Here’s why legendary developer claims that artificial intelligence might threaten society
David Schwartz began to “worry” about the development of AI, given the potential of deepfakes and their impact on social, economic and political processes.
Ripple CTO: AI will be able to broadcast terrorist attacks that never happened
The chief technology officer and one of the architects of XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) technical design has taken to Twitter to share his concerns about artificial intelligence technology (AI).
He insisted that AI development never seemed dangerous to him. But recently they started worrying about deepfake streams as one of the most influential implementations of the AI concept. According to him, in 20 years, $1 million in funding will be enough to launch “dozens” of video streams from events that aren’t actually happening.
Each of these streams will be “interactive” and sufficient to create a ton of evidence of totally fake events of public importance. For instance, the world might be watching deepfake videos about terrorist attacks.
Eventually, technologies may be capable of corrupting undisputed political facts; Therefore, the use of AI can make the situation much worse than it is nowadays.
Crypto is a hotbed of deepfakes
Mr. Schwartz is also concerned about the role of CBDCs in cryptocurrency’s progress and the economic development of modern societies. As covered by U.Today previously, Ripple is involved in numerous CBDC initiatives across the globe.
In Web3, millions of dollars have already been lost as a result of deepfake operations. In 2020, Malefactors used an AI-generated avatar of Justin Sun to impersonate the founder of Tron (TRX) and steal investors’ money.
Deepfakes of Elon Musk, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao and Vitalik Buterin are the three most popular instruments for TikTok, YouTube and Instagram crypto scams.
