Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced a $2 billion investment in AI related research while Department of Defense (D0D) created a Joint AI Center to accelerate the AI in defense. On the other hand, China has a big ambition with a plan to lead the AI field by investing $1 trillion by 2030. Similarly, Vladimir Putin has publicly said that "the nation that leads in AI will be the ruler of the world." As the world superpowers are gearing up for AI arms race, how does that impact the whole humanity? Will it create a better future for us or lead to our doom?

Governments could already be plotting to make use of brand new tech, including drones adapted into missiles, fake videos and auto-hacking tools, the Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence report warns. Within five years AI could "go rogue" and be utilized by criminals. Lifelike videos and speech impersonation could be used to target individuals, while drones could be launched to physically attack a person, the report says. Miles Brundage, research fellow at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, said: "AI will alter the landscape of risk for citizens, organisations and states -- whether it's criminals training machines to hack or'phish' at human levels of performance or privacy-eliminating surveillance, profiling and repression -- the full range of impacts on security is vast. "It is often the case that AI systems don't merely reach human levels of performance but significantly surpass [them].