10 Harrowing Examples from a New Report on How Artificial Intelligence Will Take Over the World

A new report details a dystopian future for humans, as we have created a technology that will soon create an unreality that will be difficult for our cognitive abilities to discern from reality. Titled "The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation," the report was authored by 26 experts from 14 institutions, including Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, Cambridge University's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Elon Musk's OpenAI, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They only looked at the near-future. This isn't some Jetsons-style society that our grandchildren will have to deal with, but an evolving threat that everyone will soon be fighting back against. For the purposes of this report, we only consider AI technologies that are currently available (at least as initial research and development demonstrations) or are plausible in the next 5 years, and focus in particular on technologies leveraging machine learning.