Five of the scariest predictions about artificial intelligence

A common fear among analysts, and indeed workers, is the likelihood that AI will result in mass global unemployment as jobs increasingly become automated and human labor is no longer required. "Job losses are probably the biggest worry," said Alan Bundy, a professor at the University of Edinburgh's school of informatics. According to Bundy, job losses are the primary reason for the rise of populism around the world -- he cites the election of President Donald Trump and the U.K.'s decision to withdraw from the European Union as examples. "There will be a need for humans to orchestrate a collection of narrow-focused apps, and to spot the edge cases that none of them can deal with, but this will not replace the expected mass unemployment -- at least not for a very long time," he added. Proponents of AI say that the technology will lead to the creation of new kinds of jobs.