless users obtain the ability to delete online data, or decline the sale of it to third parties. 

Some good things about AI include: increased justice for trials or fines, avoidance of discrimination, more informed decision making, reduction of human error, 24/7 availability, new inventions, daily applications, unbiased decisions, digital assistance, shortening of tasks, medical applications, improving workplace safety, and much more. AI is something that should be accepted slowly with thought about how you want it to aid in your life and how much faith you put in it. While there can be many very bad consequences, I still believe AI will transform our world in many positive ways.