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Are Incompetent Humans More Dangerous Than AI?
American Thinker ^ | 30 May, 2025 | Julio Rivera

Posted on 05/30/2025 4:24:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The rise of artificial intelligence should have marked a new frontier in innovation, productivity, and security. Instead, it’s beginning to look more like the opening act of a high-tech cautionary tale. As AI advances in sophistication, it’s not ushering in utopia. It’s opening the floodgates to a new kind of threat -- one that uses data, mimicry, and digital misdirection to exploit our oldest and most reliable vulnerability: ourselves.

A recent report reveals how AI is now at the center of a technological arms race in cyberspace. Deepfake technology has reached the point where criminals can manufacture photorealistic video messages of business leaders directing financial transactions. In one case, an AI-generated video impersonating a company executive was convincing enough to authorize a transfer worth 20 million British pounds. That’s not science fiction -- that’s now.

Even more concerning is the rise of voice-cloning attacks, where a simple phone call -- one that sounds precisely like your boss, your spouse, or your colleague -- can be enough to bypass even the most diligent human gatekeepers. When the attacker sounds like someone you trust, the battle is half won before it begins.

But it doesn’t stop there. AI-powered phishing has revolutionized social engineering. Gone are the typo-laden emails from dubious overseas princes. In their place are personalized, well-structured messages tailored to your professional life, even echoing the tone and writing style of those you communicate with most often. These are not amateur-hour scams -- they are precision-crafted traps engineered by intelligent machines.

Yet for all the sophistication of modern AI threats, the most common factor behind successful cyberattacks remains devastatingly low-tech. Human error continues to be the Achilles’ heel of cybersecurity. NinjaOne’s findings underscore the point with brutal clarity: over 95% of breaches are the result of user mistakes.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: ai; cybersecurity; notcomparedtovlad; vladtheimploder
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To: CodeToad

“Trusting AI is about as retarded as trusting a google search.”

As President Reagan said, “Trust, but verify.”


21 posted on 05/30/2025 5:57:41 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: high info voter
Hasn't that been proven by the DemocRATS?
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Technically I think it is the HUMOIDS in general that
are responsible. Just look at the changes over time
across the world and how they became into function.

22 posted on 05/30/2025 6:02:20 AM PDT by deport
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To: CodeToad

But it is being given far too much credibility as an “automatic” tool. One example would be how many have been or could be harmed by AI decisions in healthcare coverage. If wrong it literally means life or death. I won’t be long and it will be trusted to make diagnosis and treatment mandates. And this is just the beginning of the infusion into everything...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2816204


23 posted on 05/30/2025 6:04:04 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Openurmind

AI is like Wikipedia. It’s a nice place to start research, but it is so unreliable that it had better not be used as a reference.


24 posted on 05/30/2025 6:06:48 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: kosciusko51; CodeToad

“As President Reagan said, “Trust, but verify.”

The problem is humans are inherently lazy. They are not going to verify... They are just going to roll with whatever it provides whether it is right or wrong.


25 posted on 05/30/2025 6:06:58 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: CodeToad

Wikipedia cannot be put in place to automate and control everyone’s lives against their will. AI can...


26 posted on 05/30/2025 6:10:00 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Openurmind

I guess my comment went over your head?


27 posted on 05/30/2025 6:14:16 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: 9YearLurker

You mean something like this?

Girl, 12, victim of ‘deepfake’ bullying porn image

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckvgezk74kgo


28 posted on 05/30/2025 6:14:33 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

No. I mean worse than that. (The simple answer there is to keep your 12yo off social media.)


29 posted on 05/30/2025 6:15:27 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: CodeToad

Did mine go over your head? We can choose to not use and opt out of Wikipedia. We are going to be forced by industries to use AI whether we want to or not. In fact soon regular search engines will be no more, they will all be AI only... And it will be used to “regurgitate” alternative history, facts, and reality. There will be no trusted references left to be able to compare and “verify” the results of AI output... They will all be feeding off each other to perpetuate a false reality.


30 posted on 05/30/2025 6:24:31 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: MtnClimber
Are Incompetent Humans More Dangerous Than AI?

Probably not, but malicious humans absolutely are.

31 posted on 05/30/2025 6:37:59 AM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republic's warped and obscure humor needs since 1999)
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To: BitWielder1; 9YearLurker; MtnClimber

I see a big, silver lining in this story.

In short, a return of Situational Awareness.

Maybe we got lazy in the 70s and 80s. We “trusted” the government, science, the authorities, doctors, colleges, reporters, and so on.

Especially after 2020, trust in the aforementioned entities plummeted (for about half of the country).

Nowadays, for the Red Pilled half, our Spider Sense tingles whenever we see a news story, some FDA puppet head speaking, etc.

If the next phase of liberty is distrusting every email or image hitting my phone or computer, so be it.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance. Game on.


32 posted on 05/30/2025 6:40:15 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: DoodleBob

The news stories are the least of how it will be used.

Think social credit score on steroids.


33 posted on 05/30/2025 6:41:47 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: MtnClimber
We've had UI (UnIntelligent) humans forever. We call them stupid.
34 posted on 05/30/2025 7:24:04 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations.)
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To: MtnClimber
Since AI does not exist and AI probably never will exist.... yes.
35 posted on 05/30/2025 8:17:33 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: L,TOWM

Bonhoffer make similar statements about stupidity being more of a danger than evil.

https://bigthink.com/thinking/bonhoeffers-theory-stupidity-evil/


36 posted on 05/30/2025 8:59:58 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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