The government has hired tech investor Ian Hogarth to lead its taskforce on artificial intelligence and he fears the NHS could be at risk of a ‘biological attack’
An Artificial Intelligence expert fears for the future of the NHS saying robots could cripple the sector and even carry out a “biological attack”.
Tech entrepreneur and AI specialist Ian Hogarth was hired earlier this year by the government to lead its task force on artificial intelligence. Reporting directly to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and technology secretary Chloe Smith, he also says that superhuman systems could be used to ‘design diseases’.
He believes the biggest risks facing the £100million project, which works to protect the public from dangerous artificial intelligence, is the potential the technology that could cause ‘horrific disruption on scale of Covid pandemic’. The new AI tsar has warned that it could be used to design new diseases and it is getting better by the day.
AI refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think and act like humans. It lowers the barriers to “perpetrating some kind of cyber attack or cyber crime” and he feels the UK needed to collaborate with countries around the world including China to try and prevent attacks. He said: “It’s just like pandemics. It’s the sort of thing where you can’t go it alone.