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posted by janrinok on Wednesday February 21 2018, @07:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the AI-labor-laws dept.

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

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @01:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @01:19AM (#641546)

    And we want THESE PEOPLE to make decisions for us about AI?
    You seem to be under the mistaken impression that you do understand all of the things you stated better than them. Are you *sure*?

    What if I told you net neutrality has nothing to do with it? It was basically the ISPs and the content providers deciding who gets to rip you off. For awhile it was the content providers winning. Now the ISPs are winning. It was originally about double charging me for data. Now it has a totally different meaning.

    Strong Encryption. Is this the same one that the last 3 presidents group of NSA wonks and FBI wonks say encryption is bad for us and the bad guys are going to win?

    It's a series of tubes. So internet memes are how you decide you know better than how politicians see a set of communication methods? Maybe they can clean them 'like with a cloth'.

    Global Warming. Is this the one where the acceptance criteria change depending how hot/cold it is outside? Is this also the one where they have made thousands of predictions and have been wrong? Maybe if they make another prediction they will get it right THIS TIME. It could even be true but they bloody hell make it look like they are trying to scam me.

    Campaign Contributions? Is this from the same group of people that spent several billion dollars to tell me what terrible people the other candidate is for a job that pays 200-400k a year?

    More guns are the solution to having too many guns. In this case yes. Our congress has abdicated its role. "To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress" Instead of showing people how to safely use guns and proper regulations. We get more scare mongering on how some random bit of metal is going to leap from someones hands and kill everyone. Maybe one more law will fix everything. No, no they will for sure get it right this time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEihkjKNhN8 [youtube.com] Remember you already think they are incompetent. But somehow magically they are competent here.

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