Top 5 Misuses of AI and their Consequences

The emergence of AI has offered great boom for enterprises all across the world. Advancements in technologies like AI, machine learning, and several others have found widespread acceptance in enterprises for managing their operations and processes. However, AI is misused by several organizations and its consequences are devastating. In this article, we have enlisted the top misuses of AI and the consequences that we face in 2022.

Deepfakes:

The most recent instance of AI-generated deepfakes being exploited to create compromising photographs of unknowing women is the DeepNude nudie app, which just went viral. Women can be humiliated, harassed, intimidated, and silenced with these photos.

"Denial of Service" (DoS) Attacks:  

These are nothing new, but they are getting more and more complex. AI-driven DoS assaults with human-like characteristics are challenging to stop. A DoS attack is a form of cyber-attack where a cybercriminal prevents legitimate users of a networked system/service/website/application from using it.

Spear phishing attacks:

An important cybersecurity concern is posed by spear-phishing assaults using AI. AI can produce context-specific emails for spear-phishing attacks thanks to ML algorithms that identify patterns in datasets

Terrorist attacks:

Since many AI capabilities are open-source libraries, anyone can easily access them. As a result, image recognition, facial recognition, etc. technologies could easily reach a dreaded terrorist group, which can launch a terror attack relatively easily.

Swarm attacks:

This kind of attacks utilise a technology called "Swarm intelligence", which involves swarm-based bots. Cybercriminals will replace botnets with "Hivenets", i.e., clusters of compromised devices that use AI.