Cobbs on AI

This page shares our thinking and reporting about artificial intelligence (AI), much of which is focused on the risks created by both the use and the abuse of AI technology. 

One Weird But True Thing About AI...   

AI is often discussed as though it is an all-knowing, almost living thing, but in fact every instance of AI is a vulnerable, hackable collection of hardware and software, useless without electricity, prone to errors and abuse committed by their makers, us humans. 

Banner that says AI = chips + code, fed by data + connections + electricity
AI is chips and code fed by data, connections, and electricity

To be clear, I do see value in numerous software tools currently marketed and referred to as AI or AI-enabled. But I have serious reservations about the ways in which AI is being developed, hyped, deployed, and used/misused/abused.

For example, I don't think AI will deliver a net gain when it comes to cybersecurity and data privacy. Indeed, in my opinion, absent a massive and rapid shift in global attitudes toward cybercrime reduction, rampant cybercrime and fraud will prevent potentially beneficial AI gaining the trust required to produce those benefits at scale.  

Further work on AI will be listed and linked here as it is published.

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