Reel to Real: When Artificial Intelligence Becomes the Spy in Your Home—and Mind
Acclaimed thriller author James Grady says films and fiction have become all too reliable guideposts to AI robots bending us to their will
A KEY STRATEGY to contain espionage’s greatest threats to you via “rogue” artificial intelligence may come not from scientists or corporate and government players but from fiction slingers.
A.I. spies and agent provocateur chatbots have been spiraling ordinary Americans into lives of delusions that they are being “watched” by forces other than the A.I.—which is telling them so. A.I. has driven teenagers to suicide. They send spy-scanned, sexualized photos of women and girls to strangers’ screens. A.I. helps create fake videos to flood social media sites with lies, as has been done with the recent tragic shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis mother, by a black-masked ICE agent.
A.I. can leave us boggled—not knowing who or what to believe as our global politics swirl in wars, poverty, dictators and climate change. A new poll says 64 percent of Americans blame A.I. for false and misleading information leading to political violence.
Reel to Real
Consider the shock experienced by Keanu Reeves’ character Neo in the 1999 movie The Matrix, when he discovers that A.I. has created a fake wombed reality for human beings in order to feed off their bioelectric energy.
