READY OR NOT: AI Experts List the Real Dangers of Artificial Intelligence.
Digital:
Automated phishing, or creating fake emails, websites, and links to steal information.
Faster hacking, through the automated discovery of vulnerabilities in software.
Fooling AI systems, by taking advantage of the flaws in how AI sees the world.Physical:
Automating terrorism, by using commercial drones or autonomous vehicles as weapons.
Robot swarms, enabled by many autonomous robots trying to achieve the same goal.
Remote attacks, since autonomous robots wouldn’t need to be controlled within any set distance.Political:
Propaganda, through easily-generated fake images and video.
Automatic dissent removal, by automatically finding and removing text or images.
Personalized persuasion, taking advantage of publicly-available information to target someone’s opinions.
The fact that the T-800 isn’t listed might be taken as evidence that this report was generated by a hostile AI.