crowd from surveillance cameras. These computers are not really intelligent in the way that humans are but can appear to be better than a human when used in very limited tasks like playing chess or Alpha Go.
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AI can provide many benefits that are benign in terms of impacting what it means to be a human being, yet the push by big tech to create applications - “just because we can” - is creating bigger problem for humanity in terms of reducing freedom, privacy, moral responsibility, jobs.
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This is sometimes true and is often one of the main reasons that we use AI applications such as digital assistants like Alexa or Siri. Whilst there is nothing wrong with convenience per se, we need to consider the unforeseen costs of convenience. Children are becoming less empathetic, less willing to engage in one on one relationships and can develop stereotypical expectations from the behaviour of such assistants and robots.
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We don’t want to stop innovation but innovation should serve us rather than the other way around. It is for this reason that governments sometimes have to regulate to protect their citizens from the harmful effects of products and services that companies or even individuals produce. Regulation of drugs and addictive substances are a good example of where regulation is needed to temper innovation and to require rigorous testing to pick up side effects and harms.
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