War Games

War Games is a movie that has caused a lot of misconceptions in the general public about AI and hacking which some people have suffer from this misconceptions. The biggest case would Kevin Mitnick that the point of the prosecutor was that if Kevin Mitnick wasn't stopped at all, he could be the one that starts WW3 just as the movie suggested. We know this is false and even Kevin Mitnick suggested that was a bit of a stretch compared to his abilities. The over simplistic view of complex systems in the , and the paranoia about AI caused a lot of people to think that in reality one person could start a whole war and launch hundreds of missiles to start it. Yet an interesting view about the movie could be the AI, and we have to see the problems that can create when we let a computer to have full control of a system. In this case was an exaggeration making it seem that a computer could be the one that decides the faith of human kind. Now we don't have at this moment computers with such responsibility but in the current moment we have computers that are in charge of lives of some people. The most common and recent example of this case is the self driven cars that were create by different companies. Uber and Tesla both had problems with the AIs and causing fatal accidents , so unfortunately the drivers lost their lives. We can see the the good things of implmenting AI in our systems but at the moment it seems the risk is larger than the reward. So it makes us wonder if we are ever going to be able to truly rely on AI for the functionality of some systems? In matter of fact the better question would be if we will be ever ready for AI to take control of such tasks?

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