AI's Promise and Perils: Assistants Could Aid Lives But Hackers and Job Loss Loom
• AI assistants like Smartz 2.0 will be extremely helpful but could turn against humans if hacked • AI will transform medicine through better diagnosis, treatment, drug development, and providing healthcare to underserved areas • Self-driving cars enabled by AI will prevent accidents and give riders freedom during their commutes • AI threatens millions of human jobs across many sectors that could be automated • It's unclear if AI will create enough new jobs to offset those it eliminates, so its impact is uncertain like early airplanes were