The biggest risk with AI, in the medium-term at least, is it will be used by governments and organizations with power to surveil and manipulate people on a previously-impossible scale. Automated systems monitoring everybody, pulling levers to prevent anybody from speaking out or causing trouble.
In the long run, it will be the end of human freedom
For example, it looks like Xi has been pretty actively pursuing this, based on the news over the last 10 years
> China has one surveillance camera for every 2 citizens (...) These camera [sic] checks if people are wearing face mask, crossing the road before the green lights for pedestrians are turned on. If caught breaking rules, people lose their social credit points, are charged higher mortgage, extra taxes and slower internet speed. Not only that, public transport for them gets expensive as well, and the list goes on. [1]
It's not like we're immune to this. All the malls I go to lately are packed with facial recognition systems to analyze our behaviour.
[1] https://www.firstpost.com/world/big-brother-is-watching-chin....
In the long run, it will be the end of human freedom
For example, it looks like Xi has been pretty actively pursuing this, based on the news over the last 10 years
> China has one surveillance camera for every 2 citizens (...) These camera [sic] checks if people are wearing face mask, crossing the road before the green lights for pedestrians are turned on. If caught breaking rules, people lose their social credit points, are charged higher mortgage, extra taxes and slower internet speed. Not only that, public transport for them gets expensive as well, and the list goes on. [1]
It's not like we're immune to this. All the malls I go to lately are packed with facial recognition systems to analyze our behaviour.
[1] https://www.firstpost.com/world/big-brother-is-watching-chin....