From terror attacks and child abuse to blackmail plots, kidnap scams and corporate espionage
"Mom, these bad men have me, help me," Jennifer DeStefano reportedly heard her sobbing 15-year-old daughter Briana say before a male kidnapper demanded a $1m ransom, which dropped to $50,000 .
"It’s pretty extraordinary," said Professor Lewis Griffin, one of the authors of a 2020 research paper published by UCL's Dawes Centre for Future Crime, which ranked potential illegal uses of AI. In 2019, the chief executive of a UK-based energy firm transferred €220,000 to fraudsters using AI to impersonate his boss's voice, according to reports.
In the future, deepfake images or videos, which appear to show someone doing something they haven't done, could be used to carry out blackmail plots. "The true AI aspect is where you just send up a drone and say, 'go and cause mischief' and AI decides to go and divebomb someone, which sounds a bit outlandish," Mr Hall said.While ChatGPT - a large language model that has been trained on a massive amount of text data - will not provide instructions on how to make a nail bomb, for example, there could be other similar models without the same guardrails, which would suggest carrying out malicious acts.
Current laws are about"encouraging other people" and"training a chatbot would not be encouraging a human", he said, adding that it would be difficult to criminalise the possession of a particular chatbot or its developers.
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