TY - CHAP
T1 - Between Scylla and Charybdis
T2 - The Threat of Democratized Artificial Intelligence
AU - Swed, Ori
AU - Chávez, Kerry
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - As artificial intelligence (AI) advances, speculations on its implications run parallel, sometimes rampant. On one side, alarmists foresee a technological singularity as AI outstrips human intelligence. On the other, scholars and analysts tend to trail behind the staggering speed of development. Called cultural lag, the deliberate pace of theoretical reflection is out of sync. Steering between the Scylla of doomsday scripts and the Charybdis of cultural lag, we identify and discuss the threat of violent nonstate actors exploiting advanced and democratized AI technologies to commit attacks. We analyze three confirming case studies followed by three potential threats becoming available as AI evolves: self-driving cars, Internet bots, and 3D printing. Our chapter contributes a shrewd approach to threat analysis in the dynamic world of AI development.
AB - As artificial intelligence (AI) advances, speculations on its implications run parallel, sometimes rampant. On one side, alarmists foresee a technological singularity as AI outstrips human intelligence. On the other, scholars and analysts tend to trail behind the staggering speed of development. Called cultural lag, the deliberate pace of theoretical reflection is out of sync. Steering between the Scylla of doomsday scripts and the Charybdis of cultural lag, we identify and discuss the threat of violent nonstate actors exploiting advanced and democratized AI technologies to commit attacks. We analyze three confirming case studies followed by three potential threats becoming available as AI evolves: self-driving cars, Internet bots, and 3D printing. Our chapter contributes a shrewd approach to threat analysis in the dynamic world of AI development.
KW - Artificial intelligence
KW - International security
KW - Terrorism
KW - Threat analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85109495389&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-74420-5_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-74420-5_8
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85109495389
T3 - International Political Economy Series
SP - 177
EP - 194
BT - International Political Economy Series
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -