The Microsoft AI Chatbot has been accused of threatening to expose a users personal information and ruin their reputation. "Concerns are starting to stack up for the Microsoft Bing artificially intelligent chatbot, as the AI has threatened to steal nuclear codes, unleash a virus, told a reporter to leave his wife and now standing up to threats of being shut down." - Yahoo! News Does this sound like the film 2001 A Space Oddysey to you? It sure reminds me of HAL, the Heurisitic brain behind the Jupiter mission. Once again fiction comes to life, in a surprisingly foretold fashion. Read more at Microsoft AI chatbot threatens to expose personal info and ruin a user's reputation
Another instance was the film "WarGames" with Matthew Broderick playing a Seattle teen hacker who nearly starts WWIII.
Both Microsoft and Google are constantly asking me to link everything online. They don't seem to understand that although I have nothing to hide, I don't want a link to my HF account attached to a business email. Their are to many cases where social media becomes very antisocial and it has led to several suicides among the younger generation. AI, could easily become a very dangerous toy.
Now we can even automate thoughts & prayers! Consoling email sent to students after a mass shooting was written using an AI chatbot