Elon Musk: An AI Attack on the Internet is "Only a Matter of Time"

The technology we've developed to improve human lives may be turning into a massive weapon. Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO, on a short exchange in Twitter called artificial intelligence a great threat to the internet, and it's only about time that we see a massive AI attack on internet infrastructure. Musk's tweets came in the backlash of an extensive Disributed Denial of Service (DDoS) hack attack last October 21 that left hundreds of sites including Netflix, PayPal, Spotify, and Twitter offline and unreachable for hours. DDoS attacks work by using a "botnet", or a linkage of computers that perform coordinated functions. Last months' DDoS attacks targeted Dyn, a Domain Name Server (DNS) that maintains the directory of websites' domain names and IP addresses, and is integral to keeping the sites up and running.