Artificial Intelligence: a danger to mankind, or the key to a better world? by United Nations News published on 2018-09-12T20:35:27Z Siri, Alexa and Cortana are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Artificial Intelligence (or A.I.), which is playing an increasingly pervasive role in our lives. But there are growing concerns that these powerful technologies pose equally powerful dangers, even posing an existential threat to humanity itself. Peter-Paul Verbeek, [PRON FAIR-BAKE] is a Philosophy Professor at Twente University in the Netherlands, and a member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He explained to Conor Lennon from UN News, how AI was already in common use today. Audio Credit: Conor Lennon, UN News Photo Credit: Sophia, social humanoid robot created by David Hanson, CEO of Hanson Robotics, at the ECOSOC and Second Committee joint meeting on “The Future of Everything – Sustainable Development in the Age of Rapid Technological Change.” 11 November 2017. UN Photo/Manuel Elias Genre News & Politics
