MEMRI Publishes Preliminary Findings From New Study From Its Domestic Terrorism Threat Monitor (DTTM) Project And Analysis Of AI Developers' Attempts To Sell Technology's Safety While Violent Extremists Plan To 'Wreak Havoc' With It
*WASHINGTON, D.C. / ACCESSWIRE / May 17, 2023 /* The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) published a new analysis piece by MEMRI Executive Director Steven Stalinsky, Ph.D. on violent extremists' use of AI. The piece stresses that this is ongoing as the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and The Law hosted a hearing on May 16 about oversight of AI.
The analysis, titled "As AI Developers Try To Sell Senate Hearing On The Technology's Safety, Violent Extremists Are Planning To 'Wreak Havoc' With It," reviews extensive research from the MEMRI Domestic Terrorism Threat Monitor (DTTM) on AI use by racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists (REMVE). The research will be published later this month in a major new DTTM study, titled "Neo-Nazis And White Supremacists Worldwide Look To Artificial Intelligence (AI) - A National Security Threat In The Making To Which No Government Is Paying Attention - For Purposes Such As Recruitment, Harassing Minorities, And Criminal Activity Including Hacking Banks, Overthrowing Government, Attacking Infrastructure, Promoting Guerilla Warfare, And Using WMDs."
Dr. Stalinsky writes: "Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and antigovernment groups - racially/ethnically motivated violent extremists, aka REMVE - are discussing and posting about AI use on the main social media platforms that they favor. Privately and openly, they are talking about and testing and using AI, in addition to developing their own versions and recruiting engineers and teams for special projects, including for breaking into banks."
He stresses that the most troubling examples found by the DTTM research team in its work studying this topic "involve extremists actually discussing the use of AI for planning terror attacks, including making weapons of mass destruction. One accelerationist group which seeks to bring about the total collapse of society recently conducted, in a Facebook group, a conversation about trying to trick an AI chat bot into providing details for making mustard gas and napalm. These and other examples are detailed in a new MEMRI DTTM report to be released later this month."
Dr. Stalinsky concludes: "Whether the call to halt AI development has come in time remains to be seen. But regardless, this private industry should not be operating without government oversight. It is clear is that the industry needs to follow standards and create guidelines to examine issues like this - moves that have still not been made for terrorist use of social media."
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