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Research & Initiatives The Development of Artificial

Center (RIC): Intelligence is Dangerous for
the Mankind

The Research and Initiatives Center is the administrative The Research and Initiatives Center is pleased to share
research structure at Prince Sultan University that Prince Sultan University's research achievements for
provides faculty members with different research the fourth quarter of 2022. By: Asma Vaheer Khan, College of Computer & Information Sciences
services. It was established in September 2017, and
since then RIC has developed the research policies Comparing with data from Q3:
and bylaws at the university. ● Scopus publications increased by 30% Respected dignitaries and my dear friends! A very warm good morning to everyone!
● COVID-19 publications increased by 2% I am Asma Khan, here to convince you how dangerous the development of
1. PSU's research achievements for the fourth ● The number of active researchers increased by 17%. Artificial Intelligence is to our mankind. Let’s not confuse development of ARTICIAL
quarter of 2022 INTELLIGENCE with the development of TECHNOLOGY. Can someone tell me what
they think defines artificial intelligence? Artificial intelligence (AI) is defined as the
simulation of human intellectual intelligence by machines. Hmmm.. let’s all take a
moment to let that sink in. The human INTELLECT, WISDOM, COMPREHENSION;
being mimicked or simulated by A MACHINE! Meaning, the possibility of human as
a whole being replaced by machines that are human-like. By the end of my speech,
every one present here is going to become frightfully aware of the extents of danger
the development of AI can reach. The development of artificial intelligence (AI)
can alarmingly manipulate reality, exploit genetics, and automate the future of the
youth; making it dangerous for the mankind.
Let me begin with my first argument. Would any of you like to be seen in situations
or videos or pictures you have NEVER been in? Absolutely not! This is what the
dangerous AI is capable of achieving. Published by Matt Growcoot in PetaPixel, a
photographer was able to create SUCH REALISTIC portraits of people who do not
exit, that if I showed you one of those pictures, TRUST ME, you would believe it’s
a real person. Being able to create such intense deepfakes of people who don’t
even exist, gives me chills to think about how AI can be used to make ‘real’ fakes
of me doing something I did not do. Surveillance footages and crime evidences can
so easily be manipulated by using AI. Not only might a criminal getaway with their
crimes, but an innocent person who has been AI’ed into ‘evidences’ may get into
trouble.
Moving on, let’s talk about AI in the field of genetics. I will quote this and I want all
of you to ponder over it for just 10 seconds; “AI-designed protein awakens silenced
genes, one by one”. Yes, I will repeat it; the AI developed in the field of genetic
engineering is able to provoke genes in people that were originally recessive. This was
a research article published by the UW Medicine. It talked about how AI technology
was developed into controlling gene activity. DO WE REALLY WANT to have people
among us who are NOT themselves, but are someone whose genes were actually
manipulated and edited in a laboratory? Messing with the very creation of human
being, manipulating the characteristics of who a person should really be, is what is
being “achieved” by the vicious AI today. Scared yet?
Last, but the most agonizing one for us ambitious university students; the
automation of jobs. Today we don’t argue about AI becoming the displacement of
job industry, instead we advocate how FAR the extents of AI will reach in the work
environment. Today some of the janitors may lose their jobs to vacuums, tomorrow
the entire cleaning staff will get replaced by automated cleaning machines that can
polish your floors to squeak. Apply this example to all your dreams and ambitions
and fathom how AI can replace you in the flick of the moment. Today, the audio
recorder types out your business proposal document for you, tomorrow, AI will
have its own business generation no longer needing your human service. Today, a
vending machine makes coffee for you, tomorrow, the entire restaurant sector out
ALLAB Holds the Award Ceremony for of business because the AI can make better calorized meals. All these examples just
the Fourth Written Speech Competition prove how dangerous AI can become and completely replace you.
Having “real” deepfakes of us, having altered genes in our personals and a world that
no longer requires the services or intelligence of humans are all reasons more than
The Applied Linguistics Research encouraged all participants to seize College of Computer & enough to strongly imply the dangers of developing AI. I will conclude by speech
Lab (ALLB) at the College of all opportunities to enhance their Information Sciences leaving you all with question to think about every time AI comes across your mind
Humanities and Sciences held the writing skills in order to improve as “safe”; quoted by AI experts themselves in Vox, that the AI development carries
award ceremony for the fourth their chances of employability. This Third Position: a huger risk to humanity THAN CLIMATE CHANGE, should make all of us sceptical
written speech competition on welcoming word was followed by Shaimaa Hossam, about it right? Right.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022. the announcement of the winners College of Computer & Thank you all!
A welcoming word was delivered who read their speeches out to the Information Sciences
by Dr. Alia Mitchell, Vice-Dean of audience. We publish here the first References
the College of Humanities and winning speech: Fourth Position: Gray, L. (2022, March 1). AI-designed protein awakens silenced genes, one by one.
Sciences. Dr. Mitchell highlighted Lama AlTayeb, Retrieved from Newsroom: https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/ai-designed-protein-
the importance of extra-curricular First Position: College of Business Administration awakens-silenced-genes-one-one
activities in the development Asma Vaheed Khan, Growcoot, M. (2022, July 1). AI Used to Create Shockingly Realistic Portraits of People
of students’ characters and College of Computer & Fifth Position: Who Don’t Exist. Retrieved from Petapixel: https://petapixel.com/202201/07//ai-
clarified the importance of Information Sciences Aayah Nuruddin, used-to-create-shockingly-realistic-portraits-of-people-who-dont-exist/
mastering writing skills for a better College of Architecture and Design Piper, K. (2020, October 15). The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity.
career path. Dr. Mitchell also Second Position: Aasiyah Porter, Retrieved from Vox: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/201818126576/21/12//ai-
congratulated the winners and Ramy Ibrahim, College of Business Administration artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-safety-alignment