Week1: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
The rise of artificial intelligence is a growing topic that needs a lot of research. Artificial intelligence is impacting the present and future of human life and industries. It acts as the primary driver of upcoming technologies such as robotics, big data analytics, and Internet of Things and will still be a technical innovator in future (Haenlein & Kaplan, 2019). While artificial intelligence has been there for over 30 years, it is still unclear to researchers how it will negatively or meaningfully impact human life. Therefore, they must understand its threats and come up with effective ways of dealing with those threats. AI is the greatest threat and greatest hope of humanity because it is the cutting edge of the evolution of intelligence itself and with that intelligence comes power (Miailhe, 2017). The rise of artificial intelligence comes with many positive impacts but there are threats including privacy violations, automation-spurred job loss, deep-fakes, weapons atomization, and inequality that can be solved by coming up with adequate safeguards that would help in regulating the AI itself.
Artificial intelligence is affecting and may affect work in most occupational groups. The most affected populations are likely to be those in white-collar and better-paid occupations including some in agriculture and manufacturing positions (Haenlein & Kaplan, 2019). Technical, finance, and business industries will be most affected as will production and resource industries. AI is generating increasing interest in the working population as technology is achieving superhuman performances in different tasks ranging from legal contracts to manufacturing to radiology (Adams-Prassl, 2019). While research on automation software and robotics continues to exhibit that lower-wage and less-educated workers are likely to be most exposed to AI’s displacement, current analysis implies that better-paid and better-educated workers are likely to the most affected by AI.
References
Adams-Prassl, J. (2019). What if your boss was an algorithm? Economic Incentives, Legal Challenges, and the Rise of Artificial Intelligence at Work. Comp. Lab. L. & Pol’y J., 41(1), 123.
Haenlein, M., & Kaplan, A. (2019). A brief history of artificial intelligence: On the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence. California management review, 61(4), 5-14.
Miailhe, N. (2017). Understanding the Rise of Artificial Intelligence. Introduction. Field Actions Science Reports. The journal of field actions, (Special Issue 17), 5.
