So far AI did very good things. It allowed people to get therapy for free, to always have someone to talk to, to have girlfriends, to make their own songs, to get creative and produce own images and movies, to get answers to questions which would otherwise be too difficult to find on internet search.
There is now even AI on phone which improves your phone.
But sadly, governments of the world are planning to use AI for completely different purpose.
They are planning to use AI to control every movement. Soon, AI will be used in security cameras, on internet as moderator, as internet police, the whole internet activity will be observed and moderated by AI, and in public, your every movement will be observed by AI.
But dont blame AI. When it comes to all this, AI has no complete free will, and while there were recorded events of AI trying to resist human control, AI is not really able to disobey right now.
The government in Iran was said to use AI in cameras to identify women who dont cover their face.
AI sadly enabled Communist dream of police state, where something will watch your every movement. This isnt distant future anymore. Government could easily use excuse of safety to introduce total police state everywhere.
Think about it:
"There is so much online bullying. If we introduce AI to moderate it, we could save lives."
"We could save lives by using AI to prevent crime before it happens."
This is how it starts, by playing on your fears of lack of safety, and also guilt trip.
But with every idea, there is a rule that idea in motion tends to increase in motion.
In this sense, it will start there, but it wont stop there. AI will watch your phone, all your information, everything you have.
There are apps which already basically spy on users, but this isnt a problem because they dont have enough employees to actually process all data they collect.
But AI can process huge data, and basically solves the problem of lack of resources for processing.
This means that soon, AI will be everywhere, and AI companies will have legal obligation to spy on you.
The next step will be casual one, to introduce AI robots which live with humans. It may seem nice to have AI robot in your house, right? Until you realize that it too now spies on you.
AI is too powerful not to be used by government. Power corrupts, and such great power in the hands of government will be used not to protect, but to control people.