Currently reading the book The Second Machine Age, which discusses this part from the article: "Not even professional work is safe. The combination of advanced sensors, voice recognition, artificial intelligence, big data, text-mining, and pattern-recognition algorithms is even generating smart robots capable of quickly learning human actions." There's a part in this book that discusses exactly that what is being discussed in this article. Still have to finish it, but it's a good read if you're interested in these kind of developments.
I think that part assumes that people are honest. If not human checks the books, then you could slip a malware on the accounting bot and have it slip a million dollars into a Swiss bank account. If no one looks regularly, you'll never know until you're out of money. Same with driverless delivery - just change the address and have the machine at the receiving site report that the delivery arrived. If no human is there, you're not gonna catch it. We already have skimmers on automatic payments collecting, we have identity theft, and people steal from self checkout all the time. Machines are great and efficient, but they're not smart enough to question orders. A human is.
Currently reading the book The Second Machine Age, which discusses this part from the article: "Not even professional work is safe. The combination of advanced sensors, voice recognition, artificial intelligence, big data, text-mining, and pattern-recognition algorithms is even generating smart robots capable of quickly learning human actions." There's a part in this book that discusses exactly that what is being discussed in this article. Still have to finish it, but it's a good read if you're interested in these kind of developments.
I think that part assumes that people are honest. If not human checks the books, then you could slip a malware on the accounting bot and have it slip a million dollars into a Swiss bank account. If no one looks regularly, you'll never know until you're out of money. Same with driverless delivery - just change the address and have the machine at the receiving site report that the delivery arrived. If no human is there, you're not gonna catch it. We already have skimmers on automatic payments collecting, we have identity theft, and people steal from self checkout all the time. Machines are great and efficient, but they're not smart enough to question orders. A human is.