Stephen Cobb AI Notes and Links

This page shares my thinking and reporting about Artificial Intelligence, much of which is focused on the risks created by the use or abuse of AI technology. 

I'm sure there are many profound things that can be said about AI, a technology for which humanity has great hopes but also intense loathing, That makes it easy to miss the point I like to make at the beginning of my classes on AI and cybersecurity: AI is chips and code fed by data, connections, and electricity. 
   
Banner that says AI = chips + code, fed by data + connections + electricity
AI is chips and code fed by data, connections, and electricity

In other words,while AI might sound like an all knowing, they all are all vulnerable, hackable pieces of hardware and software, useless without electricity, and prone to errors and deceptions committed by their makers, us humans. 



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

Any further work on AI by Stephen Cobb will be listed here.