Artificial intelligence is ripe for abuse, tech executive warns : ’a fascist’s dream’
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/13/artificial-intelligence-ai-abuses-fascism-donald-trump
Microsoft’s Kate Crawford tells SXSW that society must prepare for authoritarian movements to test the ‘power without accountability’ of artificial intelligence As artificial intelligence becomes more powerful, people need to make sure it’s not used by authoritarian regimes to centralize power and target certain populations, Microsoft Research’s Kate Crawford warned on Sunday. In her SXSW session, titled Dark Days : AI and the Rise of Fascism, Crawford, who studies the social impact of machine (...)