What Are The Negative Impacts Of Artificial

Intelligence (AI)?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is doing a lot of good and will continue to provide many benefits for
our modern world, but along with the good, there will inevitably be negative consequences. The
sooner we begin to contemplate what those might be, the better equipped we will be to mitigate
and manage the dangers.

Legendary physicist Stephen Hawking shared this ominous warning: "Success in creating
effective AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilisation. Or the worst. So we
cannot know if we will be infinitely helped by AI or ignored by it and sidelined, or conceivably
destroyed by it.”

The first step in being able to prepare for the negative impacts of artificial intelligence is to
consider what some of those negative impacts might be. Here are some key ones:

1. AI Bias

Since AI algorithms are built by humans, they can have built-in bias by those who either
intentionally or inadvertently introduce them into the algorithm. If AI algorithms are built with a
bias or the data in the training sets they are given to learn from is biassed, they will produce
results that are biassed. This reality could lead to unintended consequences like the ones we have
seen with discriminatory recruiting algorithms and Microsoft’s Twitter chatbot that became
racist. As companies build AI algorithms, they need to be developed and trained responsibly.

2. Loss of Certain Jobs

While many jobs will be created by artificial intelligence and many people predict a net increase
in jobs or at least anticipate the same amount will be created to replace the ones that are lost
thanks to AI technology, there will be jobs people do today that machines will take over. This
will require changes to training and education programmes to prepare our future workforce as
well as helping current workers transition to new positions that will utilise their unique human
capabilities.

3. A shift in Human Experience

If AI takes over menial tasks and allows humans to significantly reduce the amount of time they
need to spend at a job, the extra freedom might seem like a utopia at first glance. However, in
order to feel their life has a purpose, humans will need to channel their newfound freedom into
new activities that give them the same social and mental benefits that their job used to provide.
This might be easier for some people and communities than others. There will likely be
economic considerations as well when machines take over responsibilities that humans used to
get paid to do. The economic benefits of increased efficiencies are pretty clear on the profit-loss
statements of businesses, but the overall benefits to society and the human condition are a bit
more opaque.

4. Global Regulations

While our world is a much smaller place than ever before because of technology, this also means
that AI technology that requires new laws and regulations will need to be determined among
various governments to allow safe and effective global interactions. Since we are no longer
isolated from one another, the actions and decisions regarding artificial intelligence in one
country could adversely affect others very easily. We are seeing this already playing out, where
Europe has adopted a robust regulatory approach to ensure consent and transparency, while the
US and particularly China allows its companies to apply AI much more liberally.

5. Accelerated Hacking

Artificial intelligence increases the speed of what can be accomplished and in many cases, it
exceeds our ability as humans to follow along. With automation, nefarious acts such as phishing,
delivery of viruses to software and taking advantage of AI systems because of the way they see
the world, might be difficult for humans to uncover until there is a real quagmire to deal with.

6. AI Terrorism

Similarly, there may be new AI-enabled form of terrorism to deal with: From the expansion of
autonomous drones and the introduction of robotic swarms to remote attacks or the delivery of
disease through nanorobots. Our law enforcement and defence organisations will need to adjust
to the potential threat these present.

It will take time and extensive human reasoning to determine the best way to prepare for a future
with even more artificial intelligence applications to ensure that even though there is potential for
adverse impacts with its further adoption, it is minimised as much as possible.

As is the case with any disruptive event, these aren’t easy situations to solve, but as long as we
still have humans involved in determining solutions, we will be able to take advantage of the
many benefits of artificial intelligence while reducing and mitigating the negative impacts.

Impacts of Artificial Intelligence in everyday

We need to think of it as putting a more human face on technology: Technology that can learn
from the vast amounts of data that are available in the modern world; Technology that can
understand our kind of language and respond in kind; Technology that can see and interpret the
world the way that we do.
Let us look at some scenarios where Technology can play a huge part in our lives :

• Imagine if we could search our surroundings in the same way we search the web. Using existing
cameras and advances in AI, we can now find things and people in the real world, in real time
and take action to improve safety and well-being. When a dangerous spill occurs in a chemical
plant, cameras recognize the incident, information about the spill is instantly shared with the
people who need it the most enabling them to protect other employees from coming in contact
with the hazard, and clean it up.
• This technology can also help keep people safer in hospitals. Patients recovering from heart
surgery are limited to how much they should exert themselves. When someone exceeds the
prescribed level of activity, a nurse is alerted, the location of the closest wheelchair is identified
so that the nurse can quickly get the patient shifted and keep safe.
• This technology is also useful in an environment like a construction site where specialized tools
needed by people are spread out, sometimes across multiple floors. Using cameras already in
place, this technology can identify a specific tool as well as the closest authorized person who
can deliver it saving everyone’s time and keeping the workflow moving. With AI the digital and
physical worlds have come together to make everyone more safe, secure, and productive.
• When using smartphone we interact with AI from the obvious features such as the built-in smart
assistants (Alexa, Siri) to not so obvious ones such as the portrait mode (Google Pixel 2) in the
camera. With Social Media becoming non-separable part of today’s life, the feeds that we see in
our timeline to the notifications that we receive from these apps everything is being curated by
 AI, impacting most of the decisions we make. The recommended videos section on Youtube or
Netflix has become so good at knowing our tastes because AI is playing a big role in making
decisions for us.
• Whenever we use Google/Apple Maps for navigating or calling an Uber or booking a flight ticket,
we are using AI. AI is behind many of Google’s products and is a big priority for the company.
The banking and finance industry heavily relies on artificial intelligence for things like customer
service, fraud protection, chatbots, investment.
• Spam filters in our email inbox and Smart email categorization that we experience with Gmail
are AI-powered. E-commerce web application sites use AI neural networks to quickly return a
wide list of the most relevant products as well as personalized recommendations on the home
page, bottom of item pages and through email to increase their revenue tremendously.
• Brain.fm uses extensive research and trained professionals to produce music written and
performed by AI. Receptiviti.ai allows us to analyze the psychology, personality and decision-
making style of an individual by inputting a block of text, such as an email or blog post. Clarke.ai
is an AI bot that dials into our conferences calls and does all the note taking work for us. Causal
chess players regularly use AI-powered chess engines to analyze their games and practice
tactics. AI-based Australian AgTech business firm The Yields in association with Microsoft takes
microclimate sensing data and combines it with predictive modeling to help farmers improve
their production and reduce their risks.

As illustrated above all of our lives are impacted by AI on a daily basis at every level. Artificial
Intelligence became the most important part of our daily life. Our life is changed by AI because
this technology is used in a wide area of day to day services.