From The Daily Telegraph of the UK
If you want to know more about the apocalyptic future Europol is warning us about - slight journalistic exaggeration, here - you can have a look at the report, which I found online.
On the one hand, we are headed for a total-surveillance society, and it is well under way in England already, with the police making increasingly widespread use of facial recognition, drones and AI. On the other, law-enforcement agencies, the intelligence services and the military are clearly worried that the criminals, bad actors and terrorists will also be able to access such technologies - and they already are - in order to cause disruption and far worse.
The full repercussions of the deployment of AI across the board are difficult to assess. A direct consequence of AI-based automation may well be much higher unemployment, at the very least in the short term, and this could easily lead to discontent, strikes and rioting, if entire industries are affected.
What is new, in my opinion, is that, with AI, which is an advanced form of computerization, sectors that had been spared will now be affected severely - and that is all the jobs one used to refer to as 'white-collar jobs'. Clerical and even senior positions in, for instance, insurance, may be affected (cf. assessment of risk, something AI can do very well), but also industries such as graphic design (it is happening already), translation, editing (and even writing 'new' content), special effects in videos and films (and even writing scripts and acting, if actors are replaced by avatars), not to mention call centres (for simpler tasks) and the like.
Robots could groom children and trigger war with humans
Robots programmed to groom children, and mobs rioting in the streets against the automatons that have taken their jobs. This science-fiction-style dystopia is what may await Europe in 2035, according to researchers from the EU’s police agency. In an extraordinary 48-page report about the impact of robots and drones on law enforcement, published this week, Europol has outlined a series of “plausible future scenarios” that could have been lifted from the pages of an Isaac Asimov novel.
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