Technology is amongst the most magnificent yet terrifying creations our world has ever encountered. Never before has our society been so advanced yet so vulnerable to our evolution. As technology grows, so do we grow around it and adapt to its new forms and capabilities. It allows us to understand complexities that seemed insurmountable and to perform tasks that range from mundane to monumental. Yet while this great power continues to thrive and expand in our environment, what we once were as a nation seems to be crumbling beneath technology’s colossal-sized foot.

There is a type of technology known as artificial intelligence. AI is synonymous to the mimicry of human intelligence by machine or software. Humans program computers and systems with the knowledge we have sustained to think and act the same way we have learned to. While this is one of the more impressive feats of technological amelioration, it brings about an underlying evil that seeks not to cooperate with our kind, but to overcome it.

Transferring human intelligence into the minds of a robot that is programmed to perform certain abilities has the potential to prove fatal. Think back to when we were young and the idea of a society controlled by robots was only a reality in comic books. Now imagine that that world is one the people of your civilization created. If you think about it, the people who are programming these machines are technically inserting their minds into them. This essentially means that these computers are then capable of programming themselves, and of using this technician’s mind to control their own actions. Consequentially, engraining human actions and thoughts into the mind of a robot could result in the disappearance of jobs, from lowly to superior.

Many people believe that because humans are manually constructing these machines and technologies that there will be no consequences we will be unable to control. Yes, technology has helped us become the astronomical superpower that we consider ourselves to be, but there is no definitive way of concluding that this means a positive influx of progress in the future. Suffice it to say; only time will tell.