2. Job Automation
• Job automation is generally viewed as the most immediate
concern
• It’s no longer a matter of if AI will replace certain types of
jobs, but to what degree
• 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
— ranging from retail sales and market analysis to
hospitality and warehouse labour — will be done using AI
3. Risk on Humanity
• While job loss is currently the most
pressing issue related to AI disruption,
it’s merely one among many potential
risks
• In a February 2018 paper titled “The
Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence:
Forecasting, Prevention, and
Mitigation,” 26 researchers from 14
institutions enumerated a host of other
dangers that could cause serious harm
— or, at minimum, sow minor chaos —
in less than five years
4. Risk of Privacy
“Malicious use of AI,” can put our
privacy at risk
Now everything is exposed to the
internet and people who are expertise in
this field have started misusing the
power of artificial intelligence
AI will adversely affect privacy and
security
5. AI Bias And Widening Socioeconomic
Inequality
Widening
socioeconomic
inequality sparked by
AI-driven job loss is
another cause for
concern
Along with education,
work has long been a
driver of social mobility
However, when it’s a
certain kind of work —
the predictable,
repetitive kind that’s
prone to AI takeover —
research has shown
that those who find
themselves out in the
cold are much less apt
to get or seek retraining
compared to those in
higher-level positions
who have more money
6. Autonomous
Weapon
Not everyone agrees with Musk that AI
is more dangerous than nukes
But what if AI decides to launch nukes
— or, say, biological weapons — sans
human intervention?
The more than 30,000 AI/robotics
researchers and others who signed an
open letter on the subject in 2015
certainly think so
7. Stock Market
Instability
• Have you ever considered that algorithms
could bring down our entire financial
system?
• Algorithmic trading could be responsible
for our next major financial crisis in the
markets
• A sell-off of millions of shares in the airline
market could potentially scare humans into
selling off their shares in the hotel industry,
which in turn could snowball people into
selling off their shares in other travel-
related companies, which could then affect
logistics companies, food supply
companies, etc
8. Risk for Artists
A lot of critics believe that AI will disrupt
the art industry because it enables
artists to express themselves more
easily
It also eliminates some costly tasks
such as drawing or painting which
leaves less time for artists to have a
chance at making a living from their art
Some people believe that this new type
of technology will replace humans in
society and therefore there won’t be
any need for human-based art
9. Risk of AI in the
Medical Industry
• These concerns include the risk of
bias, lack of clarity for some AI
algorithms, privacy issues for data
used for AI model training, security
issues, and AI implementation
responsibilities in clinical settings
• There are some ethical problems
faced by AI clinical applications
10. Social manipulation
Social media through its
autonomous-powered
algorithms is very effective at
target marketing
Investigations are still underway
to determine the fault of
Cambridge Analytica and others
associated with the firm who
used the data from 50 million
Facebook users to try to sway
the outcome of the 2016 U.S
By spreading propaganda to
individuals identified through
algorithms and personal data, AI
can target them and spread
whatever information they like,
in whatever format they will find
most convincing—fact or fiction
11. Misalignment
between our
goals and the
machine’s
Part of what human’s value in AI-powered machines is
their efficiency and effectiveness
But, if we aren’t clear with the goals we set for AI
machines, it could be dangerous if a machine isn’t
armed with the same goals we have
Without specifying that the rules of the road must be
respected because we value human life, a machine
could quite effectively accomplish its goal of getting you
to the airport as quickly as possible and do literally what
you asked, but leave behind a trail of accidents