Deepfakes – realistic but fabricated videos created by AI algorithms trained on massive amounts of online footage – are popping up on social media, blurring fact and fiction.
WASHINGTON: The Biden administration is poised to open a new front in efforts to protect U.S. AI from China and Russia, with preliminary plans to install guardrails around cutting-edge AI models, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Reported. Government and private sector researchers believe that U.S. adversaries can use this model, which mines vast amounts of text and images to summarize information and generate content, to launch offensive cyberattacks and create powerful There are concerns that it could be used to create biological weapons. Here are some of the threats posed by AI.
Deepfakes (realistic but fabricated videos created by AI algorithms trained on massive amounts of online footage) surface on social media, blurring fact and fiction in the polarized world of American politics. It has become.
Synthetic media like this has been around for a few years, but has been gaining momentum in the past year with a number of new “generative AI” tools, such as Midjourney, that make it cheap and easy to create convincing deepfakes. was further strengthened. Artificial intelligence-powered image creation tools provided by companies such as OpenAI and Microsoft MSFT.O have failed to generate false information related to elections and voting, despite each having policies prohibiting the creation of misleading content. It could be used to create photos that could potentially promote information, the researchers said in a March report.
Some disinformation campaigns simply leverage AI's ability to mimic real news articles as a way to spread false information. Major social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are working to ban and remove deepfakes, but their effectiveness in cracking down on such content varies.
For example, last year, a Chinese government-controlled news site using a generative AI platform released a report that previously circulated that the United States was operating a laboratory in Kazakhstan to produce biological weapons to use against China. and disseminated false claims to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ) stated in the 2024 Homeland Threat Assessment.
Speaking at an AI event in Washington on Wednesday, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the capabilities of AI and the “intentions of state and non-state actors to use disinformation at scale to wreak havoc” He said there is no easy solution to this problem because it is a combination of factors. Promote democracy, promote propaganda, and shape world perception. “Right now, the offense is way ahead of the defense,'' he said.
U.S. intelligence agencies, think tanks, and academics are increasingly concerned about the risks posed by foreign bad actors gaining access to advanced AI capabilities. Researchers from Gryphon Scientific and Rand Corporation pointed out that advanced AI models could provide useful information for creating biological weapons.
Griffon explains how large-scale language models (LLMs) – computer programs that extract from large amounts of text and generate responses to queries – can be used by hostile actors to harm the realm of life sciences. and found that they “could provide potentially helpful information.” Malicious actors create biological weapons by providing useful, accurate and detailed information throughout every step of this pathway. ” For example, we have found that an LLM has the potential to provide postdoctoral-level knowledge for troubleshooting problems when dealing with a virus with pandemic potential. RAND research has shown that LLM can be useful in planning and executing biological attacks. They found that LLM could propose an aerosol delivery method for botulinum toxin.
