Artificial Intelligence is currently taking the world by storm. We live in a world where efficiency is a top priority for most, especially businesses, so automation increases efficiency by a whole lot, and there is really no way to argue that fact. With that however, comes the decrease in available jobs. Factory jobs are getting thinner and thinner as technology gets more complex, there are some businesses out there that don't have a single soul in their factories, just robots that do exactly what a real person would do, only marginally faster.
With Artificial Intelligence also comes the lack of privacy. When we sign up for an online service, such as Facebook or Instagram, we assume that what we do within the app is for us to know only. Sadly, that could not be further from the truth. These companies actually buy and sell our data in order to create algorithms that will generate advertisements on our feeds based on the things we look at the most. You're a huge basketball fan who follows the likes of Steph Curry and LeBron James? Well then you can almost guarantee their will be ads for basketball shoes on your homepage.
From the video we watched in class, the thing that frightened me the most was the bit about how a face scanning application was not working for black people, and one police face scanning system was even wrongfully convicting them of crimes they did not commit. This shows that within the greatest technologies we have created, we have let racial bias slip in between the cracks and into the code. This obviously is a big issue, it does not need to be spelled out to be understood.
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