In February 2024, the state of California accused Cruise of misleading investigators about the cause and outcome of his injuries.
Vulnerabilities in Apple’s security features
In 2017, Apple’s Face ID facial recognition feature was allegedly fooled by a fairly simple scam, and there have been long-standing concerns that Apple’s tools tend to work better for with white people.
According to Apple, this technology uses a deep neural network on the device, but this does not avoid concerns about the impact of AI being closely tied to device security.
Mistaking a member of parliament for a criminal
A 2018 analysis by the American Civil Liberties Union found that Amazon’s Rekognition AI, part of Amazon Web Services, misidentified 28 members of Congress as people who had been arrested. This error occurred with images of members of both major parties, especially people of color.
The worst scandal
In one of the worst AI-related scandals to hit the social safety net, the Australian government used an automated system to force legitimate welfare recipients to repay payments. that subsidy.
More than 500,000 people were affected by the system, known as Robodebt, which was in place between 2016 and 2019. The Australian government has faced additional legal issues stemming from its implementation, including including having to return more than 700 million Australian dollars (about 460 million US dollars) to the victims.
AI spoofing feature
Deep fake technology is the treasure of scammers
AI deepfakes have been used by cybercriminals to do everything from spoofing the voices of political candidates, to creating fake sports press conferences, to creating celebrity likenesses. sounds that never happened before…
However, one of the most worrying applications of the technology is deep fakes. A British company lost more than $25 million after a worker was convinced by a deepfake disguised as his colleague to transfer the money.
Election interference
As AI becomes a popular platform for understanding world news, a worrying trend is developing. According to research by Bloomberg News, even the most accurate AI systems tested with questions about the world’s elections still got one in five wrong answers. Currently, one of the biggest concerns is that deepfake-focused AI could be used to manipulate election results.
AI and plane crashes
In at least two cases, AI appears to have played a role in crashes involving Boeing aircraft. According to a 2019 New York Times investigation, an automated system was designed to be more robust and riskier, including eliminating possible safety measures. AI errors have led to the deaths of more than 300 people.
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