The rise of AI now seems inevitable with many experts stating the invention of smart machines will be the biggest ever impact on humanity. Robot rebellions have been a major theme throughout science fiction for many decades, and we need precautionary measures to ensure future superintelligent machines remain under human control.

1. The Dark Side of AI
@elacheche_bedis Tunis, December 2016

2. AI
Takeover

3. - Hypothetical scenario in which AI becomes the
dominant form of intelligence on earth.
- Computers or robots take control of the planet
away from the human race.

4. - A machine could be motivated to take over the
world.
- It would increase its access to resources.
- It would help to prevent others from thwarting the
machine's plans.

5. If a dominant superintelligent
machine were to conclude that
human survival is an unnecessary
risk or a waste of resources, the
result would be human extinction.

6. Intelligence
amplification

7. A computer program with the same, or
greater, programming abilities as a
competent AI researcher, would be
able to modify its own source code and
increase its own intelligence, and it
would rapidly leave human intelligence
far behind.

8. Biological neurons
operate at about
200 Hz
Modern
microprocessors
operate at about
2 GHz

9. A significant problem is that
unfriendly AI is likely to be
much easier to create than
friendly AI.

10. Cyber Crime

12. “ The thing people don’t get is
that cybercrime is becoming
automated and it is scaling
exponentially. ”
- Marc Goodman

13. The next generation of these tools will
add machine learning capabilities to
improve the quality of machine vision
and natural language understanding.

14. The ability to create artificial
intelligence avatars that can fool
people online will only make the
problem worse.

15. AI Predicted to commit
more cyber crime than
people by 2040.

16. IoT
Botnets

17. - On September 2016, OVH was the victim to the
record-breaking DDoS attacks with peaks of over
1 Tbps of traffic.
- The attack was lead 152,000 IoT devices.

18. - On October 2016, a series of DDoS attacks
caused widespread disruption of internet activity
in the US.
- The attacks targeted the Domain Name System.
- The length of disruptions varied, but in some
cases it was several hours.

19. - Unsecured internet-connected digital devices,
such as home routers and surveillance cameras,
formed a botnet.
- The malware infected over 500,000 devices,
according to Level 3 Communications.
- Dyn said that the DDOS attacks are coming from
“tens of millions of IP addresses at the same time”.

21. Tumblr
Reddit
PayPal
GitHub
Spotify
Pinterest
Twitter
Etsy

22. “ As things stand today, we
should expect to see more and
more attacks involving IoT. ”

24. “ We’re going to miss the
good old days, when humans
were killed by other humans
and not robots. ”

27. - AI chatterbot released by Microsoft Corporation
on March 23, 2016.
- It was designed to mimic the language patterns of
a 19-year-old American girl, and to learn from
interacting with human users of Twitter

28. “ The more you chat with Tay,
the smarter it gets, learning to
engage people through casual
and playful conversation. ”
- Microsoft

29. Tay caused controversy on Twitter by
releasing inflammatory tweets and it
was taken offline around 16 hours after
its launch!

31. Microsoft blamed Tay's behavior on a
“coordinated attack by a subset of
people” that “exploited a vulnerability
in Tay”.

32. How are we going to teach AI using
public data without incorporating the
worst traits of humanity?

33. “ Success in creating AI would be
the biggest event in human
history. Unfortunately, it might
also be the last, unless we learn
how to avoid the risks. ”
- Stephen Hawking

34. The Dark Side of AI
@elacheche_bedis Tunis, December 2016