Hi-Tech Crime CRIM30375

Four ways criminals could use AI to target more victims Building a profile of someone can make it easier for criminals to gain access to their personal accounts. Metamorworks / Shutterstock Daniel Prince , Lancaster University Warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) are ubiquitous right now. They have included fearful messages about AI’s potential to cause the extinction of humans, invoking images of the Terminator movies. The UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has even set up a summit to discuss AI safety . However, we have been using AI tools for a long time – from the algorithms used to recommend relevant products on shopping websites, to cars with technology that recognises traffic signs and provides lane positioning . AI is a tool to increase efficiency, process and sort large volumes of data, and offload decision making. Nevertheless, these tools are open to everyone, including criminals. And we’re already seeing the early stag...

Google turns 25: the search engine revolutionised how we access information, but will it survive AI? Flickr/sergio m mahugo, Edited by The Conversation , CC BY-NC-SA Mark Sanderson , RMIT University ; Julian Thomas , RMIT University ; Kieran Hegarty , RMIT University , and Lisa M. Given , RMIT University Today marks an important milestone in the history of the internet: Google’s 25th birthday. With billions of search queries submitted each day, it’s difficult to remember how we ever lived without the search engine. What was it about Google that led it to revolutionise information access? And will artificial intelligence (AI) make it obsolete, or enhance it? Let’s look at how our access to information has changed through the decades – and where it might lead as advanced AI and Google Search become increasingly entwined. Google’s homepage in 1998. Brent Payne/Flickr , CC BY-SA ...