What are the advantages and disadvantages of AI? Why would a business want to use AI?

Advantages: may increase the performance of some people because they want to compete better with computers, permanent preservation of knowledge, easy/fast/inexpensive supplication and dissemination of knowledge in a computer, consistent and thorough total cost of knowledge, fairly easy/inexpensive documentability of process and knowledge Disadvantages: privacy, security, loss of jobs, low/uninspired creativity, limited use of sensory experiences, not always great at recognizing patterns and relationships, reasoning only in narrow/focused/stable domains Business - replace simple human tasks with a cheap computer