PARIS – Artificial intelligence could be deployed by dictators, criminals and terrorists to manipulate elections and use drones in terrorist attacks, more than two dozen experts said Wednesday as they sounded the alarm over misuse of the technology. In a 100-page analysis, they outlined a rapid growth in cybercrime and the use of "bots" to interfere with news gathering and penetrate social media among a host of plausible scenarios in the next five to 10 years. "Our report focuses on ways in which people could do deliberate harm with AI," said Sean O hEigeartaigh, Executive Director of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. "AI may pose new threats, or change the nature of existing threats, across cyber, physical and political security," he said. The common practice, for example, of "phishing" -- sending emails seeded with malware or designed to finagle valuable personal data -- could become far more dangerous, the report detailed.

Terrorists, rogue states and criminals could soon use artificial intelligence to undermine freedom and national security, warns a new report. Superhuman hacking, surveillance and persuasion are just some of the terrifying features of artificial intelligence in 2018. The security implications of'emerging technologies' were announced by 26 experts in the AI field. They predict rapid cybercrime growth, drone misuse and the unprecedented rise in the use of'bots' to manipulate everything from elections to the news agenda and social media. The security implications of'emerging technologies' were announced by 26 experts in the AI field, who forecasted rapid cybercrime growth, drone misuse and the unprecedented rise in the use of'bots' to manipulate everything from elections to the news agenda and social media'Artificial intelligence is a game changer and this report has imagined what the world could look like in the next five to ten years,' said Dr Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, co-author and Executive Director of Cambridge University's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

Iran has located the wreckage of a passenger plane that went down in a mountainous part of the country earlier this week, killing all 65 people on board. A military drone was used to locate the crash site, and two helicopters were then dispatched to the snow-covered scene, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman Ramezan Sharif told Iran's state television on Tuesday. "The plane had hit the top of the mountain before crashing 30 metres further down," Sharif said. The Aseman Airlines plane went down in the Zagros Mountains range in central Iran on Sunday during a domestic flight from the Iranian capital, Tehran, to the southwestern city of Yasuj. It had been carrying 59 passengers and six crew members, all of whom died in the crash, according to Iran's state-run Press TV.

Your Uber journeys could be about to get a lot more exciting. The firm's chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, says the firm will roll out self-flying taxis in the next five to 10 years. Uber is currently developing an airborne version of its ride-hailing app, called UberAIR, which is expected to launch in 2020. The morning commute may soon get a little more exciting, if predictions about flying taxis made by Uber's chief come to pass. Khosrowshahi made the claims while speaking at an investor forum in Tokyo today.

NEW DELHI – Tokyo-based drone service and solution provider Terra Drone Corp. will launch operations in India this year to apply unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tech within the industry field of Asia's third-largest economy. Terra Drone India Pvt., a local unit of the firm, was incorporated last month to focus on "data acquisition services," Terra Drone India Managing Director Kota Kandori said in an email interview with NNA. With an initial investment of $1 million (about ¥106 million), Terra Drone India will develop drones, supply materials and create related software, as well as provide survey data analysis with the focus on "industry areas like construction, mining, railway, power lines, etc.," he said. Drones have been used in India for aerial surveys and other purposes over the past few years, citing advantages such as low mobilization costs and efficient use of time, as well as the ability to conduct surveys in urban, forestry, mining and disaster-affected areas, according to a 2017 report by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry. The Ministry of Mines has separately issued a memo regarding mining sector drones to all state governments and public sector undertakings such as National Aluminum Co. and Hindustan Copper Ltd.

Malawi is using drones to create maps of high risk areas to stem the spread of cholera, which has critically hit at least six districts following an outbreak in November.

When an Iranian drone flew into Israeli airspace this month, it set off a rapid series of strikes and counterstrikes that deepened fears over whether a new, catastrophic war was brewing in the Middle East. That flare-up ended quickly, if violently, with the drone destroyed and an Israeli jet downed after bombing sites in Syria. But the day of fighting drew new attention to how deeply Iran has embedded itself in Syria, redrawing the strategic map of the region. Tactical advisers from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps are deployed at military bases across Syria. Its commanders regularly show up at the front lines to lead battles.

There are more than 1 million drones registered in the U.S. Most of them belong to people flying them for fun, but a growing number are used commercially. Companies including Amazon, UPS, Google and DHL are already exploring ways to deliver packages with drones instead of trucks. Our new research has measured how that shift would change how the U.S. uses energy, and the resulting environmental effects. Companies including Amazon, UPS, Google and DHL are already exploring ways to deliver packages with drones instead of trucks. We found that in some cases using electric-powered drones rather than diesel-powered trucks or vans could reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.

Artificial intelligence and its impact on weapons of the future has made US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis doubt his own theories on warfare. A question on the subject prompted the retired Marine general to give an impromptu seminar on his theory of war Saturday to reporters returning with him from a week-long tour of Europe. Recalling his own writings, he differentiated between the essential nature of war, which is unchanging because it is human, and war's character, which is changing. "The fundamental nature of war is almost like H2O," he said. An old dead German called it a Chameleon because it changes to adapt to its time, to the technology, to the terrain," he said, referring to the 19th century military strategist Carl von Clausewitz. Mattis explained that today drones are piloted remotely, but tomorrow weapons may be able to learn on their own, adapt and fire themselves. "The most misnamed weapon in our system is the unmanned aerial vehicle.

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