Living in the Age of AI

 One of the biggest concerns is that AI will overtake the jobs of many people because there are many jobs that are easy to automate. I think it is sad but many jobs will be overtaken by AI which will be able to do them more efficiently than humans. It's a scary thought for many that the education they are getting or the job they hold currently could be totally obsolete in 10-20 years due to AI. Along with the cashiers, and warehouse workers that are mentioned in the video many other jobs will be replaced soon according to Forbes. Jobs like data entry, customer service, analytics, and even graphic design could be replaced by AI among others. This is the AI concern that scares the most people especially the ones who hold these jobs or a currently in school for a similar field. 

In the video, McTaggart was talking to a Google Engineer who said he would be horrified if he knew how much Google knew about him. This is another huge concern with AI learning patterns is that it can help tech companies farm data about everyone and use it to their advantage. He was surprised to learn that Google's business model is based on finding out as much about you as possible, and I think it is not very surprising as every company wants as much information as possible because information is power. The cons with this invasion of privacy are the companies will naturally learn things you don't want them to know. The pros are that targeted ads can be useful if you want to buy something, but it is too creepy to really be worth them farming your information. 

If Facebook can claim that it can influence people to vote or even their mood on a given day what's to stop a foreign government from analyzing these patterns themselves. I think the ability of tech companies to predict whatever they want could just as easily be used for harm by a foreign government. In that way, the entire internet is a threat to national security if a foreign government gets access to records that are kept by Facebook or Google. 

Even if AI is simply trying to improve user experience it naturally learns information by spying on us. This blatant manipulation is a danger to privacy that Zuckerberg apologized to Congress for in the video, and yet Facebook has not stopped harvesting information. While companies might have reduced how much information they are farming because of the law that McTaggart got passed on privacy it will not stop them. This is why we must be wary of what we do on the internet because everything we do can and will be tracked.