AI: Useful Or The Beginning Of The End? - AI Summary

As things stand, AI is already a dominant field in technology and every year grows exponentially as researchers continue collecting data and innovating new applications for it. There also exists the ethical discussion surrounding how the current state of AI affects employment, industries, and how far we are from AI singularity. Through lack of care when feeding data related to social equity, gender, race, sexual orientation, and even over- and under-representing groups, we are left with AI that discriminates just as we do, and perhaps even worse as AI frequently is used when dealing with things at scale (Manyika 1). This can also be seen in medical schools and job applications where incompetent AI have taken opportunities away from various groups who may somehow have been discriminated against in the AI's training data. In parallel, as more companies examine our online behavior, more training data is gathered for AI focusing predominantly on ads and suggestions.