Artificial Intelligence or Virtual Reality?

For my final project in my class Living and Working in the Virtual World, I have chosen to choose between virtual reality and artificial intelligence.  To begin, what is artificial intelligence and virtual reality?  In my idea, artificial intelligence is the idea of robotics having their own mind, their, own intelligence, and can think on their own and choose their own actions.  For me, virtual reality is a reality you can find digitally, a digital device that actually makes your mind believe you are in a completely different location, and situation at a certain time, when in reality you are right there in your living room!  For this final project I am going to choose artificial intelligence, and I want to discuss some pros and cons of artificial intelligence.  If we were able to create artificial intelligence, I feel like our lives could become so much easier, or so much harder.  For starters, if we had artificial intelligence could you imagine the possibilities? We could now have an “Alexa” that could decide to buy us groceries online that were healthy for us while not breaking the check book, pay bills, help schedule doctor appointments, help kids with homework, then the possibilities with government would be endless… However, there are the dangers of artificial intelligence.  For example, if this robot has its own mind, and has the possibility to choose its own actions, isn’t there the possibility that it could choose to do harm against us, and technically we couldn’t own it because it is a being?  Those are the reasons I am choosing to do my final project on artificial intelligence, because you can discuss and debate it on so many issues.