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One of the greatest challenges of civilization is countering and preventing the criminal

mind, but with the rise of artificial intelligence, we may see criminals creating minds

to further their own ends.

So this episode comes out shortly before Halloween and thus we've picked a bit of a scary

topic, how people will use artificial intelligence to commit crime and how AIs might turn

criminal themselves. And worse, why both are likely to be major problems for society and sooner

than later, whilst we're looking at Asmos' classic three-launcher

robotics and deconstructing them for loopholes, as well as the general concept of a list

of rules or prime directors for robots to follow.

Now while this is our last episode before Halloween, we usually do our monthly live-stream

Q&A on the last Sunday of each month, and that's Halloween this year, so don't

forget to join us Sunday, October 31st, at 4 p.m. Eastern time, each of questions answered,

and also don't forget to hit the like and subscribe buttons for alerts when those

live streams and other episodes are coming out.

Now this topic got on the drawing board while I was doing some presentation and talks on

artificial intelligence and human machine teaming at the Human Computer Interactions

2021 conference and then MIT Lincoln Labs, and that latter developed into our episode on that topic,

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