A Technological Perspective on Misuse of Available AI
Abstract
Potential malicious misuse of civilian artificial intelligence (AI) poses serious threats to security on a national and international level. Besides defining autonomous systems from a technological viewpoint and explaining how AI development is characterized, we show how already existing and openly available AI technology could be misused. To underline this, we developed three exemplary use cases of potentially misused AI that threaten political, digital and physical security. The use cases can be built from existing AI technologies and components from academia, the private sector and the developer-community. This shows how freely available AI can be combined into autonomous weapon systems. Based on the use cases, we deduce points of control and further measures to prevent the potential threat through misused AI. Further, we promote the consideration of malicious misuse of civilian AI systems in the discussion on autonomous weapon systems (AWS).
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@article{arxiv.2403.15325,
title = {A Technological Perspective on Misuse of Available AI},
author = {Lukas Pöhler and Valentin Schrader and Alexander Ladwein and Florian von Keller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.15325},
year = {2024}
}
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Presented at the UN Meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, 30 August 2018