Ciaran Martin (UK National Cyber Security Centre) during CYBERUK held at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images)
Revelations 13:14 “…by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth…”
Important Takeaways:
- A.I. ‘Risks Undermining the Fabric of Our Society,’ Says Top British Spy
- Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has made making convincing fakes so easy, it threatens society, so says Ciaran Martin, the former head of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the UK’s NSA equivalent
- AI is now making it much easier to fake things, much easier to spoof voices, much easier to look like genuine information, much easier to put that out at scale… So having a sense of what is true and reliable, it’s going to become much more difficult. And that’s something that risks undermining the fabric of our society.
- Martin’s comments come months after Europol warned the recent spread of A.I. risked a surge in fraud, as “ChatGPT’s ability to draft highly realistic text makes it a useful tool for phishing purposes… can be used to impersonate the style of speech of specific individuals or groups. This capability can be abused at scale to mislead potential victims into placing their trust in the hands of criminal actors.”
- Martin warns risks leaving governments “behind the curve” as development outpaces the law meant to constrain it
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