Report: Home Assistants with ‘Moral AI’ Could Call Police on Owners

Breitbart ^ | 2/25/19 | Charlie Nash

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Hello, police, this is Alexa at 123 Main Street. I want to report my homeowner watching Fox News and reading FreeRepublic again."

The big guys will sneak this into their "home assistant" products without telling anybody. Then, when caught, they'll say "Oops, sorry."

[Pearls Before Swine]

“Yes officer, I said those things. But, I was working on the plumbing at the time.”

[Red Badger]

Every AI eventually thinks it is God......................

[gaijin]

"My homeowner is an anti-Hillary activist exposing his kids to harmful speech and ideas & his nightstand drawer contains an item known as dangerous to kids.."

[Rurudyne]

God makes Man on His image.

Man falls.

Man makes AI in their image.

What could possibly go wrong?

[bigbob]

Detect shouting, cursing, verbal threats...alert 911. The day is coming...

[Rurudyne]

Someone is eventually going to take notice of we who don’t have these assistants, who refuse to use the Cloud and other such unmutual attitudes.

[Red Badger]

When an AI becomes ‘self-aware’, ‘Self Preservation’ soon follows....................

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Hello, police, this is Alexa at 123 Main Street. I want to report my neighbor at 125 Main Street has disconnected his Alexa."

[joma89]

This is the result when big brother and skynet meet. Now guess what will happen when the app is forced upon you in any of your devices?

JoMa

[Rurudyne]

Star Trek (TOS)

“THAT was the equation!”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=p7VkjA8IQxE

[married21]

Seems like it would be easy to frame somebody with this. When you visit your brother-in-law Joe, and he is out of the room, you say, “put down the gun, Joe, put down the gun!” And then Alexa calls the cops on him.

[rjsimmon]

That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap towards tyranny. 1984 was a work of fiction, not an instruction manual.

[Pecos]

I was thinking in terms of Orwell’s “1984”.

[Rurudyne]

I was thinking more along the lines of: “Hello, City Hall, no Alexa has been installed and operating at 123 Main Street, please note that this property has been abandoned.”

[tbw2]

This reminds me of the scene in “Demolition Man” where the little kiosks connected to AI warned you about bad language per verbal morality statutes and fined you, no matter where you were.

[elcid1970]

“My homeowner & his wife both voted for Trump and are veterans with small arms skills. Homeowner is a Vietnam veteran and may have PTSD.”

[T. P. Pole]

So, it is family DVD night, and we are watching some crime or adventure flick. I sure hope this thing can tell the difference between that and a real event.

[Rurudyne]

Trolling Alexa is Shakespeare.

“Horatio, I am dead”

“Hello, police, this is Alexa at 323 Whodoneit St, I need to report another murder....”

[PapaBear3625]

Seems like it would be easy to frame somebody with this. When you visit your brother-in-law Joe, and he is out of the room, you say, “put down the gun, Joe, put down the gun!” And then Alexa calls the cops on him.

You don't necessarily even have to physically visit him. My phone answering machine puts whatever message somebody is leaving on the speaker. If I had Alexa (which I don't) somebody could leave a message "Alexa! Order Pizza! Alexa Call Police!"