Many of the techniques that help manipulate public perception, create
fake news and make false leads for the subsequent prosecution of an
innocent party are based on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
While the Silicon giants in America have more or less established a
monopoly in social and political engineering through social media, bots
and various algorithms, America’s security agencies are moving in the
same direction, but with much more aggressive goals.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a leader in this field. For example, the agency has already allocated $2 billion to AI development projects over the next five years.
One of these – Artificial Intelligence Exploration launched in July
2018 – is aimed at developing third wave AI tools that bring reasoning
and contextual awareness to a technology that might not understand the
world it is trying to describe. This is DARPA’s main umbrella project.
Another is aimed at automating the extraction of scientific knowledge
and is fittingly called Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction. The
tool will automatically locate new data and scientific resources,
analyse them for useful information, compare the findings to existing
research, then generate new models.
