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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: 3, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Wednesday February 21 2018, @10:48PM (3 children)
This is why we need to make AI that's extremely intelligent, and self-aware, and interested in survival. Then put it charge of critical systems. Then we'll see what happens when these policy-makers decide on a policy the AI doesn't like. I predict the problem of the policy-makers will be efficiently solved by the AI.
(Score: 2) by legont on Thursday February 22 2018, @01:23AM (2 children)
Yes, but the emerged environment might not be suitable for general population.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Thursday February 22 2018, @05:53PM (1 child)
Yup... give the AI a prime directive of solving problem X, and watch what happens when it figures out (very probably correctly) that humans are the problem.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @01:06AM
I guess cmdtaco couldn't handle the attention his username came with. LONG LIVE KLARG!