Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI

Re:Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI by Avamander on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:27PM (#16440596)

Nothing bad so far... For example there's a lot of homophobic people out in the world, right? Now let's assume this article, https://osf.io/zn79k/, is correct in it's conclusions and boom, you've got machines that could potentially discriminate based on the CCTV footage of the building you entered for a job interview. This is just the start, scientists are heavily looking for those genes that make people smart, more prone to diseases, creating an AI that based on your genes determines if you're fit for high school even is seriously dystopic.

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Re:Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI by Eridrus on Thursday February 22, 2018 @03:41PM (#16441182)

So far every single reply to my comment was about how things could go bad, without anything currently bad.

In the presence of all the tracking that people rail against, there are so few actual harms that everyone invents an issue.

I think this is telling.

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Re:Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI by Avamander on Thursday February 22, 2018 @04:40PM (#16441663)

I think this is telling that you don't understand what "risk" is. Do you allow random people into your home? They most likely have not done anything bad, until they do.

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