This week we’re bringing you three of our readers favorite articles. Released on a monthly basis, our Essentials AI Monthly Report showcases the content that our readers loved the most in the realm of artificial intelligence—from industry experts to trending topics and innovative articles. Our top 3 picks for this month surround the growing concern with artificial intelligence’s more sinister nature. Care to explore the murky depths of what’s lurking behind artificial intelligence’s cheerful exterior? We’ll guide you all the way through.

According to artificial intelligence, women don’t like wearing clothes.

Garbage in, garbage out—right? Well given the mass amounts of nude or partially women on the internet, artificial intelligence now believes most women prefer to go without clothes…

In a new study on image-generation algorithms, when a picture of a man cropped below his neck was uploaded, in 43% of the cases the image was autocompleted with him wearing a suit. In contrast, when the image was of a woman, 53% of the time it was auto-completed with a low-cut top or bikini. Even an image of Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was auto-completed in a bikini.

This study should be a reminder of the clear bias present in artificial intelligence. Since artificial intelligence learns behaviors, it realized what a typical woman looked like by analyzing mass amounts of data, and concluded women are naked more often than clothed. With the rise of deep fake porn, this is really just the beginning. If things don’t change soon, the internet will become a nightmarish place for women.

Artificial intelligence can now control our decisions too.

Artificial intelligence is supposed to make our jobs as humans easier, right? What if I were to tell you that artificial intelligence can be taught to identify our weaknesses in order to influence our decisions? Terminator is that you?

Read the full article here.

While no one is questioning the clear, proven benefits of artificial intelligence, due to its growing power by the day, it’s time we started questioning the possibilities of its misuse. If further regulations are not established, we as a society have reason to worry. Recently a group of researchers at Australia's CSIRO’s Data61, created a method for artificial intelligence to not only find but exploit human vulnerabilities when it came to how humans made choices. In the experiment, artificial intelligence learned the participant’s patterns in decision making and then guiding them towards a specific choice--artificial intelligence succeeded in 70% of the cases. In another experiment, artificial intelligence once again learned participant patterns and then changed sequences to encourage them to make more mistakes, and succeeded in increasing the number of mistakes by 25%.

While this experiment was developed to use artificial intelligence to encourage humans to make bad decisions, this technology could be put to good use to help humans steer clear of bad decisions by recognizing their own vulnerabilities and preventing them from falling into scams. Essentially, artificial intelligence can learn to see patterns in people’s behaviors and with this knowledge, guide them towards a decision they wanted them to make. artificial intelligence can be used for good or for bad, it’s just up to us humans which direction we want to take it. While this experiment was still innocent, if this technology got into the wrong hands (or the hands of marketing agencies) our world could quickly become a very dangerous place. Experiments like this should warn us about the very real dangers artificial intelligence poses if left unregulated.

Artificial Iintelligence now has the power to infiltrate our minds.

In many ways artificial intelligence has infiltrated our world—for both good and bad. Artificial intelligence has now taken away something none of us expected: the privacy of our inner thoughts. I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether that’s a good or bad development.

Read the full article here.

In a recent study by the Queen Mary University in London, a person's subtle behaviors can be analyzed by artificial intelligence to determine emotions they are feeling like sadness, anger or joy. On the positive side, this technology can help those who are struggling to admit to depressive thoughts get the help they need. These technologies could also be used by offices to determine how new policies are being viewed, or by the police to predict mob violence. I think I don’t have to explain how this technology could quickly be used against us rather than for us.

Kyoto University in Japan developed a similar method to see inside an individual’s mind, by using an fMRI scanner. Through changes in blood flow to the brain, they could reconstruct an image of what the individual was thinking about. Can we just take a minute to acknowledge how unbelievable this is? Not only that, but it’s estimated that this technology could become widely used by the 2040s. We’ve also already seen Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) being used to allow people to complete actions, like moving items, through their thoughts alone. It can even transcribe or vocalize words from someone’s thoughts if they are unable. Typically, this is done through sensors attached to the brain which analyze brain waves, but we could soon see this evolving to human microchipping.

Orwell’s 1984 is coming to life. The ‘thought police’ could read people’s faces to determine their beliefs, and then take action accordingly. Lucky for us, they never were quite able to learn exactly what a person was thinking… Let’s just hope life imitates art and not the other way around. It’s clear the brain is powerful, and very much still a mystery—but for how long?

This month’s report brought us three very fascinating and simultaneously alarming articles on the dangers of artificial intelligence, and reminded us why the future of artificial intelligence is really in our hands. Will we use it for good or evil? While artificial intelligence undeniably paves the way for a more innovative future, it is not without its cost. The only question is: are we as a society willing to pay the price?

Read the full article here.

Talk to us: Which article do you like best? Why? Let us know in the comments below, we would love to hear from you!

Take a look at more top articles, trends and influencers by signing up to our newsletter—By getting to choose which topics interest you the most, you get the latest news delivered with ease: https://essentials.news/ai/my-essentials