A.I.'S -NUCLEAR BAZOOKA- AIR : GLOBAL PRECIS

A.I. is a unique story. It is not born in secure government laboratories, owned by a handful of states and regulated through summit meetings.

It is being created by private companies scattered across the globe - companies that answer not to defense ministries but to shareholders, customers and sometimes open-source communities.

Through them anyone can gain access.

Imagine a world where everyone possesses a nuclear bazooka - one that grows more accurate, more autonomous and more capable of firing itself with every update.

There is no doctrine of '' mutually assured destruction '' here - only the accelerating democratization of unprecedented power.

A.I. can super-empower good. For instance, an illiterate Indian farmer with a smartphone connected to an A.I. app can learn exactly when to plant seeds, which seeds to plant, how much water to use, which fertilizer to apply and when to harvest for the best price - all delivered by voice in his own dialect and based on data collected from farmers worldwide.

THAT truly is transformative.

But the very same engine, especially when available through open-source models, could be used by a malicious entity to poison every seed in that same region or engineer a virus into every chaff of wheat.

The World Students Society thanks Thomas L. Friedman