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Maurice Brown English 11 B Thematic Performance Task Does technology make us more or less free? How can technology be used to give more freedom to more people and how can it be used to limit freedom? Artificial intelligence can be good a really good thing because it helps make everyday life easier, but it can also be a really bad thing because it can eventually replace humans. Artificial intelligence is the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. All artificial intelligence can be put in three different bands, Artificial Narrow Intelligence, where a machine is programed to have a particular expertise, Artificial General Intelligence where a machine’s …show more content…

50% of all jobs are now open to be automated. This even includes the traditionally professions like law, accountancy and medicine. A college , professor Martyn Thomas in his video lecture warned that if displaced workers are not adequately retrained and if the state does not fairly distribute the wealth generated by the a boom in AI the social disruption could be huge. This could endanger people’s economic, social and cultural rights. (https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk) Machines learning based on human behavior can risk transferring the historical biases in our society to machines. This can lead AI used for policing or loan approval systems would entrench discrimination on the grounds of race and gender and this behavior is prohibited by article 14 of the human rights convention. Another danger is that personal data retained by AI will be accessed for criminals or political purposes. These kinds of attacks risk undermining our human right to privacy, which is protected by Article 8 of the human rights convention.

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