What Happens If Criminals & Terrorists Get To Use AI
Criminals could use artificial intelligence to commit "terrorist acts or murders". Jason Fry, a specialist at PAV i.t. services says internet fraudsters caused £1 billion of damages to companies across the UK last year but chillingly warned that bad guys will be after more than just money in 2017.
He believes more than ever there are very real possibilities of cyber crime being used to execute large-scale terrorist attacks, assassinations and even murders.
And the emerging market of driverless cars, which are also able to park themselves and be controlled remotely, along with medicines that can be self-administered by personal devices and the popularity of drones gives us an indication of the automation which can be expected in the future.
He said: "Cyber criminals with a more sinister agenda than breaching data in return for financial reward will be able to take advantage of technology in order to execute terrorist acts or murders.
"For example, by hacking medical devices to administer lethal dosages to victims."
As programmes like Humans and West World play out a fictional world of cyborgs turning on mankind, he took a look at the growing number of cyber threats both to businesses and individuals, and he thinks fiction is quickly becoming fact.
Advances in artificial intelligence have created a swathe of new opportunities for criminals which could be potentially world ending.
And ransomware, the increasingly common trend of holding a computer and its associated data hostage until the victim pays a large sum for its release, has been causing huge problems for businesses across the globe and according to Mr Fry, is a trend that is set to continue in 2017.
Mr Fry said: "There seems to be no sign of this trend diminishing in the near future and certainly where ransomware is concerned the fraudsters are consistently refining and updating its capabilities resulting in versions that are even self-propagating.
"Information can now be encrypted much quicker, which can also play into the hands of the hackers.
"Criminals using ransomware can swiftly encrypt large amounts of data, often before a company even realises it is under attack."
He said stealing confidential data also presents threats to businesses, and thinks this will only increase in 2017.
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