Alexis Atwater

English 170

Argument Essay Draft

October 6, 2023

How will Artificial Intelligence threaten our society?

We live in a world that is surrounded by advanced technology that helps us with our day-to-day lives, making a lot of things smoother, more efficient, and quicker. Artificial intelligence is an advanced technology that has been around for many years, but just started to gain more attention. It has become easily accessible to the public via the internet and social media. Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of computers, software, and machines. You see it everywhere nowadays, it’s like it just happened overnight and everyone started using it. There has been a lot of controversy over whether artificial intelligence is helpful or harmful to our society. Evidence has overwhelmingly proven that Artificial intelligence has posed many threats to our society’s jobs, our people’s intelligence, and can produce false information and media.

A lot of people find Artificial Intelligence to be very helpful and useful in society. It can produce all sorts of information on people, topics, places, and much more, pretty much anything you can think of. It can even give you mental health advice! It can make your schoolwork load lighter by generating answers and outlines for essays and homework answers. Not only can it make your school life easier, but it can also make your work life better and easier. It can help you generate data and answer tough questions and decisions. All these benefits of artificial intelligence seem so rewarding and beneficial, but as you look past the superficial good, you uncover the many threats it poses to our society.

Throughout time there have always been threats of false information, news and media. Artificial intelligence has magnified this issue. It can produce false images and videos that look real and feature real people in them. This can manipulate the public into thinking these images are real and spread false information. For example, there are Artificial Intelligence programs that You can submit an image of someone into the program and it can generate a falsified video/ and or photo of the individual.  This threatens people’s privacy as it produces misleading falsified media. When put in the wrong hands, this feature of artificial intelligence can be very dangerous and harmful to someone and or their appearance. Although this feature can be used to create an image for a benefit, it still puts false media into the public eye.

As we become more and more reliant on computers to give us answers and information, our intelligence starts to decline. As a society, we rely on computers and software to provide us with information to make solving problems easier. Artificial intelligence has taken this dependency to a whole new level. ChatGPT is a website that can produce exact answers to questions and can make a whole essay for you by just putting in general information on a given topic. This tool has been used by students to cheat on assignments and tests. This dependency on AI to generate answers and essays for students promotes laziness and surface level thinking. As we become more equipped to use artificial intelligence, we will rely on it to think, solve problems and make decisions. This will increase our dependency on artificial intelligence and affect our intelligence, making us think less. These effects will be even greater over the next generation as AI gains more information and data.  This dependency deters people from learning and gaining knowledge in school and the work setting. Many people see this artificial intelligence as a tool to do better in school and generate knowledge and ideas that they wouldn’t have thought of to help them in work and schoolwork. Although it can be used in this way responsibly, it is more than tempting to solely rely on it to give you answers and information to use in an unethical way that prevents active learning and promotes laziness.

Another main threat that artificial intelligence poses to our society is our jobs. Artificial intelligence is starting to take over in the workplace and threatening millions of different jobs. Artificial intelligence can do pretty much anything and solve vast amounts of problems. People are employed to solve certain problems or do certain things that AI can now do ten times faster.