AI is coming for you, warns ominous new study
AI is coming for you, warns ominous new study
February 21, 2018
If you weren’t already worried about AI, the ominously
named “The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence” report has just been
released to fuel your nightmares.
Written by 26 authors from 14 academic and industrial
institutions and think tanks including nonprofit research OpenAI, the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the national security think tank Center for
a New American Security, the report acknowledges the many positive applications
for AI, but argues it is also ripe for exploitation by rogue states, as well as
criminals and terrorists, and that it makes war inevitable. So we need to
prepare.
The 100-page report examines three areas–digital,
physical, and political–where bad actors could exploit AI, some of which sound
quite familiar: bots automating “fake” lifelike videos for political ends.
Other Black Mirror-esque scenarios include the possibility of criminals
outfitting drones with facial recognition software to target individuals.
Luckily, within the frightening scenarios they lay out,
the authors make a few suggestions to stop the long slow slide into a dark
world where terrorists turn AI against humans. The authors want governments,
individuals, scientists, and researchers to work together to prepare for and
mitigate the seemingly inevitable malicious use of AI, because if there’s
anything we can learn from sci-fi, it’s that only when humans band together can
we defeat the robots. Anyway, read up here https://maliciousaireport.com to
prepare for a future that could be scarier than anything Skynet dreamed up.
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