Three of the Biggest Risks of Artificial Intelligence

  Without a doubt, artificial intelligence is promising. That said, its progress also contains a series of truly transcendent dangers that deserve reflection. Advances tend to be so closely linked to technology that, in many contexts, we forget that they’re two separate dimensions. However, the secondary effects of certain devices are extremely important. Hayden Belfield, a scientist at the Center for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge (UK), recognizes only two transcendental inventions/discoveries for our evolution: the invention of fire and the discovery of nuclear energy. Artificial intelligence could be the third, mainly because of the…