AI

One of the more dangerous areas in AI is something called predictive analytics which uses historical and current data to forecast future outcomes and trends. A simple example is a school where the teachers meet to discuss a particular student whose actions set off alarms. He may be the kind of student who will try to shoot up the school. On a larger and far more significant level is a company who collects large amounts of data and uses that to predict the future behavior of some individual or group. This can easily be misused. For example, a government who wants to silence some person can collect information which indicates this person is planning some kind of terrorist act and they then arrest him. The real story is that his speech is a threat but the cover story is that he is arrested because he is a terror threat. As more data is collected the opportunities for misuse increase.