Internet According to the people who helped create the Internet, there are different types Risks are faced with threats that can put both the technology and the people using it at risk.
Vint Cerf, one of the ‘founders of the Internet’, warned that we are increasingly dependent on a technology that is more fragile than we think and that we could be entering a ‘digital dark age’, which will give us access to our history. will make it impossible to obtain.
The web is also becoming an increasingly central part of our lives, he warned, but that means ‘when it doesn’t work as intended or when malicious people use it, there are consequences.’
He warned that as the Internet became almost ubiquitous, people could use it for malicious purposes, such as ransomware.
“The consequences of the increased availability of the Internet are that it has become accessible to the general public, which was not the case in the beginning, and the consequences are that parts of the general public are not necessarily well-intentioned,” he said. So their access to technology is in many ways very constructive but also very destructive.’
He also warned that ‘there is a lot of concern about the reliability and resilience of the technology we are increasingly relying on’ and that we are giving software increasing autonomy to control our Take actions from the side that we may not understand.
For example we rely heavily on our mobiles, because of their ‘convenience and utility’. But when they break down, there may be ‘no substitute’ to use, leaving us at the mercy of extremely vulnerable systems.
He also suggested that the weakness remains in the future. None of the digital media we have today is anything like the paper we used to use and so we are no longer able to access the files that help us understand our history. help
“I’m starting to wonder what kind of ecosystem we’re going to have to build that will convince everyone that digital content has some serious longevity,” he said.
He pointed to the fact that he had recently found some floppy disks containing files created only a few decades ago that could no longer be read. “It’s embarrassing to think that tablets made of baked clay five or six thousand years ago are still legible,” he said.
Addressing these issues, he said, would mean “rethinking our entire ecosystem,” including new legal frameworks and international agreements, as well as technology so that we rely on our digital environment. can
This could mean, for example, writing a new ‘digital social contract’ requiring people to be more responsible for how they interact with the online world.
We must work to ‘improve people’s awareness’ about using technology safely and empower them to use more resources to protect themselves, he said. “We need to be more critical and willing to think critically, especially about the information we receive,” he says, a problem compounded by the widespread availability of large models of languages. has gone
But he said he is not as concerned about the power of artificial intelligence as some other technologists. Although computing has created ‘amazing’ new capabilities, much of the fear of artificial intelligence ‘is the result of believing it to be more powerful than it actually is’, in part because artificial intelligence was trained based on human writing. And often they seem to talk the way we do.
Surf was speaking at an event organized by the Royal Society and other organizations to mark 50 years of the Internet. He said that in the early days of the Internet, there was often speculation as to whether or not the system would be abused.
“When we started doing this, we were just a bunch of engineers, and we just wanted to do something that could work on that scope and scale,” he said.
‘And I don’t think we were thinking too much about how people can abuse the system even if their intention is to help you.’
He said that there is a lot of concern about security. For example, encrypting web traffic so that it cannot be intercepted while using the Internet. But there was less concern about safety, he said. So little thought was given to the fact that the traffic might contain malware that would attack the computer it was sent to.
He said: ‘So I think we need to rethink the ecosystem we’re creating. These are not imaginary objects, but real-world consequences.’
‘It is a place with a competitive atmosphere in the geographical and political sense. Where our concerns about national and personal security in the online environment are real.
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‘And we can assure you at the outset that it was not at the top of the list. It was just trying to understand what happens when each computer talks to each other.’
Wendy Hall, a British computer scientist at the University of Southampton who helped build some of the fundamental systems of the web, told The Independent during the same event that she was optimistic about the future of the internet.
“The Internet, that infrastructure of how one computer would talk to another, has been around for 50 years,” he said. And it has persisted through the ages even in covid.’
‘In 2020 we all used it a lot and it continued to exist and establish. And imagine what Covid would be like without the internet or the web.’
But he agreed, pointing to the importance of learning lessons from the history of the early Internet and the Web that artificial intelligence could eventually become a problem. In addition to her other work, Dame Wendy also serves on the United Nations Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, which aims to encourage international governance to address these threats.
“Artificial intelligence is potentially more dangerous than the web itself,” he said. I am not one to say that we are going to face a real threat in the next year or so. But if we let artificial intelligence get out of hand, it will be used by people with nefarious intentions.’
“If we let artificial intelligence get out of hand, there are tasks we cannot stop, whatever their nature. We have a problem.’
He pointed to the importance of ensuring that technology is useful for everyone, but also to ensure that technology is available to people in the global south as well as rich countries, and to empower people with artificial intelligence. Be protected from the elements.
He pointed to more threats that the defense and security sector needs to address to ‘protect us from potential AI wars in the future.’
However, Dame Wendy said she was optimistic about the “powerful things” that artificial intelligence could do, including “what it could do for us in health education, energy supply, food security” and others.
How will it be helpful in the fields? He also said that he hoped that the world would come together for good governance but that this important work still needed to be done.
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2024-07-23 02:17:58