The Potential for Malicious Uses of AI Systems

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The ability to create video and photographs that will be indistinguishable from other actual news footage is going to be hard to resist for folks, both the creators and the viewers. The potential for malicious uses of AI systems is the thing that Hofstadter should be terrified about,. not that AI systems are going to take away our humanity.

Computer Scientist and author Melanie Mitchell of Portland State University and the Santa Fe Institute talks about her book Artificial Intelligence with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Mitchell explains where we are today in the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and where we might be going. Despite the hype and excitement surrounding AI, Mitchell argues that much of what is called "learning" and "intelligence" when done by machines is not analogous to human capabilities. The capabilities of machines are highly limited to explicit, narrow tasks with little transfer to similar but different challenges. Along the way, Mitchell explains some of the techniques used in AI and how progress has been made in many areas.