AI

 In class, we watched a video about how AI could change our future, across many different topics and covering many other dillemas with the new machines. The main ones I'd like to focus on are the benefits of the modern invention like highly advanced modern medicine, as well as the cons, which could include a loss of jobs, as well as data mining and theft.

There are so many positive aspects of life that can be gained through AI, and my favorite example is through medicine. AI and powerful computers may aid doctors to find cancer cells before they are a bigger problem. This technology could help so many people, and that makes me think optimistically about hospitals, doctors, and health care work in the future.

However, all of these benefits artificial intelligence may bring into the lives of people may be easily overshadowed by the cons thereof. These drawbacks include the mass amounts of people getting laid off by their employers, as well as a worldwide sense of personal privacy being lost amongst all of the data mining machines that exhist. At the time of writing this, there are still quite a few jobs around that will definitely not be there in ten years, and some even by the time I graduate college. If I had wanted to be a truck driver though, my luck would be even tougher. In the video, I learned about a new type of truck that could drive itself from point A to point B. Although there would still be a driver in the cab, the truck would handle most of the freeway driving itself, making truck driving a soon to be extinct job. I'm also worried about the future in terms of data collection, because I am not as careful as I should be when I am online, and I need to watch myself when I opt in to services or allow malware (cookies) to operate on my devices. 

All in all, AI is a double edged sword, and if not wielded properly, could prove deadly.