Artificial intelligence: Why we should be worried

Ever since the field of artificial intelligence research was founded at a conference at Dartmouth College in 1956, it has undergone a rapid expansion of applications to a multitude of other fields and subjects. Starting off originally as a way to compute mathematical equations, artificial intelligence is now used in everyday items on a regular basis. This technology can be seen through obvious examples, such as Siri on your iPhone, characters in video games and in the currently developing technology that will power smart cars. It is also prevalent in more subliminal cases, like fraud detection on your credit card, news generation by popular information outlets like Yahoo! or Fox, purchase prediction on Amazon or recommended viewings on Netflix. Perhaps one of the most popular examples of A.I. technology today is IBM's supercomputer, otherwise known as Watson, which appeared on a special addition of Jeopardy! in 2011.