In recent years we have seen a surge in the way companies have leveraged technology to drive new revenue streams and create a unique competitive advantage in the marketplace. The companies that have been the most successful are the ones using Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is already being used by hundreds of companies all over the world. We have seen retailers being able to predict what their customers will order based on their previous order history, car manufactures using vehicle data to provide a better driving experience and even locally in Australia we have seen Domino's using AI to help grow their sales and store numbers. But what does this have to do with cybersecurity…….? Whether you are an organisation not yet using AI, or you are already experimenting with it, is important to protect the intellectual property that provides your organisation with the competitive edge.

Elon Musk has said again that artificial intelligence could be humanity's greatest existential threat, this time by starting a third world war. The prospect clearly weighs heavily on Musk's mind, since the SpaceX, Tesla and Boring Company chief tweeted at 2.33am Los Angeles time about how AI could led to the end of the world – without the need for the singularity. His fears were prompted by a statement from Vladimir Putin that "artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind … It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world." Hashing out his thoughts in public, Musk clarified that he was not just concerned about the prospect of a world leader starting the war, but also of an overcautious AI deciding "that a [pre-emptive] strike is [the] most probable path to victory".

The Tesla founder spoke about his fears after Vladimir Putin claimed that the nation which controls artificial intelligence will come to rule the world. On Twitter, Musk wrote: "China, Russia -- soon all countries with strong computer science. The development of killer computers would give any nation a clear edge over its competitors. Artificial intelligence could be used to command fleets of drones or battalions of killer robots, while responding to threats at speeds much faster than any human could manage, The Sun reports. The race to develop artificial intelligence could spark World War Three, according to Elon Musk. But there's a risk that a super-smart AI could go rogue and launch genocidal attacks without being constrained by human conscience and empathy. Musk said that it may actually be the AI itself that launches the next World War. He added: "[WW3] May be initiated not by the country leaders, but one of the AI's, if it decides that a pre-emptive strike is most probable path to victory." Nick Bostrom, head of the University of Oxford's Future Of Humanity Institute, recently claimed that we may have just 50 years to save ourselves from artificial intelligence. Competition to build a machine that's as clever as humans will be fierce in the coming decades, with considerable rewards on offer for the nation which manages to pull off the historical feat of achieving "machine intelligence". But the scrabble to create this silicon-powered mind could lead to mistakes with disastrous consequences, according to The Sun. "There is a control problem," Bostrom said. Killer robots, or lethal autonomous weapons, should be banned because of the potential scale of destruction and ability to be hacked, industry leaders say. "If you have a very tight tech race to get there first, whoever invests in safety could lose the race.

Security guard Eric Leon watches the Knightscope K5 security robot as it glides through the mall, charming shoppers with its blinking blue and white lights. The brawny automaton records video and sounds alerts. According to its maker, it deters mischief just by making the rounds. Leon, the all-too-human guard, feels pretty sure that the robot will someday take his job. Pictured, Sophie Li, of Cupertino, Calif., offers to dance with a K5 robot made by Knightscope, Inc., at Westfield Valley Fair shopping center in San Jose'He doesn't complain,' Leon says. But the K5 is only one of a growing menagerie of automated novelties in a region where you can eat a delivered pizza made via automation and drink beers at a bar served by an airborne robot.

Elon Musk has warned that competition for superiority in the world of artificial intelligence could trigger World War III. His tweet followed a statement from Russian President Vladimir Putin that "artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind … It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world." Musk said he was less concerned about the threat of a nuclear missile strike from North Korea, and said any such action would be "suicide". Musk has long since been a vocal opponent of lethal autonomous weapons.

Forget the arms race or space race -- the new battle for technological dominance revolves around AI, according to Vladimir Putin. The Russian President told students at a career guidance forum that the "future belongs to artificial intelligence," and whoever is first to dominate this category will be the "ruler of the world." In other words, Russia fully intends to be a frontrunner in the AI space. Putin maintains that he doesn't want to see anyone "monopolize" the field, and that Russia would share its knowledge with the "entire world" in the same way it shares its nuclear tech. We'd take this claim with a grain of salt (we wouldn't be surprised if Russia held security-related AI secrets close to the vest), but this does suggest that the country might share some of what it learns.

Which naturally leads to: whose ethical and social values? What biases do we build in – intentionally or otherwise – that will affect the output? Each individual, socio-cultural group, and national geography can have different attitudes to ethics, morality and legality. This is further complicated by the choice of data used to train AI systems. Even the best-laid intentions can go awry if the data itself breaks our ethical standards.

Self driving cars are only the beginning. Within a couple decades, most anything with wheels, wings, or rotors will be able to operate, not just on its own, but in concert with hundreds or thousands of similarly self-guided vehicles around it. This won't just revolutionize how current transportation systems operate, it will open up entirely new roles for unmanned vehicles -- especially aircraft. In fact, the roles of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in military applications is continually evolving. Originally developed just after WWII as self-flying targets, UAVs today perform a variety of roles, from intelligence gathering and reconnaissance to strike missions.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has joined the war of words concerning the international race to develop artificial intelligence. Speaking to students last Friday, Putin predicted that whichever country leads the way in AI research will come to dominate global affairs. "Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind," said Putin, reports RT. "It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world."

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Friday (Sept. AI development "raises colossal opportunities and threats that are difficult to predict now," Putin said in a lecture to students, warning that "it would be strongly undesirable if someone wins a monopolist position." Future wars will be fought by autonomous drones, Putin suggested, and "when one party's drones are destroyed by drones of another, it will have no other choice but to surrender." U.N. urged to address lethal autonomous weapons AI experts worldwide are also concerned. On August 20, 116 founders of robotics and artificial intelligence companies from 26 countries, including Elon Musk and Google DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman, signed an open letter asking the United Nations to "urgently address the challenge of lethal autonomous weapons (often called'killer robots') and ban their use internationally."