Terrorists and criminals could weaponize AI in five years, report states

Artificial intelligence (AI) is ripe for exploitation by criminal gangs and terrorists, a stark new report has claimed with experts calling for restrictions to be introduced immediately — before it is too late. Governments could already be plotting to make use of brand new tech, including drones adapted into missiles, fake videos and auto-hacking tools, […]

How to weaponize our tech addiction: A ‘stickiness gap’ law

GUEST: No one’s better than America at addicting people to empty pixels. We have the platforms, like Facebook, Netflix, iOS, free-to-play video games, and Reddit. We have the people, an elite army of incentivized coders, statisticians, psychologists, and marketers. And we have the machine learning algorithms to augment both. The result is a powerful weapon, […]