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Are You Scared of AI?
A recent Monmouth University survey has found that only 9 percent of Americans believe that computers with artificial intelligence will do more good than harm to society. When the same survey was conducted 35 years ago, about one in five said AI would benefit mankind. In other words, people have less complete 1 in AI now than they did dozens of years ago, when the technology was more science fiction than reality.
“It’s 2 that there is public doubt about AI. There absolutely should be,” said Meredith Broussard, an artificial intelligence researcher and professor at New York University. Most Americans 3 agree with Broussard that AI has a place in our lives, but not for everything.
When asked questions about 4 in which AI might be used, most people said it was a bad idea to use AI for military aircraft that try to distinguish between enemies and civilians. Some are worried about the 5 use of AI in policing, disturbing people’s privacy. Most respondents said it was a good idea for machines to perform risky jobs such as coal mining.
The term “AI” is a catch-all for everything. It can be the constant use of technology, such as our daily preference to autocomplete in web search queries (关键词). It can also be the software that 6 to predict crime before it happens. People afraid of AI may be influenced by 7 of evil computers from books and movies — like Skynet, the super-intelligent machines in “The Terminator” movies. Broussard said the ways AI can end up destroying your quality of life won’t be as 8 as murderous fictional computers.
Actually, the fear of AI 9 due to the fact that we just don’t know where AI is going and how soon it will take us to get there. Technology makes surprising and unusual leaps and 10 in ways we never think it will. Anyway, whether we like it or not, artificial intelligence is here to stay.
