Is Artificial Intelligence Really a Threat? - markITwrite

The past couple of decades have seen technology forge ahead relentlessly, enabling us to communicate in unprecedented ways, work more smartly and from any location, carry our phones in our pocket and much more. And artificial intelligence has evolved somewhat too, alongside all of the'usual' tech that we use daily, bringing with it a more urgent perceived need to consider the threat that it might pose. Bill Gates has come out to state that he's firmly in the'AI is a threat camp', so too has Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest thinkers of our time. But not everyone is in agreement with them. At the Dublin Web Summit, I attended a talk – the name now escapes me unfortunately when it comes to who it was by – and when the speaker, a high profile tech name (that much I do know) was asked about the threat posed by AI, he said something that I found interesting.