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The True Danger of AI How the most dangerous thing about Artificial Intelligence is the opposite of what people think By Jackson Edwards
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ou just got back home after a long, tired day. You sink into a chair and begin to browse the endless pages of content for your favorite streaming service. There are so many good options today. And there were good options yesterday. And the day before that. It is like it knows what you want before you even know that you want it. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is everywhere. It’s the autocomplete on our phones, it is in digital assistants
like Siri, it even controls your TV show recommendations, and the advertisements that pop up on your screen. You are surrounded by it constantly, even when you do not realize it. AI is an increasingly important topic in our world. The problem is, there are a lot of misunderstandings about what AI is capable of. Roy Keyes, a data scientist who has experience in AI, explained that “Artificial Intelligence is trying to get computers to do
things that we consider require human-like thinking. So that could be how to play games, how to make certain kinds of decisions, how to do things that are complicated. Specifically we think of it as doing things that are not super simple.” A “narrow” or “specific” AI is trained to perform only one task as efficiently as it can, such as play a game or identify an animal in a picture. In contrast, a general AI would be one that is able to apply
