AI is neither good or bad. The issue is how is it used? I was chatting with a friend about his son's experience at Essex Uni.reading politics. Seems a lot of students use AI to write well crafted essays and get top marks when they don’t actually do the work.
I think they already are. I think when mixed with robotics it starts getting scary, I hate the thought of androids, probably because masks, puppets, clowns and stuff like that really freak me out, my immediate instinct is to lash out, I think I'd end up with more than the usual breakage that inevitably ensues when I'm around things with silicon chips, the android would probably end up with bits broken and missing.
I don't think humanity is wise enough yet to have anything like the tech we do.
I don't like the sort of AI assisted customer (dis)service bots we have now, I'm trying really hard to think of anything thats been made better by it? Maybe some of the scanning techniques in medicine and archaeology.
I don't think we've anywhere near enough law and regulation around it, we don't have enough for the horrible uses the tech we have now, let alone in the future.
This would be a bit like asking are people good or bad I think. You could answer either way, or both or neither. I don't think there is a binary choice here. Regardless, it was probably inevitable given how technology progresses through history, and the best intentions for any invention can always be subverted for less desirable outcomes.
