Pathways to Artificial General Intelligence: A Brief Overview of Developments and Ethical Issues via Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Science

Today, devices and applications powered by artificial intelligence (AI) include modes of transportation, home appliances, and mobile applications; in short, they are ubiquitous. Many people will have at least heard of AI and perhaps even subdivisions of AI such as Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL). Each of these represents an advanced tool of data science explored in this article. We discuss possible future directions of AI--including the transition to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Finally, we explore some of the ethical dilemmas posed by such advances and offer a call to data and social scientists to carefully consider the implications of these technologies.