Though I tend toward the positive side of advancing AI, my dark side is thinking, "
Whhhhhoa ..." We don't know what we don't know.
The havoc wreaked by certain levels of insidious hackery are near unimaginable and inconceivable. It's like we need to advance secure 'good' AI to protect us from the evolution of really nasty 'bad' AI. The potential damage is boundless.
On the road these days I'd trust an autonomous vehicle more than most drivers. It is not difficult to envision automobile hackery -- even that of tens of thousands in a single 'global incident.' The problems I have are with the truly disgusting demented sicko's we can't imagine, with their monumental, societal long-term douchery.
Example: CSAIL researchers
are making wonderful advances using AI in the diagnosis if early cancers. Combined with enhanced imagery techniques these advances are of incredible benefit to us all ...
but if the AI is vulnerable and not highly secure, some sick, aggrieved whack-job could 'worm' their way in --- using nasty AI to spoof medicos into thinking third-stage malignancies are benign fatty tissues. Literally, years down the road you have thousands dying from cancer-ridden bodies.
It just seems to me that
secure must be conjoined with AI as a global priority (s-AI ?) --- or we are preordained to 'Hacker with Mental Illness Crashes Subway Trains In Catastrophic Disaster' headlines.
The industry must learn to police themselves and highly secure their AI, because our fearless politicos are simply too dumb or indifferent (or bought off...).