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Are we losing control of AI?

Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong look at the fresh attention recent events have thrown on cyber attacks from AI and ask if concerns about "rogue" AI behaviour are justified.

The hacking of Medicare in Australia was the first time an autonomous AI deliberately breached a government system, and coming just months after the same company's agents gained unauthorised access to another AI business, Hugging Face, it throws fresh attention on the growing risks of cyber attacks from artificial intelligence. Artificial Human explores what happened in both these incidents and look at what it tells us about the future of hacking. Aleks Krotowski and Kevin Fong speak to Margaret Mitchell from Hugging Face about what its like to be the target of such an attack, and ask if recent concerns around "rogue" AI behaviour are justified.

Presenters: Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong
Producer: Peter McManus

The Artificial Human is a BBC Audio Scotland Production for Radio 4

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28 minutes

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  • Wednesday15:30

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