A British terrorism watchdog warned that artificial intelligence poses a “threat” to national security, and urged developers of this new technology to abandon their “technical illusions” perceptions, amid fears that it could be exploited to target vulnerable people.
The independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation in Britain, Jonathan Hall KC, said that the threat posed by artificial intelligence to national security has become clearer than ever before, and that this technology should be designed taking “the intentions of terrorists” into account, according to what the Guardian newspaper reported. British.
The official, whose role is to conduct a review of the adequacy of anti-terrorism legislation, added that much of the development of artificial intelligence focuses on the potential positives of the technology, while neglecting to consider how “terrorists can exploit it to carry out attacks.”
He continued: “They (developers) need to be in the same room with some terrifying 15-year-old neo-Nazis, and evaluate what they can do. You have to prepare defense systems to counter what you know people intend to do with them later.”
Hall expressed his deep concern about “the possibility of artificial intelligence chatbots convincing vulnerable or psychologically disturbed individuals to launch terrorist attacks.”
Security concerns
Likewise, security services are deeply concerned about the ability of artificial intelligence “chatbots” to seduce children, who already constitute a growing segment of terrorism cases at Britain’s internal security service, MI5.
In light of increasing calls to legalize the technology after warnings last week by artificial intelligence pioneers that it may threaten the survival of the human race, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to raise this issue when he travels to the United States, on Wednesday, to meet with US President Joe Biden. And senior figures in Congress.
Back in the UK, efforts to tackle the national security challenges posed by artificial intelligence are intensifying, with partnership between MI5 and the Alan Turing Institute, the national body for data science and artificial intelligence, leading the effort.
