WEBVTT - Scaling Misinformation With AI 0:00:21.723 --> 0:00:27.183 Russia is using AI enhanced software called Meliorator to create 0:00:27.183 --> 0:00:33.243 fake online personas for disinformation campaigns. I love this because 0:00:33.243 --> 0:00:35.013 the better this gets, the more it's going to look 0:00:35.013 --> 0:00:38.073 like a real human. And then if the AI starts 0:00:38.073 --> 0:00:41.253 acting like a human with like clicking on things, uh, 0:00:41.253 --> 0:00:43.233 being able to tell the difference is going to get 0:00:43.233 --> 0:00:46.113 a whole lot more difficult. And this is actually one 0:00:46.113 --> 0:00:47.943 of the things I'm most worried about from AI is 0:00:47.943 --> 0:00:51.483 disinformation bots, not just the sheer number of them, but 0:00:51.503 --> 0:00:56.483 also their how advanced they are, how sophisticated they are. Basically, 0:00:56.483 --> 0:00:59.933 the better AI gets, and especially from agent frameworks, the 0:00:59.933 --> 0:01:05.093 more it's going to be exactly the same, or almost 0:01:05.093 --> 0:01:10.583 exactly the same, as if our enemies have millions of 0:01:10.583 --> 0:01:16.013 employees in their intelligence agencies. Okay, let me say that again. 0:01:16.013 --> 0:01:19.283 That was that was too convoluted. One of the things 0:01:19.283 --> 0:01:23.123 I'm most worried about is that the better AI gets, 0:01:23.303 --> 0:01:31.823 it'll be like our foreign intelligence agencies for our enemies. China, Russia, Iran, 0:01:31.823 --> 0:01:36.713 North Korea. Instead of having a few hundred elite people, 0:01:37.613 --> 0:01:41.153 they're going to have a few hundred elite people and 0:01:41.153 --> 0:01:46.173 40,000 right below them, elite people. And then the better 0:01:46.173 --> 0:01:50.133 the AI gets, those move up into the elite, and 0:01:50.133 --> 0:01:53.643 then the elite humans become augmented with that AI and 0:01:53.643 --> 0:01:57.213 they become like super elite. And the better the AI gets, 0:01:57.213 --> 0:01:59.913 I mean, it just keeps moving up that chain. So 0:01:59.913 --> 0:02:04.443 if you think it's bad to have ten, 50, 100 0:02:04.443 --> 0:02:10.213 elite people in these different countries who are both Intel 0:02:10.213 --> 0:02:14.593 trained and manipulation trained, but they're also like super hackers 0:02:15.163 --> 0:02:18.913 and they're good at all these different skills. But there's 0:02:18.913 --> 0:02:22.363 I mean, there's only so many in the world. Well, 0:02:22.363 --> 0:02:28.303 now imagine them with a thousand of them, 10,000 of them, 100,000, 0:02:28.303 --> 0:02:33.613 100 million. And they're working consistently with no sleep to 0:02:33.613 --> 0:02:38.303 go after all your targets. That that's what I'm personally 0:02:38.303 --> 0:02:43.073 worried about right now. And if they are producing content 0:02:43.073 --> 0:02:46.973 and the content is all manipulative, the internet is going 0:02:46.973 --> 0:02:50.183 to have to switch from blocklist to an allow list. 0:02:51.533 --> 0:02:55.853 I mean, think about that. The internet currently is an 0:02:55.853 --> 0:03:02.123 allow list. I'm sorry, it's a block list. Everything is available, 0:03:02.123 --> 0:03:04.523 and you have to specifically go into a place and say, 0:03:04.523 --> 0:03:06.083 I don't want to see this. I don't want to 0:03:06.083 --> 0:03:09.053 see this. I don't want to see this because of 0:03:09.053 --> 0:03:12.203 this problem right here that I'm talking about. We're going 0:03:12.203 --> 0:03:14.213 to have to switch. We're going to have to switch 0:03:14.213 --> 0:03:19.673 to the other method, which is to say my I, 0:03:19.703 --> 0:03:28.503 my internet platform, my mobile OS, okay, Android, Mac macOS, iOS. 0:03:28.623 --> 0:03:31.443 They're not going to allow anything in unless you have 0:03:31.443 --> 0:03:34.593 the green checkmark. What is a green checkmark? Green checkmark 0:03:34.593 --> 0:03:38.643 is an agreement between the the tech platform, the mobile platform, 0:03:38.643 --> 0:03:44.283 the OS, and trusted providers like a YouTube, which has 0:03:44.283 --> 0:03:50.073 approved sources from approved individuals and approved organizations. So your 0:03:50.073 --> 0:03:51.933 news is going to have to come that way because 0:03:51.933 --> 0:03:53.923 it's going to have to be vetted. So it gets 0:03:53.923 --> 0:03:57.643 the green check mark. This might be something that's required. 0:03:57.643 --> 0:03:59.473 It's going to happen anyway, but it might be something 0:03:59.473 --> 0:04:04.183 that's required within settings and within operating systems, because it's 0:04:04.183 --> 0:04:06.943 simply too hard to drown out everything. Because this problem 0:04:06.943 --> 0:04:12.913 right here, the amount of disinformation bots, pretty soon it's 0:04:12.913 --> 0:04:17.803 going to be like, whatever, 50% of all content is 0:04:17.803 --> 0:04:19.953 going to going to be manipulation, then it's going to 0:04:19.953 --> 0:04:24.123 be like 75%, then it's going to be 95%. So 0:04:24.813 --> 0:04:27.633 if you are naive and you just walk onto the internet, 0:04:27.633 --> 0:04:30.633 especially as like a regular person or like a grandma 0:04:30.633 --> 0:04:33.903 or something, you're going to be screwed. You're going to 0:04:33.903 --> 0:04:36.063 be just like pulled around, like all your money will 0:04:36.063 --> 0:04:39.213 disappear because you had to save your kids from some 0:04:39.213 --> 0:04:41.673 horrible accident. And all of a sudden there was an 0:04:41.673 --> 0:04:45.123 asteroid that hit the thing and aliens came. And pretty 0:04:45.123 --> 0:04:47.253 soon you're in a bunker and you have no money, 0:04:47.253 --> 0:04:50.763 and it's like none of it was real. The amount 0:04:50.763 --> 0:04:55.713 of and quality of manipulation. Think about that as well. 0:04:55.713 --> 0:04:59.703 The quality of the pitches and the manipulation and the 0:04:59.703 --> 0:05:03.633 deepfakes and the trickery is going to get so good. 0:05:03.633 --> 0:05:06.873 It's going to trick us too. It's going to trick experts, 0:05:06.873 --> 0:05:09.783 not just regular people.