The Risks and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence or AI as it is commonly referred to, is often depicted in science fiction as a threat to humanity. In Sci-Fi dramas, it is the machine that has taken on a life of its own and gone wrong. Usually from its own initiative, the sci-fi buff the risk and challenges among other things is to stop and end a certain threat. The one indisputable fact that experts are unable to argue and can commonly agree to is that computers live on data. The other fact experts and novice alike can agree upon is that AI is a machine or as Dr. Zhou describes "a tool" whose use of data and the source of the data are the possible risks and challenges for our present and future societies.