Some voices, like Harari, are raising fair and
important concerns about the dangers of AI and the uncontrolled way in which the industry
is evolving at such a rapid pace. However, even AI reluctants talk about the unquestionable
benefits that AI can bring to our lives, some of which include improving healthcare. AI can support
better diagnosis, identify health problems earlier with more accuracy, and predict the spread of
disease. It can identify sick patients before they infect others, and it plays a significant role in
drug discovery and pharmaceutical advancements. In terms of better education, with the help
of AI, everyone can now have their personal learning assistant—one that can adapt
learning to match each student's goals, strengths, weaknesses, background, and so on.
Regarding reducing the impact on the environment, AI can help us tackle environmental
challenges by optimizing resource usage, monitoring climate change, and predicting
environmental disasters.
For example, AI can optimize energy usage in buildings or
traffic flow in cities to reduce carbon emissions. In smarter agriculture, AI is being used to
increase crop yields and optimize farm operations through precision agriculture. This involves using
AI and other technologies to monitor crop health, predict weather patterns, and make farming more
sustainable. In terms of safer transportation, AI plays a significant role in the development of
autonomous vehicles, which have the potential to make transportation safer and more efficient.
AI can also optimize logistics and supply chain operations, which, on an individual level,
obviously adds up and expands on a societal level.
AI is making us more productive. It can
augment our natural capabilities and, overall, makes us better, smarter workers and
thinkers. While doing all of the positives I've mentioned, it also creates new businesses,
new roles, and a new type of innovation. Sure, it's also replacing a lot of roles, and that's a
fair, legitimate worry in the AI public discourse space. But all industrial and technological
revolutions have had similar fears in common, and in the end, the world simply reshifted and
rearranged in a new order of opportunities..
