The Impact of AI on Society, Human Relationships, and Ethics

This unit delves into the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in modern life. It explores how AI reshapes sectors like healthcare, education, and finance, enhancing efficiency but also raising concerns about job displacement, social isolation, and ethical dilemmas (bias, privacy, accountability).

• Healthcare: Diagnosing diseases (cancer detection), predicting patient outcomes, robotic surgeries.
• Education: Personalized learning, automated assessments, adapting lessons to student pace.
• Finance: Fraud detection, automated trading, customer service chatbots.
• Entertainment: Recommendation algorithms (Netflix/YouTube), creating digital characters.

• Job Displacement: Automation of repetitive tasks affects jobs like cashiers and drivers. need for reskilling.
• Human Relationships: Reduced face-to-face interaction, reliance on chatbots (e.g., Replika) leading to social isolation and reduced empathy.
• Privacy: Surveillance and data misuse (facial recognition).
• Bias: AI systems inheriting human biases (e.g., gender bias in hiring tools).
• Accountability: Who is responsible when AI fails? (Developer vs User).

The unit focuses on changing tense in indirect speech (present to past, past to perfect) and handling questions, orders, and suggestions.

• Direct: Maria said, "I love reading books."
• Indirect: Maria said that she loved reading books.

Example story: The Friend in the Machine. A story about a boy named Ali who becomes overly dependent on an AI assistant named 'Nora', leading to isolation from real friends. The story highlights the danger of letting AI control human choices.