From KK re my comments about cybersecurity and AI in the Jan. 2 “Predictions” issue:
“Thanks for bringing up cybersecurity in the blog. I’ve made it my top political issue, moving it ahead of the debt and the environment. The steady stream of reports of data breaches, leaks, ransomware attacks, digital extortion cases, and state-sponsored attacks have led to ‘breach fatigue.’ Today, more than ever, we need to be vigilant!
“And just for the record, AI – or as I call it, machine intelligence – is not humanity’s friend, it’s our competitor!”
My Response: Well put!
An increasingly large percentage of the posts I see these days are deep fakes… even those supposedly coming from national figures. Right now, it’s pretty easy to detect them. It will be more difficult in the future.
Another increasingly large percentage of the posts I see are made by actual humans reading from AI scripts. These, too, are easy to detect – at least for me as a writer who has dabbled with AI.
It’s hard to say what will become of all this in 10 or 15 years. In the meantime, there is going to be a surge of digital deception, disinformation, and outright fraud and scamming going on that will victimize millions of people.
