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A report written by academics from institutions including the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge Center for a New American Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and OpenAI warns that AI systems could be misused:
AI ripe for exploitation, experts warn
Drones turned into missiles, fake videos manipulating public opinion and automated hacking are just three of the threats from artificial intelligence in the wrong hands, experts have said.
The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence report warns that AI is ripe for exploitation by rogue states, criminals and terrorists. Those designing AI systems need to do more to mitigate possible misuses of their technology, the authors said. And governments must consider new laws.
The report calls for:
- Policy-makers and technical researchers to work together to understand and prepare for the malicious use of AI
- A realisation that, while AI has many positive applications, it is a dual-use technology and AI researchers and engineers should be mindful of and proactive about the potential for its misuse
- Best practices that can and should be learned from disciplines with a longer history of handling dual use risks, such as computer security
- An active expansion of the range of stakeholders engaging with, preventing and mitigating the risks of malicious use of AI
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2018, @07:48PM (5 children)
Online, everyone is an expert in AI. At least with nukes, they were just "they go bang".
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday February 21 2018, @08:01PM
Only joke i seem to be able to reliably remember:
Native American goes to his doctor and says, "When with squaw, left nut goes 'uh', right nut goes 'uh', condom goes BANG!
tl;dr is:
Doctor gives him several different types of condom all with same results until finally he gives him a concrete condom and tells him to try it.
Next day he comes back to the doctor and says: Left nut goes 'uh', condom goes 'uh', right nut goes BANG!.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 21 2018, @09:37PM
With nukes, it is only a matter of time, until we use them on a large scale. Maybe not in last several decades. Maybe not in the next few decades. But as resources get more scarce the probability converges to 1.0.
I don't miss nukes. I do Miss Snooks.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday February 22 2018, @03:07AM (2 children)
Let us keep in mind that one doesn't need to pass a nuke building test in order to post on the internet. But one does need to pass a modest intelligence test. And in addition, almost all of us are experts in tasks that require some degree of intelligence. We might not rise fully to your definition of intelligence, but as far as esoteric subjects go, humans have a large amount of experience with aspects of AI that they never will with nuclear weapons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @12:38AM (1 child)
^ the closest khallow will ever get to humility
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday February 23 2018, @05:58AM
As long as you recognize that you can be wrong and that the universe doesn't revolve around you, then you are as close to humility as you will ever need to be.