Frankenstein Or The Modern Prometheus By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Artificial Intelligence or AI (acronym) is a term used to describe an entity or collection of entities that have similar or greater level of intelligence as humans and has been made by humans consciously. As technology advances AI has become a topic for science fiction, scientific research and debate.

The concept of intelligence that has been made artificially and not by evolution has been around since the era of the ancient Greeks as in Greek mythology it is said that the god Hephaestus made bronze human shaped machines that he could verbally order to perform tasks.

The concept of AI has had a significant impact in fiction as: there was the novel Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in 1818 in which a scientist

Clarke in 1968 in which the AI character HAL 9000 denied an order from a human to protect itself which was probably one of the more culturally significant moments in western society of an AI defying a human and The Terminator in 1984 which was probably one of the most notable examples of AI fiction as the AI defence network “Skynet” becomes self-ware and causes the launch multiple nuclear warheads killing over 3 billion people and then attempts to commit genocide on the human race which was probably a factor in the creation of the belief that a sufficiently intelligent AI will take over the world and subjugate or wipe out the human

In the software for making the digital image from electrical signals there would not be any code or process to instruct the scanner to output death threats in place of the scanned image or attempt to harm any nearby people by causing the hardware to fail.

Even if the software or AI have no direct function it will still have some kind of rule, directive or purpose that it follows and provided that the directive is not kill all humans or there are directives in place to prevent harm coming to humans then genocide by an AI is not likely to occur as those that could create an artificial intelligence would be a human and a significant percentage of humans have an interest in staying alive due to a survival instinct present in the vast majority of lifeforms on the planet.

Rules put in place for most AIs would probably be less vague versions of something like Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics from Runaround (later republished in the book I, Robot in 1950) which