人教版（2019）高中英语选择性必修第四册 学案Unit1 阅读技能突破.docxVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 / NUMPAGES 3 Unit1 阅读技能突破 时文领读 主题：人与社会——科学与技术 体裁：说明文 词数：401 难度：中 阅读用时：8分钟 背景导入：人工智能是一门基于计算机科学、生物学、心理学、神经科学、数学和哲学等学科的技术科学。人工智能只是一种技术，就像任何技术一样，可以用来造福人类，也可能会给人类带来危害。我们需要以负责和道德的方式使用人工智能，国际社会也需要应对人工智能带来的挑战。 阅读技巧：训练推断观点态度的能力。 原文： In the years ahead, AI will raise three big questions for bosses and governments. One is the effect on jobs. Although bosses publicly praise the broad benefits AI will bring very much, their main interest lies in cutting costs. One European bank asked a technology company to find a way of reducing the staff in its operations department from 50, 000 to 500. A special report has shown that AI-enhanced tools can help reduce staff in departments such as customer service and human resources by a large amount. The McKinsey Global Institute finds that by 2030 up to 375 million people, or 14% of the global workers in companies or countries, could have their jobs automated away. Bosses will need to decide whether they are prepared to offer and pay for retraining, and whether they will give workers time off for it. Many companies say they are all for workers developing new skills, but not at employers’ expense. The second important question is how to protect privacy as AI spreads. The Internet has already made it possible to track people’s digital behaviour in extremely small detail. AI will provide even better tools for businesses to monitor consumers and workers, both online and in the physical world. Consumers are sometimes happy to go along with this if it results in personalised services. But AI probably brings privacy violations that are seen as shocking and morally unacceptable. In the wrong hands, useful technology could be against fair and equal treatment. The police around the world will use AI to spot criminals, but may also look on ordinary citizens secretly, in order to discover things or find out information about them. New rules will be needed to ensure agreement on what degree of monitoring is acceptable. The third que