AI threat alert: Artificial intelligence risks need to be better understood and managed
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While artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of transforming societies in positive ways, it also presents risks that need to be better understood and managed, new research has warned. Joe Burton, a professor at Lancaster University, UK, contends that AI and algorithms are more than mere tools used by national security agencies to thwart malicious online activities.
In a research paper recently published in the Technology in Society Journal, Burton suggests that AI and algorithms can also fuel polarisation, radicalism, and political violence, thereby becoming a threat to national security themselves.
“AI is often framed as a tool to be used to counter violent extremism. Here is the other side of the debate,” said Burton.
The paper looks at how AI has been securitised throughout...