ROBOTS MIGHT TAKE OVER THE WORLD

 By Tina X.

Have you ever wondered how Google seems to know what you like? Have you ever noticed how smart the internet has become? People around the world are developing smarter and more dependable AI (artificial intelligence) as we speak. The question is, where is the line? Will people continue to develop AI so much that it’ll be running our businesses for us? Will we become so reliant on it that we forget how to do everyday tasks without it? Here is my theory about why it is likely that robots might take over the world someday.

Some people will immediately shake their heads saying ‘Robots or AI taking over the world only ever happens in sci-fi movies. It’s not possible for them to actually take over.’ I understand where those people are coming from but really think about it. Every year, we get new ideas for AI. Every year, we come up with better and smarter versions of it. We’ve begun to develop self-driving cars, which are run by AI. We also already use AI for simple everyday things like Google Search, Smart assistants (like Siri), and even on social media where it’s used to prevent spam messages. Of course, AI is extremely helpful, but what would happen when it becomes so advanced that it’s able to take over all of our roles in society and run it for us? What would happen to us then? Would we simply live at home playing video games while robots and AI ran the world? What would become of the world? I think AI is useful in everyday life, but there needs to be a line. AI can’t become something that we can’t live without or else life will lose its meaning and we’ll all be basically living in the shadows of robots.

Of course, there are other scenarios where AI develops some evil idea and begins to build its own robotic form and takes over the internet, shuts down all communications and hatches a plan to take over the world, which, is possible, but I’ve already used up more than one page, so I’m not going to get into that.

Overall, we should be careful with where we’re going with AI and robots because they can easily take over the world.