Category: Ethics of Computer Science
Why AI is a Threat for our Digital Security
Artificial intelligence has a great potential to improve many areas of our lives in the future. But what happens when these AI technologies are used maliciously? Sure, a big topic may be autonomous weapons or so called “killer robots”. But beside our physical security – what about our digital one? How the malicious use of…
Human Error in IT failures
With the ever-increasing complexity of artificial systems that aid humans in their daily and work lives, their operation procedures have grown more complicated and the potential for mishandling is higher than ever before. In the IT world, modern systems that must serve hundreds of millions of customers simultaneously and reliably have grown so complex that…
Stupid by nature? – How psychology influences our security decisions
An overview on how psychology influences our decision making process, cognitive biases and why good security trade-offs are so important.