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Third, with the creation of artificial intelligence, it can either have a positive or a negative effect on humans. Many people fear that in developing AI, we may be sowing the seeds of our own destruction, our own physical, political, economical, and moral destruction. Political destruction could result from the exploitation of AI. If AI research continues to develop programs with the increase capacity for understanding text, understanding speech, interpreting images, and updating memory, the amount of information about individuals that was potentially available to government would be enormous. Which then causes the issue of Big Brother, and that the government will have more control of us. I feel that the biggest impact of the development of artificial intelligence is the destruction of our morals. Could we become less human-indeed, less than human-as a result of advances in AI? This might happen if people were to come to believe that purpose, choice, hope, and responsibility are all sentimental illusions. What is the purpose of artificial intelligence? To make our lives easier, which will cause us to be more dependent on them to carry out day-to-day tasks that we will normally will do. I feel that we continue to build and continue to advance the capabilities of artificial intelligence, our capabilities as humans will start to decrease and with that our brain power and storage will soon start to diminish and instead of moving up in evolution we will be sliding back down. Now, I am not saying that this will happen in the next 100 years it might not ever happen, well I hope not. But I fear that researchers in the future will notice that our abilities as humans have slightly decreased. With the increased development of artificial intelligence, it is feared that they will soon start acting on their own, free from our control, and maybe this ideology is influenced by our exposure to Terminator but still, anything is possible and that is highly possible. 

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