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But as the technology evolves, experts are cautioning about the potential threats AI could pose in the future.
"AI could be used to deal with particular issues around privacy and surveillance and things like this," Antoine Blondeau, chief executive of Sentient Technologies, told Al Jazeera at the Web Summit in Lisbon.
"That would bother me a lot and it would bother others.
"So yes, it can be used for bad outcomes. It's incumbent on us to make sure it's not concentrated in the hands of people who can implement this without checks and balances."
Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner and world-renowned physicist, drew attention to the dark side of AI last month.
"Alongside the benefits, AI will also bring dangers like powerful autonomous weapons and new ways for the few to oppress the many," Hawking said.
"It will bring great disruption to our economy and in the future AI could develop a will of its own."
For the moment artificial intelligence poses no immediate or obvious threat, but experts say it is a matter of time and work needs to be done now.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 12 2016, @07:14PM
To pay for universal/basic income the wealth the robots generate has to be enough _and_ it has to be diverted to the people (which might not happen esp in countries like the USA where even many of the working class are against the evils of socialism ;) ). Similar for the other scenario.
So basically the robots would be like the slaves in Greek times while citizens can just do what they find fun, be philosophers etc.
A potential issue would be if the population grows beyond the resource extraction rate. But this might not happen at all.
(Score: 1) by Kenny Blankenship on Saturday November 12 2016, @08:15PM
You both bring up what I think is the key point - maybe this could be addressed politically in some other country, but it's not going to happen in the U.S. At least half the U.S. voters are afraid that they'll be tied down by Lilliputians and forced to pay for their welfare. They're way more afraid of the tiny welfare parasites than the giant CEO parasites. They're not going to change their minds about that until the shoe is on the other foot, and by then it'll be too late.
Let's forget about a political fix for now - is there any other alternative?
Someday, even Killer Meteors must fail.
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Sunday November 13 2016, @06:12AM
If you thought poor migrants were a problem: just wait until the (now) automated jobs don't materialize after president Trump closes the borders.