The Real AI Threats: Automated Hacking And Surveillance, Conventional Weapons Development, Biological Misuse

Techdirt has just written about concerns that AI development is proceeding more quickly than human oversight can monitor and control it. Since then, there has been lively debate about whether those fears are real or overblown. They mainly focus on the possible future threats from AI systems using RSI — recursive self-improvement — to drive their own development, at an ever-faster pace, by re-writing their own code. But a recent report from Anthropic underlines that AI is already being used by conventional threat actors — state-sponsored groups, financially-motivated criminals, commercial spyware vendors, state propaganda institutions, and politically-motivated individuals — in attempts to cause a wide range of harm, exploiting...

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