it is the lack of accountability and punishment/judgement
for crimes that is actually THE most dangerous.
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 ...
The threats are getting more sophisticated.
Hasn’t that been proven by the DemocRATS?
And people are getting dumber. Not a good combination.
How about evil humans using “AI” as a psyop, cover, and tool for harm?
I was a financial services regulator 25 years ago. At a weekly meeting to discuss if any of our current examinations were worthy of an attorney, one lawyer offered an observation that Guy X should not be escalated because “it sounds like he was being stupid, not evil.” My response be came known as “’The _______ [my last name] Doctrine”.
If it was stupidity, we gotta get him out of the business. An evil guy will control themselves sometimes because they don’t want to get caught and keep on being evil. The stupid guy is going to hose everyone he runs into because he can’t help it... he’s stupid...”
The danger of AI is when humans put too much trust into AI produced information.
The decline of humanity is going to be on the back of loss of spirituality and purpose. It’s the meaning in our lives that drives us. Being on snapchat or instagram or tiktok does not give meaning to your life. And, doing that instead of exploring the world, reading, and thinking about things will lead to people being more ignorant - as you alluded to.
I have no doubt this is happening. It is probably the biggest danger: Evil humans using AI for their own agenda, free of any oversight or regulation.
What if incompetent humans are the ones programming AI?
I have no doubt this is happening. It is probably the biggest danger: Evil humans using AI for their own agenda, free of any oversight or regulation.
“Programmed by fellas, with compassion and vision.”
Trusting AI is about as retarded as trusting a google search.
I’m not sure how much regulation will help if the state is the biggest threat with it.
;)
Artificial intelligence will never replace natural stupidity.
” And people are getting dumber. Not a good combination.”
And AI is going to make them even dumber. And it is going to happen relatively overnight. Us it or lose it...
I asked Grok the other day to list my state representatives and their party affiliation. There are only 7 of them. It got one wrong . It listed a previous rep who had been primaried out. If AI can’t answer a really simple question like that it’s basically useless. I challenged it and it said, oh yeah, you’re right. Sorry.
“Trusting AI is about as retarded as trusting a google search.”
Absolutely. Yet they are hell bent on incorporating it into every aspect of our daily lives. They are already trusting it to manage critical systems and databases they should not.
I am glad to see you are also intelligent enough to be skeptical about this trend of trust... I absolutely think there are some lines that need to be drawn and not crossed.
I worked with some of the largest databases and data centers ever created, and I watched “AI” grow from “big data” to interesting results, but none of it suggested anything other than just a more sophisticated search engine with better data sources. AI is not intelligence, and cannot it think. It does not discern, it only regurgitates.
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