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: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday February 21 2018, @07:58PM (11 children)
That way only the state could use it
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2018, @08:59PM (1 child)
State v. criminals and terrorists is a distinction without a difference.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @10:32AM
As stated by Robert Anton Wilson, the differences between terrorists and governments are quite clear.
- Governments produce their own currency, terrorists do not.
- Terrorist kill between zero and (at maximum) a few thousand, governments kill by the millions.
- Governments claim a moral monopoly on the use of force, terrorists do not.
- Terrorists are motivated by idealism, governments are motivated by the desire for money and power.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 21 2018, @09:39PM (8 children)
Off topic: in Star Wars, who were the good guys and bad guys again?
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 21 2018, @09:45PM (2 children)
You mean... in a galaxy far, far away?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 21 2018, @10:16PM (1 child)
An obvious reply opportunity would be that both the good and bad guys both had AI tech and it didn't seem to make any difference in their efforts.
In R2D2 for instance, their AI could easily understand human speech, but was unable to do even rudimentary text to speech.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2018, @11:02PM
Unable? Or unwilling?
If the meatbags can't learn to whistle...
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday February 21 2018, @09:51PM (3 children)
The good guys used the Light Side of the Force and the Bad Guys used the Dark Side of the Force. Because George Lucas said so.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday February 21 2018, @10:42PM
They both have a light side and a dark side, and they hold the Universe together.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @12:10AM (1 child)
I always separate the whites from the darks. It lets me use bleach on the whites and stops the darks from bleeding dye on the whites.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @12:52AM
I think we have a winner for the new KKK slogan competition.
(Score: 2) by legont on Thursday February 22 2018, @01:14AM
This reminds me... did Captain Kirk have a mortgage? Was it under water by any chance? How about college debt?
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.