The latest report on the potentially malicious uses of artificial intelligence reads like a pitch for the next series of the dystopian TV show Black Mirror.
Drones using facial recognition technology to hunt down and kill victims. Information being manipulated to distort the social media feeds of targeted individuals. Cleaning robots being hacked to bomb VIPs. The potentially harmful uses of AI are as vast as the human imagination.
One of the big questions of our age is: how can we maximise the undoubted benefits of AI while limiting its downsides? It is a tough challenge. All technologies are dualistic, particularly so with AI given it can significantly increase the scale and potency of malicious acts and lower their costs.