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Is AI good for humanity?

The advancements in the past few years have pointed to the radical potential impacts of Artificial Intelligence in the world. While the AI is an amazing technology, will AI be good for humanity? Or will AI bring us a dystopia?

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Yes, AI is good for humanity

This position holds that artificial intelligence is on balance beneficial, because it extends human capability in medicine, science, education and ordinary work, and because the problems it raises are governable rather than inherent to the technology.

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No, AI is not good for humanity

This position holds that artificial intelligence is on balance harmful, because it concentrates power in few hands, displaces human judgement and labour, and advances faster than the institutions that would have to govern it can respond.