Space Debris. Hacking and viruses. Threats to the Internet. Net Nutrality. How Broken Hyperlinks Are Screwing Up Science. How to Break the Internet. Every single satellite orbiting Earth, in a single image. (BGR) : space. Battlefield: Space. The Defense Department's newest satellite technology, Warfighter I, sits inside a protected clean room in Germantown, Md. To enter, you must run your shoes through a cleaning device and then don a ''bunny suit,'' a layered hooded outfit that covers every part of your body except your eyes. ''Human skin sloughs off as many 30,000 particles a second,'' says the program manager, Michael Lembeck, as we step onto a tacky mat, essentially an enormous piece of flypaper. ''If one speck of skin got on the Warfighter's lens,'' he adds with friendly hyperbole, ''it would set us back 20 years.'' The satellite, which is not much bigger than a college sophomore's dorm refrigerator, is undergoing final tests.
Several different machines -- producing an artificial magnetic field, digitally created blinking stars, phony sunshine and computer-generated Global Positioning System signals -- are fooling the satellite into acting as if it were in real orbit. Single Point of Failure: The Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords. Spectrum Crunch. How Much Longer Before Our First AI Catastrophe? As I distinctly recall, some speculated that the Stock Market crash of 1987, was due to high frequency trading by computers, and mindful of this possibility, I think regulators passed laws to prevent computers from trading in that specific pattern again.
I remember something vague about about "throttles" being installed in the trading software that kick in whenever they see a sudden, global spike in the area in which they are trading. These throttles where supposed to slow down trading to a point where human operators could see what was happening and judge whether there was an unintentional feedback loop happening. This was 1987. I don't know if regulators have mandated other changes to computer trading software in the various panics and spikes since then. But yes, I definitely agree this is very good example where narrow AI got us into trouble. And I definitely agree that network worms and trojans is another good example of AI get us and even their builders into unintended trouble. Comms giant pushes anti-spy network. Quantum Security Networking and Storage. Find out where you are on the Cyberthreat map / Узнай, где сейчас кипит кибервойна.