Fear of AI could pose the biggest cyber risk of all

Quick, think of a scary technology – one with the potential to enslave humankind or destroy the earth. Did you think of AI? Few other technologies generate the fear factor of artificial intelligence. Ever since Alan Turing introduced the idea in 1948, people have wondered what would happen if machines outsmarted their creators and took charge of the planet. Legal protections could avert such a calamity, and the first AI regulations have been published and are awaiting public comment. But some of these draft rules set impossibly high standards.