Artificial intelligence today has become one of the tools to innovate technology and help in daily activities. This technology can help machines to think, learn, and make decisions like a human. With the widespread use of artificial intelligence from various sectors such as health, education, business, and transportation due to various conveniences and efficiencies, but behind all the advantages, this technology also carries a risk that makes concerns for the future of humanity.
Therefore, it is important for us to know and understand in depth the good and bad impacts that result from the use of AI in the field of life. There are two positive and two negative impacts of the development of artificial intelligence.
One of the most prominent positive impacts of using artificial intelligence is the increased efficiency of various fields in the work sector. Through automation programs, AI is able to help complete all routine tasks quickly and accurately, such as processing data quickly, serving customers well, and supervising all production lines properly. This not only reduces human workload but also increases productivity and saves operational costs and time. For example, in the field of education, artificial intelligence can help a teacher in finding efficient learning materials and interesting learning methods that help an educator in explaining materials that are interesting to students.
Another example is in the field of health, artificial intelligence can help doctors diagnose diseases with precise medical data. In addition, artificial intelligence is also used in logistics to speed up the distribution process and stock monitoring. With the help of artificial intelligence, a company can minimize human error and maximize production costs. Therefore, artificial intelligence can be an important tool to improve human work performance and efficiency.
The second positive impact of using artificial intelligence is to help progress in the field of education. As explained in the first point, artificial intelligence is also able to bring a significant change in advancing education by providing learning programs that are more personalized and suitable for students to follow. These days, there are many AI-based platforms that can help students learn at their own style and pace, such as through digital tutorials and language apps. Teachers can also leverage AI to help analyze student progress and provide targeted feedback to help students improve.
This technology can also help with distance learning and open up access to education for those living in remote areas in search of learning materials that have not been available. Artificial intelligence can also recommend effective learning materials based on individual evaluation results so that the learning process becomes more efficient. Therefore, artificial intelligence is driving a change in education towards a more flexible and student-centered system where students can learn from a variety of sources.
With the good impact of the use of artificial intelligence, of course there are also adverse effects of the use of artificial intelligence, one of the most prominent adverse effects is the reduction of employment, Behind the efficiency of the use of artificial intelligence can also potentially replace the role of humans in various types of work fields. With the automation program causing some to become no longer relevant, especially in routine work.
The large use of artificial intelligence in companies that only rely on robots and smart systems to save operational costs has resulted in a number of workers experiencing termination of employment with the company because their positions can be replaced by machines. this certainly causes a lot of concern about the increasing number of unemployed in the future, especially for developing countries. If not balanced with retraining, people will continue to be left behind by future technological developments. Therefore, artificial intelligence can cause great risks such as economic differences and social crises if not managed wisely and properly.
The second adverse impact of using artificial intelligence is experiencing technological dependence. As explained above, the result of this dependence is the decline in employment. Artificial intelligence is increasingly sophisticated and dominates in human life which can cause excessive technological dependence. This is marked when every activity that should be done by human hands is instead done with the help of smart systems that make human thinking abilities and social skills can decline.
For example, in a student, students who rely too much on artificial intelligence in completing tasks without understanding the concept in depth which is done continuously. This can weaken human creativity and independence in making decisions. The existence of technology should be a tool rather than a total replacement in learning and working activities.
Uncontrollable dependence can erase human values and individual or group responsibility. Therefore, it is important for us to balance the use of artificial intelligence in strengthening human capacity itself in life. by considering artificial intelligence as a tool not as a total substitute in solving all problems so that we can make a decision.
Artificial intelligence is an innovative technology that can bring many benefits to everyday life, but it can also pose serious challenges to human life. The positive impact of artificial intelligence can be seen from the increasing efficiency of work in various sectors and advancing the quality of education for the better. However, we also need to pay attention to the negative impacts and should not be ignored, such as reduced employment due to being replaced by machines and the dependence of the community on the ease of technology that makes people’s creativity and independence weaken until they cannot make their own decisions.
This is where the role of the government, industry players, and society is very important to work together in designing a prevention plan for the use of artificial intelligence for education and teaching people about the ethics of wise use of artificial intelligence. Through this kind of balanced approach, we can certainly maximize the potential of artificial intelligence well without sacrificing human values. Artificial intelligence should be a tool that can support human roles, not replace them. Therefore, the future of artificial intelligence today largely depends on how we can manage it today for the sake of progress and common welfare in the future. []
Writer: Adi Ayansyah; Students of Al-Ihya Islamic University, Kuningan
