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Chasing Utopia - When a tech chief insider warns of the rise of AI
The rise of AI… With talk of AI being everywhere it was the launch of ChatGPT that gave everyone a chance to try out what is undoubtedly an astonishing world changing piece of technology. And whilst it seems to have been used by most of us to produce amusing pictures and film clips the prescient documentary ‘Chasing Utopia’ follows Mo Gawdat, a former chief officer at Google X, who saw the very real danger underlined by a throwaway comment by Elon Musk in an interview where he says, ….‘if AI goes wrong it can wipe out humanity’. AI is apparently doubling its IQ every six months, a sort of mirror opposite to Prince Harry, and the documentary follows Gawdat as he travels the world talking to other IT leaders in their field and also giving lectures warning of what is unfolding at a dangerously rapid and seemingly out of control pace. And it is frightening with tech companies powering ahead to advance AI because it’s about business profit and becoming the most powerful monopoly so much so that there’s more money piled into developing AI than there was in putting a man on the moon. Gawdat, having seen an AI robotic arm suddenly develop the ability to instinctively pick up objects then saw the other robotic arms follow suit, believes there a benevolence that can be introduced into the neural capacity of AI that could prevent the machines taking over. Whether this can be seen as scaremongering or the realisation that machines are very quickly becoming far smarter than us, albeit with our Editor that started with the invention of the abacus (‘You’re fired! – Ed), but it’s getting the tech industries to do something about it. The danger…. What it makes clear is that the intelligence is developing so quickly that in the not so distant future it can put everyone out of a job. Incrementally AI, in terms of making people redundant, it is moving up the intellect job ladder from the very bottom which suggests that its already started with Brooklyn Beckham. From a capitalist point of view that might be ideal for a CEO wanting to push profits but not realising that AI would put them out of a job also. Gawdat is right in his worry about the rise of AI and his mission to warn those that are in a position to do something is admirable but his solutions feel a little vague if not naïve in how to contain the technology when wealth and power seems to be the driving force behind AI’s seemingly unstoppable advance. The future? The malign effect of the rise of AI generated influenc...
'It's here': Google issues dire warning after catching hackers using AI ...
Google said Monday that it had disrupted a criminal group’s attempt to use artificial intelligence to exploit another company’s previously unknown digital vulnerability, adding to heightened worries across government and private industry about AI’s risks for cybersecurity. Google shared limited information about the attackers and the target, but John Hultquist, chief analyst at the tech giant’s threat intelligence arm, said it represents a moment cybersecurity experts have warned about for years: malicious hackers arming themselves with AI to supercharge their ability to break into the world’s computers. “It’s here,” Hultquist said. “The era of AI-driven vulnerability and exploitation is already here.” It comes at a time of leaps in AI’s abilities to find vulnerabilities, including the Mythos model announced a month ago by Anthropic. Among those trying to bolster their defenses is President Donald Trump’s White House, which has shifted its approach in how it plans to vet the most powerful AI models before their public release. After following through with a campaign promise to repeal Democratic President Joe Biden’s guardrails around the fast-developing technology, the Republican administration and its allies are now sending mixed signals about the government playing a larger role in AI oversight. “Some people don’t want there to be a regulatory response to this and others do,” said Dean Ball, a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation who was previously a White House tech policy adviser and a lead author of Trump’s AI policy roadmap last year. “I don’t like regulation,” Ball said. “I would prefer for things not to be regulated. But I think we need to in this case.” Google says it found evidence of AI helping in cyberattack Google said it observed a group of prominent “threat actors” planning a big operation relying on a bug they had found. The vulnerability allowed them to bypass two-factor authentication to access a popular online system administration tool, which Google declined to name. The company called it a zero-day exploit, a cyberattack that takes advantage of a previously unknown security vulnerability. “Zero-day” refers to the fact that the security engineers have had zero days to develop a fix for the vulnerability. Google said it notified the affected company and law enforcement and was able to disrupt the operation before it caused any damage. But as it traced the hackers’ footprints, it found evidence they had used a...
Chasing Utopia review - renegade Google exec Mo Gawdat searches for ...
The Cassandra at the film's centre is Mo Gawdat, former chief business officer at Google X, now a touring cautionary voice trying to get the world to listen about the perils of AI.
Chasing Utopia review - renegade Google exec Mo Gawdat searc...
Delivering much information about the scale of whats coming, documentary also follows Gawdats campaign to get the programs with empathyAnother day, another warning about AI; vis-a-vis the reality we all know, this has roughly the same reassuring effect as a plane fuselage ripping off mid-flight.
