Artificial Intelligence.. Concerns & Positives?!

Today, the world is witnessing a frantic race in the field of "artificial intelligence", and amid this accelerated transformation, global concerns emerge about the negative before positive impact of "artificial intelligence" on the reality of humans, while security concerns and concerns arise in many countries, including China, which announced new legislation related to artificial intelligence, where all companies operating in China must pre-apply for approval to develop and use artificial intelligence programs, as it is ensured that they are suitable for use and do not contain What may constitute humanitarian, social, security or other risks.

In Europe, lawmakers have proposed a system for classifying the risks of AI programs, where the degree of risk in each program is known. The U.S. Department of Commerce has also released a public consultation document on the use of AI and the risks of its use to the general public, copyright, and property, as well as whether AI systems are biased in their results, have racist or exclusionary tendencies, or may help spread false and fake information.

The fears that people generally feel about the spread of artificial intelligence can be reduced to three things: the disappearance of privacy, the loss of jobs, and the superiority of artificial intelligence over humans in a way that makes humans lose control over the course of their lives. There are those who ask the following question if artificial intelligence can provide all solutions and carry out various tasks, but also do thinking instead of humans, and is better than them, what will be the role of humans in life?

It is true that there are similarities between the smart programs we use and artificial intelligence programs, but at the same time, there are important and significant differences. Traditional programs are instructions written in computer language, which perform calculations or any numerical tasks that are specifically and categorically required, as they give the same result every time we use them, and this is a great advantage for these programs because we want them to work like this at all times.

It is known that the maximum degree of development intended for artificial intelligence programs to reach is the ability of the program to enjoy self-awareness, like a human, where the computer feels itself and can make its own decisions, outside the control of its developers, but this level of artificial intelligence is still difficult to achieve, and it is just theoretical assumptions that cannot be achieved.

However, the race is frantic among the tech giants in this field, as Google has "Alpha Go", an artificial intelligence model that emerged on the scene in 2016 because of its excellence in playing a sports game known for its reliance on intuition, acumen, and physiognomy, rather than relying on mathematical calculations that can be easily implemented by a computer.

IBM has a "Watson" system that was intended to produce a Chabot, as is done in corporate customer services, based on natural language processing sciences and neural networks, and then the program developed to be used in several medical, commercial, and educational fields. Tesla's autopilot software is capable of controlling the course of vehicles by reading camera, radar, navigation system, and map data and using it in digital vision, deep learning, and motion technologies.

The robot Sophia from Hanson Robotics Company excelled in its simulation of humans in shape, speech, and movement, by employing artificial intelligence in understanding the human voice and using natural language processors in speech and speech like a human, a robot that obtained Saudi citizenship in 2017.

In conclusion, the general fear of artificial intelligence is largely understandable, as we mentioned because of privacy, job loss, and low human value. However, there are other parties that fear these developments for many reasons, some of which are security concerns as felt by the security authorities in general. Moreover, some of them are economic concerns that can occur if one party precedes another party in probing the depths of this modern technology. In addition to the presence of fears of the unknown in any form, this is what prompted some to ask for patience in deploying artificial intelligence and expanding its uses.