AI is going to supercharge surveillance
People misunderstand the dangers of AI. The danger isn't (or isn't yet anyway) that AI is going to develop will and agency and oppose us. The danger is that AI is a force multiplier in whatever you do because it allows the intelligent to automate formerly rote tasks.<p>For example, take self-driving cars. Formerly all you could do if you had a remote execution exploit was smash running cars into ditches or oncoming traffic. Bad, but not the end of the world. Now you can take 200k Teslas and <i>very easily</i> target every gas station or other soft target in the developed world. (I'm actually concerned about this, see <a href="https://www.zachaysan.com/cars" rel="nofollow">https://www.zachaysan.com/cars</a> for an, admittedly long, take on the matter.)<p>The same is true with AI everywhere. Don't read individual Twitter accounts, scan them all, build a data model to target the influenceable influencers. Iterate.<p>Don't try to get your honeypot to date the head of Goldman Sachs, use data science to figure out which 1000 25 year olds have a good shot at heading it up in 10 years.<p>The cyber game / international relations is about to get much more extreme. Offence is so much easier than defence and AI is turning every little touch of exhaust data or device into a tool of war or espionage.