The Dangers of Artificial Intelligence and Robots to Humans

Since the creation of humanity, humans have always been on the lookout for an easier way to do everything. For example, one of the oldest known inventions, the wheel, was created around 3500 B. C. to make transporting large or heavy objects easier and faster. These days, there are inventions such as the printer to help publishing, telephones for communication and most recently, robots and artificial intelligence. Informational and well known internet website ThoughtCo states that the very first ever digitally automated robot was created in 1954.

First of all, artificial intelligence and robots should not be part of human daily lifestyle since humans are lazy by nature and if they all owned robots that could do everything for them, this could have drastic health consequences, then, big companies are not always as trustworthy as their customers imagine and they often steal and sell their customers personal information to bigger companies, and finally, though they were invented to help us, it is possible that robots will one day develop the intelligence to doubt the power that humans own and will resist against them. Firstly, robots should not be part of human’s daily life, humans are shown to be getting lazier and fatter every generation. Indeed, some might say that exercise and sports are not as popular or important as they used to. This is caused by engineers facilitating their life, in fact, they keep making inventions that facilitate human basis such as walking, with the invention of the electrical scooter for younger kids that do not have to work hard to go places.

There is also a big problem since obese people are now legally allowed to own and use a wheelchair and skip certain lines because of their condition which will not encourage them to walk or lose much weight since they get advantages from being that way. Researches show that in the past twenty years, the obesity percentage in the United-States has gone from 20% to 60% for adults. These results are very scary and if the trend continues, in another twenty years, 100% of the United-States will be obese which is why humans should not rely on machines to do such basic things as much as they currently do. Secondly, artificial intelligence should not be part of human daily life because it has been reported in the past that companies such as Facebook have been stealing personal information from their daily users and reselling them to companies such as Apple, Coca Cola and other popular brands so the ads fit the interests of the customer. Since all this data was most likely to be recorded by an artificial intelligence, it means they know more about humans than humans know about what artificial intelligence can do.

Finally, most people agree that robots and AI is very useful and that there is almost no harm to own them since they will do whatever they are asked to. On the contrary, others think that super advanced technology should not be a part of human daily life because some of these artificial intelligences have the capabilities to learn more information, faster than most humans can. Indeed, it is commonly feared that artificial intelligence will one day become self aware of its existence and wonder why it has to respect the orders it is given and not get anything in return if most humans get paid for jobs similar as theirs. Another concern would be religion, if robots had thoughts they would think humans are their Gods and though different religions will be born and fight each other since they will disagree on which human is the best God.

But, as explained by Rajesh Sathya on an article he wrote on Quora, atheist robots will be the biggest concern for future generations since they will not treat them as their creator but as a useless life form that claims to be important. Which might end up in these machines to fight us. In conclusion, artificial intelligence should no be a part of human daily life since humans are lazy and need to take care of themselves without any automated machines, they can also record information which would mean that if someone had a fully automatic robot in their house, it could be recording them and finally, artificial intelligence might become to smart and think they are the superior species. Though they will probably not cause that much harm it is definitely safer to live in an environment without this technology. In the end, will there ever be a time period where robots will have confirmed all the fears humans have are nonrealistic and live with them in harmony?

Thesis statement: First of all, humans are lazy by nature and if they all owned robots that could do everything for them, this could have drastic health consequences, secondly, big companies are not always as trustworthy as imagined and they sometimes steal or sell their customers personal information, and finally, though they were invented to help us, it is possible they will one day develop the intelligence to doubt the orders they are given.