Refine
Year of publication
- 2023 (1)
Document Type
- Master Thesis (1)
Language
- English (1)
Has Fulltext
- yes (1)
Is part of the Bibliography
- no (1)
Keywords
- Artificial intelligence (1)
- Ethics (1)
- Human nature (1)
- Threats of artificial intelligence (1)
Institute
The literature review at hand addresses the following research question: “Does artificial intelligence and its future development potentially pose a significant threat to individuals’ well-being and humanity’s ethical values?”. For providing answers to the topic at hand, three hypotheses are investigated in detail out of which H0: “Artificial intelligence does pose a significant potential threat to individuals well-being and humanity’s ethical values.” is accepted in accordance with evaluation of findings gathered from 121 sources overall. Threats of artificial intelligence were identified in overall five fields of application, namely medical science, transport industry, potential militarization, surveillance as well as in interaction of artificial intelligence with consumers, for which the natural language processing model ChatGPT was investigated. Regarding medical sciences, threats include potential dehumanization effects through care robots equipped with artificial intelligence. In the transport industry, multiple issues may arise with autonomously operating vehicles while in potential military application of artificial intelligence, research is conducted in multiple countries. Regarding surveillance, artificial intelligence severely facilitates the implementation of social credit systems, as for instance seen in China. Additionally, human nature is embedded in the context of continuous development of artificial intelligence with aim of establishing a first approximation to guidelines of potentially needed limitations of further development of artificial intelligence.
It is concluded that, for implementing specific limitations on development of artificial intelligence, more research is needed for identifying the most suitable approach of limiting further development of artificial intelligence.