Introduction
The rapid progress and development in artificial intelligence (AI) is prompting desperate speculation about its dual use applications and security risks. From autonomous weapons systems (AWS) to facial recognition technology to decision-making algorithms, each emerging application of artificial intelligence brings with it both good and bad. It is this dual nature of artificial intelligence technology that is bringing enormous security risks to not only individuals and entities across nations: its government, industries, organizations and academia (NGIOA) but also the future of humanity.
The reality is that any new AI innovation might be used for both beneficial and harmful purposes: any single algorithm that may provide important economic applications might also lead to the production of unprecedented weapons of mass destruction on a scale that is difficult to fathom. As a result, the concerns about artificial intelligence-based automation are growing.
With the advances in machine learning, computing power, borderless investment and data availability, AI has potentially universal applications, a fact that exponentially complicates the security risks involved. Moreover, since integration of AI is invisible to the human eye, the ability to cognitize anything and everything fundamentally changes the security landscape. AI’s automation and intelligence bring promise as well as the potential for destruction.
The Democratization of Computing Power
The evolution of computing technologies has democratized technological development, knowledge, information and intelligence. The rapid growth of data analytics and processing technology position cyber, electronic, quantum and autonomous weapons alongside nuclear, biological and nanoweapons in the elite club of weapons capable of unleashing catastrophic harm to humanity.
This is because connected computers, networks and cyberspace have become an integral part of all digital processes across NGIOA. Since computer code and connected computers have connected cyberspace to geospace and space, everything is now controlled or goes through cyberspace.
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