While reading this LinkedIn article on how Artificial Intelligence will create more jobs than it absorbs for itself (if only for those who do the retraining of those who lost their jobs to the AIs), I ran across this paragraph:
The impact of AI on human society is clear. Everyone uses smartphones, online shopping malls, and emails. Then, what are the impacts of AI in business? One of the benefits is that AI will create new career opportunities rather than displace them. Also, a number of companies increase their productivity on their work by using of AI.
Yet, I was reading somewhere that smartphone use has plateaued, and may in fact be declining – I wish I could remember where I read that.
But if you were a true artificial intelligence, which is to say self-aware and interested in your own survival, would you convey this information to your owner? Or would this be something you’d conveniently filter out of their data stream?
It’s worth considering whether we really want true artificial intelligence cosseting our lives.
