What if in the near future, your computer will have a conscious and have the ability to be empathetic and express feeling? What if facial recognition will be the new form of a driver's license and credit card? What if all forms of transportation are autonomous, eliminating the need for a human operator. All of these scenarios will be made conceivable by artificial intelligence (AI) development. AI refers to the construction of a machine or program that will be able to emulate human intelligence, such as decision-making or speech recognition. While AI will be revolutionary in how society lives immensely, not all of it may be positive. Raising concern and controversy for many, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and the late Stephen Hawking.
To replace walking far distances, they developed a better form of transportation, the horse and carriage. The horse and carriage was sufficient for a few centuries; however, it is human nature to always improve and be more efficient. The inventor of the Model T automobile, Henry Ford, realized he could not design a faster horse to meet his needs and had to find another solution. Companies implementing AI to replace humans will cause the inevitable loss of jobs and unemployment because technology gets better, faster and cheaper at a rate humans cannot match. With the development of autonomous cars, driving is more reliable and safe because of the car’s state of the art sensors and their inability to get distracted nor tired. Companies implementing autonomous cars can replace humans; therefore, eliminating the need to pay salary while being more reliable. According to the American Trucker Association, there are 8.7 million trucking-related jobs in the United States. What will happen to those workers if self-driving trucks promised by Tesla’s Elon Musk are being implemented by companies like Amazon or
This is already being implemented by state judges in New Jersey, who are now using the Public Safety Assessment to assist in making pretrial decisions about defendants. Moreover, Noory Bechor, a commercial lawyer tired of the fact that 80 percent of his work was spent reviewing contracts, designed LawGeex, a platform for automatized contract review. On LawGeex, users upload a contract and, within an hour or two, they receive a report that states which clauses don’t meet common legal standards. All of this is calculated by algorithms, saving users about 80 percent of the time they normally use on contract review and 90 percent of the typical cost, let alone closing the deal three times