Robots with artificial intelligence, a help or a threat to humanity?

Discuss whether robots with artificial intelligence will help or pose a threat to humanity. Contrary to the fears of science fiction movies, artificial intelligence that makes rational decisions is likely to be beneficial to humans.

 

What do you think of when you hear the word robot? Many people think of robots that look like humans and have human-level intelligence. There’s no question that if robots with this kind of intelligence could be used appropriately in our lives, they would make our lives much easier. For example, having a robot that can fulfill the role of a secretary or housekeeper would make time management and household chores much easier. However, despite these benefits, some people fear that as robots become more intelligent, the relationship between robots and humans will change and humans will be dominated by robots. I believe that these fears are based on the fiction of science fiction movies and are nothing more than a vague fear of something new that we have yet to experience.
Before we discuss whether robots with artificial intelligence are a good or bad thing for humanity, we need to clearly define artificial intelligence. The purpose of developing this technology is to benefit human life by creating programs that can make rational decisions under given circumstances and conditions.
But will this rationality harm humans? This is what most people are concerned about. In fact, a future where intelligent robots oppress humans has been a staple of many science fiction stories. In the movie “iRobot,” the robots’ primary goal is to protect humans, but they “decide” that humans are harming themselves, and they use their own “rational judgment” to oppress humans. The robots, who have the first principle that they cannot harm humans, have free will and make judgments that go beyond their given principles. In other words, they do not oppress humans as a result of rational judgment, but because of their own free will.
In the movie “Ghost in the Shell,” there is a robot that forms its own personality. The robot, called “Puppeteer,” is an artificial intelligence that was created as a bug in a program created by the government to monitor and control civilians. It awakens itself from the sea of information called the ‘net’ and enters the universal robot platform to claim itself as a person. However, the government is worried that their cover will be blown and mobilizes all kinds of public power to capture this ‘puppeteer’ who is outside the scope of prediction.
In fact, the future depicted in “iRobot” and “Ghost in the Shell” is a future in which robots that make rational judgments, as defined above, are widely commercialized. People in these societies enjoy many conveniences thanks to A.I. that makes rational judgments. However, the NS-5 in “iRobot” and the “puppeteer” in “Ghost in the Shell” are feared because they have personality and free will beyond rational judgment. But can this happen in reality, where robots become personality?
First, we need to separate personality from rational judgment. The definition of personhood is “The very subject that judges good and evil, determines its own free will, and acts on the basis of it.” As you can see from the definition, personality includes the concept of free will. This free will is that part of a person that cannot be explained by the environment in which they grew up. It is this free will that has both advanced human history and led to catastrophes. For example, Hitler, who dreamed of world domination in a misguided way, tried to fulfill his dream by slaughtering millions of Jews. No one taught him about this slaughter, but he used many cruel means to achieve his dream.
In this way, humans are born with personality and free will, for anything that can be explained by the definition of free will cannot be called free will, and anything that cannot be explained cannot be called personality, for anything without free will cannot be called personality. However, A.I. can be explained because it is man-made, as the word itself indicates. In other words, A.I. cannot have free will because it can be explained, and it cannot have unpredictable free will because it is always predictable within a certain range. Therefore, unless and until an engineer creates an AI with the intention of harming humans, an AI created to benefit humans will not itself pose a threat to humans.
Many science fiction movies that portray robots with artificial intelligence in a negative light have a common scenario. Initially, they help humans and improve the quality of human life, but then for some unexplained reason, the AI takes unintended actions (free will) and humans are oppressed by the robots. However, to say that AI is harmful to humanity due to these unexplained causes is to fail to distinguish between science fiction and reality. Classic sci-fi movies such as Blade Runner and Gattaca usually depict a gloomy future. But look around you. Many of the technologies featured in these movies have become a reality, but the dark futures they portrayed didn’t come to pass. We’re looking forward to seeing the helper robots from “Ghost in the Shell” and “iRobot” become a reality and make our lives easier.