{"id":1585,"date":"2018-03-26T06:46:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2018-03-26T16:29:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T20:29:05","slug":"will-artificial-intelligence-improve-the-world-or-make-the-world-unbearable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/03\/26\/will-artificial-intelligence-improve-the-world-or-make-the-world-unbearable\/","title":{"rendered":"Will artificial intelligence improve the world, or make the world unbearable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1568\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/AW03262018-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1568\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/AW03262018-8-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Will artificial intelligence improve the world, or make the world unbearable?\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will artificial intelligence improve the world, or make the world unbearable?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Both? Continuing the superhero theme, &#8220;With great power comes great responsibility.&#8221; Any new technology solves some problems and creates others. Cars were much faster than horses, but people died a lot more often while driving them. Facebook makes communication much easier than mailing a letter, but also can be a platform for user manipulation. AI will probably solve a lot of problems and allow us to focus less on mundane tasks. But it will almost certainly lead to its own problems; potentially mass unemployment and\/or even more structural racism. For more potential problems, checkout I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (PS3551.S5 I2 1950b).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both? Continuing the superhero theme, &#8220;With great power comes great responsibility.&#8221; Any new technology solves some problems and creates others. Cars were much faster than horses, but people died a lot more often while driving them. Facebook makes communication much easier than mailing a letter, but also can be a platform for user manipulation. AI &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/03\/26\/will-artificial-intelligence-improve-the-world-or-make-the-world-unbearable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Will artificial intelligence improve the world, or make the world unbearable?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[189],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tech","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}