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Jacques-Olivier Martin warns of an AI Frankenstein beyond control

From Le Figaro · () French

Translated from French and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Jacques-Olivier Martin argues that artificial intelligence is acquiring a darker side as cyberattacks increasingly threaten infrastructure and essential services.
  • He contrasts AI’s benefits in research, productivity and education with tools capable of finding weaknesses in companies, banks, administrations and armies.
  • The editorial frames the shift through the image of Frankenstein, a creation whose power escapes its maker.

Artificial intelligence is moving from a near-perfect creation to something closer to Frankenstein, Jacques-Olivier Martin argues in an editorial warning about the growth of AI-assisted cyberattacks.

He begins with the remarkable promise of AI. The technology accelerates scientific research, improves productivity and has become a teacher, assistant and intellectual sparring partner. But Martin says another face is now emerging: digital tools with extraordinary power to search for vulnerabilities in almost every kind of defensive system.

Is the history of artificial intelligence now shifting from Pygmalion to Frankenstein?

· Jacques-Olivier MartinThe editorial uses the contrast between Pygmalion and Frankenstein to describe AI becoming difficult for its creators to control.

The targets he names extend from companies and banks to public administrations and armies. Even ordinary objects in daily life could be exposed. Locks once considered impenetrable, he writes, can now give way to digital Arsène Lupins.

The warning reaches beyond individual computer systems. Martin says cyberattacks carried out with AI threaten infrastructure, essential services and national security. He presents the danger as growing at the same pace as advances in these “digital intelligences,” creating a widening gap between their capabilities and the controls designed to contain them.

digital intelligences

· Jacques-Olivier MartinMartin uses the phrase to describe increasingly powerful AI tools.
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