Advantages

Besides making life easier for humans, AI has other benefits as well. Although many people believe that AI is taking over jobs and leading to unemployment, recent studies have also shown some favorable results. Essentially, if there is a demand for robot ‘employees’, there will be a surge in jobs based on creating new technological innovations (Borenstein, 2011). Even though the gap of unemployment is larger, a rise in employment is still possible considering the need for more AI technology (Borenstein, 2011). For employers, an advantage of AI in the workforce is that they are more cost efficient compared to regular human workers and in some cases can be more proficient and reliable (Borenstein, 2011). More so, many believe that AI in jobs could prevent abuse of human rights, such as child labor (Borenstein, 2011). Many industries have benefited from artificial intelligence, such as the medical and automation industry (Brubaker, 2018). Specifically, the medical industry views AI as a great advancement to detect new diseases and medical concerns earlier (Brubaker, 2018). An example of this would be positive results garnered from kids with autism through AI (Brubaker, 2018). This development has also allowed the automation industry to save a lot of money, even though there are many ethical issues involved with that (Brubaker, 2018). From an economic perspective, many businesses that are AI-driven have seen growth due to significant global investment, which has increased to over 5 billion dollars during the year 2016 (Brubaker, 2018).