Age of AI

  As AI has become a bigger and bigger part of our everyday life, we run a lot of risks the more we advance it. For example, in China, they have used a social credit system where cameras have been installed throughout the country and use artificial intelligence to track their citizens, who they are, what they do, and who they hang out with. Every part of their day to day life is monitored by the Communist Party.

This causes major privacy problems for their citizens and the minority groups like the Uyghurs, who are under constant surveillance with all of their movements tracked as if they are all assumed to be criminals. Government surveillance like this is a real threat to the privacy of citizens around the world. As other countries see what China is doing, they themselves may decide to do something like it, even if it is not on that scale. It seems like whenever the government gets a new way to get control and invade our privacy, they do it. 

There are some positives to the advancement of AI. While the government may be able to use it to keep surveillance on us, it could help people like the police solve crimes or ID criminals that we may not have been able to identify before. AI has also helped companies increase their ability to manufacture their products at a higher and cheaper rate, but that also comes with many Americans losing their jobs.

Some experts had said that the job loss in some fields will be made up by new jobs in other aspects of the company, but I have a hard time believing that is anywhere near true. There is still a lot we do not know about AI. None of us can truly predict where it is going or what will be done with it, we just have to hope that the government and large corporations do right by us and do not abuse it. That seems unlikely, though.