Some forms of technology are highly regulated because people can do really stupid, reckless and dangerous things. Home chemistry kits today are quite unlike th

Some forms of technology are highly regulated because people can do really stupid, reckless and dangerous things. Home chemistry kits today are quite unlike those produced 100 years ago, which had ingredients for making gunpowder and other explosives, as well as highly toxic compounds like cyanide, and less dangerous but problematic things like metallic mercury. Similarly, biotech is now regulated and monitored because modern tools allow people with relatively minimal resources to do things like re-assemble smallpox using nothing but the sequence data: https://www.livescience.com/59809-horsepox-virus-recreated.html https://www.livescience.com/59809-horsepox-virus-recreated.h... As far as AI, maybe the immediate risks aren't quite so dramatic but it's going to create a real lack-of-trust problem with images, video and data in general. Manipulated still photographs are already very difficult if impossible to detect and there's an ongoing controversy over whether they are admissible in court. AI modification of video is steadily getting harder to identify, and there are already good reasons to suspect the veracity of video clips put out by nation-states as evidence for their claims (who likely already have unrestricted access to the necessary technology - for example, Iran recently released a suspicious 'accidental death' video of a woman arrested for not covering her head, which could be a complete fabrication). Similarly, AI opens the door to massive undetectable research fraud. Many such incidents in the past have been detected as duplicated data or copied images, but training an AI on similar datasets and images to create original frauds would change all that. A more alarming application is the construction of AI-integrated drones capable of assassinating human beings with zero operator oversight, just load the drone with a search image and facial recognition software, and then launch-and-forget, which doesn't sound like that good of an idea. Basically Ray Bradbury's Mechanical Hound in Farenheit 451, only airborne.