Artificial Intelligence: Potentials and Consequences of Its Application

The academic debate about whether artificial intelligence is really an intelligence is far from over, but new technologies have already broken into the life of modern society. There are many fields of its common use and ways of its application are diverse. For instance, in medicine, it is used to preserve human health and save people’s lives, while it is applied to exactly the opposite purposes in the military sphere. All these generate hopes and fears, even euphoria and expectation of the end of human history at the same time. Neither the limits of artificial intelligence’s capabilities, nor the consequences of its use in the near future, and even more so in the long term, are yet clear. Will humankind be able to develop and use new technologies for good or will it let powerful destructive forces into life? What are new technologies really capable of and what will remain just fantasies? What directions will the development of new technologies take? All these issues remain a debatable area for now.

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