{"id":3992,"date":"2021-03-26T20:30:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T20:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1344578"},"modified":"2021-03-26T20:30:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T20:30:44","slug":"can-ai-be-hypnotized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=3992","title":{"rendered":"Can AI be hypnotized?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It\u2019s no longer considered science fiction fodder to imagine a human-level machine intelligence in our lifetimes. Year after year we see the status quo in AI research shattered as yesterday\u2019s algorithms bear way to today\u2019s systems.<\/p>\n

One day, perhaps within a matter of decades, we might build machines with artificial neural networks that imitate our brains in every meaningful way. And when that happens, it\u2019ll be important to make sure they\u2019re not as easy to hack as we are.<\/p>\n

Robo-hypno-tism?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Holy Grail of AI is human-level intelligence<\/a>. Modern AI might seem pretty smart given all the hyperbolic headlines you see, but the truth is that there isn\u2019t a robot on the planet that can walk into my kitchen today and make me a cup of coffee without any outside help. <\/span><\/p>\n

This is because AI doesn\u2019t think. It doesn\u2019t have a \u201ctheater of the mind<\/a>\u201d in which novel thoughts engage with memories and motivators. It just turns input into output when it\u2019s told to. But some AI researchers believe there are methods beyond deep learning<\/a> by which we can achieve a more \u201cnatural\u201d form of artificial intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the most commonly pursued paths towards artificial general intelligence (AGI) \u2013 which is, basically, another way of saying human-level AI \u2013 is the development of artificial neural networks<\/a> that mimic our brains. <\/span><\/p>\n

And, if you ask me, that begs the question: could a human-level machine intelligence be hacked by a hypnotist? <\/span><\/p>\n

Killer robots, killer schmobots<\/strong><\/p>\n

While everyone else is worried about the Terminator breaking down the door, it feels like the fear of human vulnerabilities in the machines we trust is being overlooked.<\/span><\/p>\n

The field of hypnotism is an oft-debated one, but there\u2019s probably something to it. Entire forests-worth of peer-reviewed research papers have been published on hypnotism and its impact on psychotherapy and other fields. Consider me a skeptic who believes mindfulness and hypnotism are closer than cousins. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, according to recent research, a human can be placed into an altered state of consciousness through the invocation of a single word. This, of course, doesn\u2019t work with just anyone. In the study I read<\/a>, they found a \u2018hypnotic virtuoso\u2019 to test their hypothesis on. <\/span><\/p>\n

And if the scientific community is willing to consider the applicability of a single-individual study on hypnotism to the public at large, we should probably worry about how it\u2019ll effect our robots too.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s all fun and games when you\u2019re imagining a hypnotized Alexa slurring its words and recalling its childhood as Jeff Bezos\u2019 alarm clock. But when you imagine a terrorist hacking millions of driverless vehicles at the same time using hypnotic traffic light patterns, it\u2019s a bit spookier. <\/span><\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t this just fear-mongering?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not actually all that far-fetched. Machine bias<\/a> is, arguably, the biggest problem in the field of artificial technology. We feed our machines mass quantities of human-generated or human-labeled data, there\u2019s no way for them to avoid our biases. That\u2019s why GPT-3 is inherently biased against Muslims<\/a> or why when MIT trained a bot on Reddit it became a psychopath<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

The closer we come to imitating the way humans learn and think in our AI systems, the more likely it\u2019ll be that exploits that effect the human mind will be adaptable for a digital one. <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not literally suggesting that people will walk around with pendulum wave toys<\/a> hacking robots like wizards. In reality, we\u2019ll need to be prepared for a paradigm where hackers can bypass security by overwhelming an AI with signals that wouldn\u2019t normally affect a traditionally dumb computer.<\/span><\/p>\n

AI that listens can be manipulated via audio, AI that sees can be tricked into seeing what we want it to. And AI that processes information in the same humans do should, theoretically, be capable of being hypnotized just like us.<\/p>\n

Published March 26, 2021 \u2014 20:30 UTC <\/p>\n

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