McAfee: Keep an eye on the humans pulling the levers, not the AIs

Security firm McAfee has warned that it's more likely humans will use AI for malicious purposes rather than it going rogue itself. It's become a cliché metaphor, but people are still concerned a self-thinking killer AI like SkyNet from the film Terminator will be created. McAfee CTO Steve Grobman spoke at this year's RSA conference in San Francisco and warned the wrong humans in control of powerful AIs are his company's primary concern. To provide an example of how AIs could be used for good or bad purposes, Grobman handed over to McAfee Chief Data Scientist Dr Celeste Fralick. Fralick explained how McAfee has attempted to predict crime in San Francisco using historic data combined with a machine learning model.