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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: 2) by Non Sequor on Saturday November 12 2016, @10:51PM
Automation of mundane tasks also results in legal liability associated with those tasks and any possible adverse outcomes that might occur being concentrated on whoever makes the software. The presence of a human in a car also alters the actual punishment for stealing the car or its contents as well as psychological perception of the risk and ramifications of any theft.
The short story is that people treat machines differently than they treat people and that has implications for the ability to completely replace people with machines.
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