• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Oh, AI is running your water treatment plant? Or a chemical plant on the outskirts of the city? Or the nuclear plant?

    Good luck with that.

    • derpgon@programming.dev
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      11 months ago

      Whatever a virus is able to do, AI can, theoretically, perform aswell. Ransomware, keylogging, social engineering (I’d argue this one is most likely - just look at people trusting whatever AI spits out with absolute confidence).

      When you mentioned nuclear power plants, Stuxnet comes to mind for me.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I don’t even think it would have to go that far. Just corrupt my laptop and the 20 or so guys like me across the industrial world. Put a logic bomb to go off in say 10 years. All those plants getting updated and maintained. 10 years from now every PLC fires itself. I could write the code in under an hour to make a PLC physically destroy itself on a certain date.