With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, "intelligence" has become a lifestyle and social trend, and technology is changing the living environment and habits of human beings. Smart life has come to us. Sweeping robots, AI smart speakers, cooking robots, face recognition, etc. appear in our lives, bringing us great convenience.
More and more intelligent machines, home, travel, medical care, education, artificial intelligence have made great contributions to improving people's living standards. However, everything has pros and cons, and the various problems and potential hidden dangers caused by artificial intelligence are becoming more and more obvious, making people from all walks of life worry.
On April 27, 2017, the famous physicist Stephen Hawking gave a video lecture at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing. In his speech, Hawking believed that artificial intelligence may also be the terminator of human civilization.
Hawking once signed an agreement with scientists on artificial intelligence and published the "Open Letter to Stabilize Artificial Intelligence and Benefit from It." He also established a related research center, calling for avoiding loss of control in the process of researching artificial intelligence.
Anthropologist Hu Jiaqi also raised concerns about artificial intelligence, a few years earlier than Hawking. He pointed out, “Artificial intelligence is a branch of computers. It is dedicated to researching intelligent machines that are similar to human intelligence. Such machines can think like humans and deal with problems like humans. The future development of artificial intelligence must surpass humans. "At present, more people are worried that artificial intelligence will exterminate human beings. If intelligent robots lose control of their programs or awaken their self-awareness, they may exterminate humans."
In the face of the rapid development of artificial intelligence, we must not only see the good and ignore the bad, but must recognize the social problems it brings.
Mass unemployment: According to the 2016 press conference of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the unemployment rate in China reached 4.05% at the end of 2016. With the large-scale use of intelligent robots in the future, the unemployment rate will continue to increase. The robot will not make mistakes, will not be tired, do not need rest, do not need salary. This can completely replace many simple occupations. This will cause a large number of people to lose their jobs and cause social instability.
Human spiritual life is degraded: artificial intelligence machines have no emotions. If your side, your classmates, and your friends are all artificial intelligence robots at this moment, will you be able to stand it? The current society is a material society, but also a spiritual society. If there are more and more robots, the world will have no emotions, no joys, angers, sorrows, and coldness everywhere. There is no art, no spiritual food, mechanized everywhere.
Robots are very dangerous: For example, the movie "Me and the Robot" describes the tragedy of a robot that eliminates humans. Once artificial intelligence is out of control, human beings are restricted by evolution and cannot compete with it. With the rise of artificial intelligence systems, humans' worries about losing control of it will gradually increase.
From this, we still need to do a lot to reduce the risk of artificial intelligence.
With the progress of "weak artificial intelligence" and the birth and prosperity of "strong artificial intelligence", mankind will enter an era in which the "best" and "worst" coexist. If artificial intelligence technology is controlled by humans, human civilization is likely to rise to a higher level, and some wonderful technologies will emerge as the times require. If it gets rid of human control, the situation facing humans will be extremely complicated, and it is not impossible to stage the tragedies in the "Terminator" series of movies.