Secretary Rubio Meets ”FrankenAI”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the latest high-profile victim of an illegal impersonation enabled by artificial intelligence. Several nations’ foreign ministers, a state governor and a U.S. senator received voice messages apparently from him.
It's hard to overstate the damage such seemingly official communications involving senior government leaders with national security responsibilities could cause. And that is before further, pell-mell evolutions of artificial intelligence fed by a technology race with Communist China create what amounts to “FrankenAI.”
The Trump administration wants no regulatory interference impeding that race. In its absence, the U.S. Senate just voted nearly unanimously against an amendment that would have precluded statesfrom regulating artificial intelligence for ten years.
Secretary Rubio’s experience is but the latest warning that oversight and some regulation is required to warn of, and hopefully minimize, truly FrankenAI.
This is Frank Gaffney.
As with all fraud and subversion, you need the cooperation of the listener for it to be successful. AI has tricked a great many of us simply because of our propensity to believe what we hear on media. The answer is to not believe anything you hear on media. Hopefully, the Government and media can figure out how to regain the trust of the public, but, until then, AI will be plenty smart to fool ALMOST all the people ALMOST all the time. It is pretty easy to spot, but may not always be that way. So, we are in a tough spot. I just do not think regulation will stop it. After all, it has never stopped even a single person who wants an illegal drug from getting it. We humans just have to figure out how to get smarter, or at least smarter than AI (you would think real intelligence could give "artificial" intelligence a run for its money, but the evidence is not promising).