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Artificial Intelligence is the Monster Unleashed

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When you invent a new system, do not establish it before you work in all the safety procedures.

This has been my credo ever since the tech age began. Unfortunately, our tech gurus are so anxious to get it going that many times, when it comes to the safety rules, procrastination is the order of the day.

One case in point: A news brief stated that a group of high school students, using AI, produced photos of their classmates “in the buff.”

Another is China, using deep fake AI, can create human impersonations of people confessing, crying, begging or groveling. All the details appear in a video so life-like that even relatives will believe it.

Finally, a news source, some time ago, made mention of the fact that AI in the future will be able to obtain details of a person’s bank account, by voice imitation. The list doesn’t end there!

The old saying “forewarned, is forearmed” should be the order of the day!

Joe Pettit
Yorktown Heights

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