Editorial: Seven threats AI presents to the future of our society – Marin Independent Journal

Explores the risks posed by AI in seven areas:

• Who will take responsibility if an AI military system goes “rogue” with devastating results? ...
• AI could eventually replace a quarter of the full-time jobs in the United States and Europe. Computer programmers, marketing researchers, media workers and teachers ...
• Privacy: The surveillance potential of AI is off the charts... [given] zero progress in the last decade on protecting Americans’ privacy from tech companies ... AI exponentially increases the problem...
• algorithms are only as good as the information provided ... How can AI technology ensure that biases aren’t built into the system? ...
• education... [AI could] speed the process of learning... must [not] stifle students’ learning processes and creativity... must also avoid bias in what students learn and not exacerbate the ever-widening achievement gaps ...
• What can be done to reduce the threat of cyberattacks as AI increasingly manages our most important infrastructure? ...
• AI makes it ridiculously easy to exponentially accelerate" misinformation and disinformation campaigns.