Researchers have found that robots could be the offenders committing most crimes by 2040. Tracey Follows from The Future Laboratory, which helps businesses plan for the future through its research and consultancy experts, has been looking at the issues after more and more robots could be used in industries replacing humans on jobs.
Tracey, chief strategy and innovation officer at The Future Laboratory, says “Futurists have been forecasting a sharp rise in lone-wolf terror attacks for years. But once robots can be hacked to become suicide-bombing machines, lone-robot attacks could become rife too.”
Tracey, who has worked in telecoms technology, retail and media, and has helped to shape the future strategies of brands such as T-Mobile, BT, O2, EasyJet and John Lewis, also feels that that artificial intelligence and machine-learning could enable robots to self-programme criminal activity.
“My forecast would be that by 2040 more crime will be committed by machines than by humans,” she commented. But it’s not just robots experts are worrying about, rogue driverless cars and drones could also be a problem if they are able to be hacked or re-programed.
Raj Samani, chief technology officer, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), at Intel Security, works with the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Europol European Cybercrime Centre as an adviser, says “It’s only a matter of time before we see instances of people left helpless, unable to drive their cars unless they pay up a ransom.”
According to NCA cyber-crime is on the increase and accounted for 53 per cent of all crimes in 2015 as stated in its 2016 report.
In Belgium recently officials and representatives from all the NATO member states met to discuss how to defend better against cyber attacks and hackers that could cause as much harm as conventional military attacks.
On Tuesday, USA President Barak Obama was seen talking with Vladimir Putin of Russia after there were cyber-attacks on America by the country and that there needed to be rules to regulate how countries use the internet — but would rules also need to be used on all citizens who could continue to develop ways to hack private systems. Could the Robot attacks on people become a future reality?
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
