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12 Risks and Dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

AI has been hailed as revolutionary and world-changing, but it’s not without drawbacks.

Written by Mike Thomas

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UPDATED BY

Brennan Whitfield | Mar 01, 2024

REVIEWED BY

Artem Oppermann

As AI grows more sophisticated and widespread, the voices warning against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence grow louder.

“These things could get more intelligent than us and could decide to take over, and we need to worry now about how we prevent that happening,” said Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI” for his foundational work on machine learning and neural network algorithms. In 2023, Hinton left his position at Google so that he could “talk about the dangers of AI,” noting a part of him even regrets his life’s work.

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1. Lack of AI Transparency and Explainability 

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2. Job Losses Due to AI Automation

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3. Social Manipulation Through AI Algorithms

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4. Social Surveillance With AI Technology

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5. Lack of Data Privacy Using AI Tools

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6. Biases Due to AI

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7. Socioeconomic Inequality as a Result of AI

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8. Weakening Ethics and Goodwill Because of AI

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9. Autonomous Weapons Powered By AI

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10. Financial Crises Brought About By AI Algorithms

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11. Loss of Human Influence

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12. Uncontrollable Self-Aware AI

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