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Discussion on: Jack Ma vs Elon Musk Debate — Different perspectives of future of AI

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Jonathan Burnhill • Edited

It's all a double edged sword wether we like it or not!

I feel like the biggest problem is most AI we hear about is directly to do with business which will have implications.

Another problem is we have 7 billion people we cant garuntee to feed or provide adequate housing for today and the numbers ARE rising!

We need a big AI trying to solve this problem, maybe the super rich can be persuaded to view poorer nations as a long term investment, you need money to finance most ideas and as most AI is financed for business it leads to a vicious cycle over profit margins, reliability etc and there isn't much hope we're all going to be employed!

AI is an incredible exciting thing but unfortunately we will mainly benefit from consumerism and not entirely as a solution for all people to be garunteed a minimum baseline standard of living, one day maybe but not in our lifetime!!

If basic ethics are applied it would be a dream to work a few hours a day and spend more time doing the things we are passionate about.

AI isn't problem, we are!

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Saeed Ahmad • Edited

Jonathan I agree completely to you. Unfortunately, we as human beings are responsible for this and every revolution which was a chance to improve the situation of mankind in terms of making world a better place for all, we misused it. Let us go back into history, we can see that Industrial Revolution which brought a chance to improve us was misused and many people were killed in WWI and WWII. Atomic technology was also misused in the same context and millions of people have been killed and affected due to effects of use of nuclear weapons and incidents related to this. Same goes for AI. The future of mankind can be only saved by giving leadership positions to sensible people. Like there are reports that AI technologies related to face recognition are being in use by a particular country against a minority for mass surveillance. So, we have greatest responsibility on our shoulders as professionals that tech we are developing is only used for good.

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Greg Ruminski

Atomic technology was also misused in the same context and billions of people have been killed and affected due to effects of use of nuclear weapons and incidents related to this

Excuse me? Billions of people killed by nuclear weapons and atomic incidents?

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Saeed Ahmad • Edited

Sorry.It's a typo.I meant millions. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyll, Wars around the world are an example. If we count both killed and effected, counts are not countable.

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PatrickServ..

We indeed are the problem.