Crises by AI, and Crises on AI

Abstract

To discuss on the global risk concerning artificial intelligence (AI), start from investigating the current condition in which AI technology was already immersed both into our daily life and the governance of the whole society or democracy. Since the 3rd AI boom, the rapid technological development in the recent years, has been largely supported by the measure so-called “deep learning”, its character and influence toward making the whole AI systems into “black box” is examined, to describe the common images of AI-related risk and the crises brought from AI. Then the fact that such risk scenarios are not much accepted as realistic, though, because of the equivocality of AI and its current (and in the possible future’s) development. Also, the trend in which what we have been expected to AI, and to us the human beings in return, has largely transformed is described. Finally, the author points out that the technological development in itself shall be understood as our action based on the social / democratic choices, and thus have certain tendencies, to which we can possibly design social and legal, not technological, countermeasures.