Innovation and Technology Management

( 3,000 words) -Guidance notes You are required to demonstrate knowledge and understanding from your individual research and wider reading. Your work must be presented in essay format style. As an academic piece of work you are expected to link theory and practice. You should take care to ensure that the work you submit has a high standard of presentation. You must acknowledge the sources of information and evidence using the Harvard referencing system. -Task As technology rapidly progresses, some proponents of artificial intelligence believe that the rapid advances that are taking place in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence help solve some of the complex social challenges and offer immortality via virtual humans. But AI’s critics are sounding the alarm going so far as to call its development an “existential threat” to mankind. Their argument extends to their fears that risks and threats posed by AI far outweigh perceived benefits and according to Stephen Hawking, the development of full Artificial Intelligence could spell end of human race. You are required to produce a research essay, drawing extensively on the literatures available, on benefits and threats of AI and machine learning.