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The Department of Justice indicted six officers of Russia’s GRU military intelligence service in October 2020 on charges of hacking and deploying malware. Andrew Harnik – Pool/Getty Images Justin Pelletier, Rochester Institute of Technology As tensions mount between Russia and the West over Ukraine, the threat of Russian cyberattacks against the U.S. increases. The Department of Homeland Security issued an …

The increasing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in public decision making is raising critical issues around fairness and human rights. Getty Images Alison Gillwald, University of Cape Town and Rachel Adams, University of Cape Town Artificial intelligence and machine learning have the potential to contribute to the resolution of some of the most intractable problems of our time. …

Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University Elon Musk announced a humanoid robot designed to help with those repetitive, boring tasks people hate doing. Musk suggested it could run to the grocery store for you, but presumably it would handle any number of tasks involving manual labor. Predictably, social media filled with references to a string of dystopian sci-fi movies about robots …

James Johnson, University of Leicester When Google’s AlphaGo defeated the Chinese grandmaster at a game of Go in 2017, China was confronted with its own “Sputnik moment”: a prompt to up its game on the development of artifical intelligence (AI). Sure enough, Beijing is pursuing launch a national-level AI innovation agenda for “civil-military fusion”. It’s part of China’s ambitious quest …

SWEvil Wim Naudé, United Nations University The invention of an artificial super-intelligence has been a central theme in science fiction since at least the 19th century. From E.M. Forster’s short story The Machine Stops (1909) to the recent HBO television series Westworld, writers have tended to portray this possibility as an unmitigated disaster. But this issue is no longer one …

bettervector/Shutterstock The Anh Han, Teesside University; Luís Moniz Pereira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Tom Lenaerts, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Ever since artificial intelligence (AI) made the transition from theory to reality, research and development centres across the world have been rushing to come up with the next big AI breakthrough. This competition is sometimes called the “AI race”. …

From the pyramids to Apollo 11 – can AI ever rival human creativity? Wonders of the world. Sam valadi/Flickr, CC BY-SA Tim Schweisfurth, University of Southern Denmark and René Chester Goduscheit, Aarhus University The European Patent Office recently turned down an application for a patent that described a food container. This was not because the invention was not novel or …

You leave bits of your personal data behind online, and companies are happy to trade in them. metamorworks/ iStock/Getty Images Plus Karuna Pande Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County You’re trailing bits of personal data – such as credit card numbers, shopping preferences and which news articles you read – as you travel around the internet. Large internet companies make …

Shutterstock Tiberio Caetano, University of Sydney and Bill Simpson-Young, University of Sydney From Google searches and dating sites to detecting credit card fraud, artificial intelligence (AI) keeps finding new ways to creep into our lives. But can we trust the algorithms that drive it? As humans, we make errors. We can have attention lapses and misinterpret information. Yet when we …

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, SOAS, University of London At the heart of the development of AI appears to be a search for perfection. And it could be just as dangerous to humanity as the one that came from philosophical and pseudoscientific ideas of the 19th and early 20th centuries and led to the horrors of colonialism, world war and the Holocaust. Instead …