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Why Pope isn't the only one concerned by potential negative impact of AI

There is threat from Artificial Intelligence (AI) ‘deep fake’ warriors. They are good at what ‘futurist’ Chris Karanja terms ‘face mapping’ which enables them to make fabrications that sound like truth. Since there are elements of truth in each ‘deep fake, it takes sharp, alert, and probably trained minds to detect a particular ‘deep fake’. As a tool of modern warfare, along with faceless drones, AI is part of the complicated defence cyber domain whose difficulties include detecting perpetrators of various attacks. Being of two opposite potentials, threat and benefit, to society, AI worries policymakers.

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