WILL AI ROB US OF OUR LIVELIHOOD?










Technology is an area which undergoes monumental changes to create more amenities for us. A recent brainchild of software engineers is Artificial Intelligence or AI. AI, as the name suggests, is artificially simulated intelligence that helps in altering some algorithms to match the demands of the user. Like everything ever created, AI has its pros and cons.

We are surrounded by AI and we have used it indirectly, if not directly. In fact, popular assistants on our phones like Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant are, in fact, the gifts of AI. Nowadays industries have manufacturing robots that speed up the manufacturing process and make it efficient. Similarly, robotic surgery is a new invention in the medical world. By doing complex surgeries through robots, people can benefit from the deft movements of the robotic ‘hand’.  Hospitals have reaped a lot of benefits from AI. Banking and finance are other sectors that have profited from AI. There are virtual financial advisors and other helping bots that can assist people on any problem they might have and can provide them with advice related to finance. Distribution of information, problem-solving and related aspects are services provided by AI in almost every sector. An example of this is the chatbox we see on websites.

All these gifts of AI definitely help us ease our work but if we look at each of these gifts, we will notice that they have actually replaced the workforce. What was previously done by hand is now being done by machines. Robots still need human doctors to operate them, but what do we do when AI has grown so much that it is capable of replacing the doctors? Financial information is easily available to people through virtual devices and this is a testimony of the fact that bank and finance experts’ positions are in jeopardy.

AI is still young. More and more developments are to come in this area. If it has taken over some jobs right now, who knows what is to come? This side of AI proves Mahatma Gandhi’s point true. He believed that technology must be used in production as long as it doesn’t take away the work that provides a livelihood for the people. We need to remember this now more than ever. In the end, let us remember to make technology a slave and not be a slave to technology.


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