The Ethics of AI Exploits: Are We Creating Our Own Cyber Doomsday?

As artificial intelligence advances at rates never previously encountered, its impact upon society is taking hold ever more profoundly and extensively. From autonomous vehicles and personalized medicine to generative media and intelligent infrastructure, AI is changing every area it touches. But lurking in the background of these revolutionary promises is a chilly, black fear: Are we also building the tools of our own digital demise? 

The ethics of AI exploits, although intentional or emergent, raise profoundly disturbing questions about the cybersecurity, anonymity, and even global security of the future.