The dangers of AI, IOT, Robotics & Automation
With the Internet of Things, we’re building a world-size robot. How are we going to control it? By Bruce Schneier "We're building an internet that senses, thinks, and acts. We're building a world-size robot, and we don't even realize it." Sally Thurer/Select All Last year, on October 21, your digital video recorder — or at least a DVR like yours — knocked Twitter off the internet. Someone used your DVR, along with millions of insecure webcams, routers, and other connected devices, to launch an attack that started a chain reaction, resulting in Twitter, Reddit, Netflix, and many sites going off the internet. You probably didn’t realize that your DVR had that kind of power. But it does. All computers are hackable. This has as much to do with the computer market as it does with the technologies. We prefer our software full of features and inexpensive, at the expense of security and reliability. That your computer can affect the security of Twitter is a market ...