Ask HN: What if someone builds and uses advanced AI systems unethically?

Re:Ask HN: What if someone builds and uses advanced AI syste... by byoung2 on Saturday February 10, 2018 @09:32PM (#16350850)

I think we're within 20 years of computers being able to hold a freeform conversation in text or speech to do what I described. To chat someone up on Facebook or the equivalent, talk on the phone and convincingly imitate a real person. For reference, Dr. Sbaitso was created in 1991[1], and look how far we've come since then with Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, Bixby.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Sbaitso

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Re:Ask HN: What if someone builds and uses advanced AI syste... by eesmith on Sunday February 11, 2018 @10:07AM (#16352937)

Hmm, what you wrote was "socially engineer passwords and banking info from victims online".

According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test :

> In the 21st century, versions of these programs (now known as "chatterbots") continue to fool people. "CyberLover", a malware program, preys on Internet users by convincing them to "reveal information about their identities or to lead them to visit a web site that will deliver malicious content to their computers".[33] The program has emerged as a "Valentine-risk" flirting with people "seeking relationships online in order to collect their personal data".[34]

It may be that a computer with the ability to hold a freeform conversation/"advanced AI" is not necessary to do the social engineering you mentioned earlier.

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