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Researchers at Brown University easily hacked into a robot “Herb2” of the University of Washington that was at this time on the other end of the country. This was done to demonstrate that the creators of robots today do not take into account the main thing: to crack any AI is easy.
The fact is that modern robots are created on the basis of ROS operating system, utilities and open source libraries that makes it easier to work with them, but in this case it’s completely no security features. Using the ZMap Utility Brown University programmers easily discovered about a hundred US robots connected to the Network, also easily screening emulators from bots with equipment.
Brownian hacked robot “Herb2” with the permission of its owners just for example, thereby showing how vulnerable modern AI for hackers. Here’s what a specialist in Computer Science George Clark:
Today no one really thinks about this problem, for some reason reasoning more about the danger artificial intelligence. In pursuit of the next release robotic news and its promotion in the market, questions the safety of the operation of such machines is always delayed for later”. But in vain … After all, we are moving towards the fact that soon robots will play a significant role in the life of modern society. And who in this case, it will become the puppeteer of this entire army of artificial helpers – hackers? After all, when such a problem arises from all its sharpness, it will still need to be decided, only do it will have to significantly more effort and finance than now. You just need to urgently stop releasing robots, almost unprotected from hacker attacks …
Indeed, just think about what is currently in robots are increasingly being introduced to medicine (watch a video about this), independently performing complex operations – on the heart, eyes and etc. And at the same time, any hacker can without any problems reprogram such a “doctor”, or even just knock him out operation time. And such examples, in fact, are simply terrible in terms of rototechnics, now you can bring hundreds. And what will happen to us tomorrow with such negligence in the matter of safety of use AI? ..
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