Gadget Persuasive Essay

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The End First, there were gadgets like the wooden crank phone, now, due to the evolution of technology, we have Apple’s iPhone with the Artificially Intelligent Siri. A dispassionate apparatus only thinking out of logic, not driven by emotion. In life threatening circumstances an inexpressive machine will only do what it is made to do even if that means exterminating the lives of many. Due to the potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) its research and development should be slowed or stopped because this could lead to the extinction of humanity. Evidently, some may believe AI will be a gift to humanity and view it as “harmless” but those few fail to realize that we are creating a beginning to our undoing. The human race strives …show more content…

We know a simple glitch or malfunction in the software can affect the whole system, as we experience in video games and viruses in our very own computers. This same problem can also occur in AI gadget resulting in terrible consequences. “The human brain is the most complex system we know of by orders of magnitude. Replicating the sort of intelligence that humans display will likely require significant advances in AI.” Says writer Toby Walsh. This may be true, however: “Artificial Intelligence won’t be like us, but it will be the ultimate intellectual version of us.” Barrat expresses. Sure, these gadgets can help out, but when “helping out” means no more Homo sapien life then that’s the end of our era. In brief, due to the potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) its research should be slowed or stopped because this could lead to the extinction of humanity. The continuation of the AI is dangerous and could result in a mechanical world without human life. We fantasize a futuristic utopia not knowing our reign will end by the hands of our own

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