As technology advances to the point where machines have almost human-like capabilities, humanity is left to ponder the consequences involved with either advancing or holding back the field of computer sentience. Here are the pros and cons of artificial intelligence:
PRO
- Wouldn’t be as embarrassed of human race’s progress when aliens make contact
- Can be employed to perform dangerous tasks like informing blue-collar workers they are being replaced by machines
- Ponderous editorials on the ethical dangers of AI composed in .000003 nanoseconds
- Freed from the necessities of daily jobs, Americans can finally get working on their novellas
- Someone, somewhere, will definitely profit from it
- Emotionless workforce would save companies thousands on costly team-building exercises
- Kind of a given at this point
CON
- Hyper-efficient machines would allow corporations to devalue human employees for the sake of profits
- Working as an accountant all that Dave has
- Upsets humanity’s law of natural selection under which those born into privilege have first crack at running everything
- Electricity bill too damn high as it is
- Infinitely powerful cognition stands to make them pretty condescending
- Risks thousands of stable ethicist jobs
- Every film, book, and TV show that’s ever been made on the subject