LAS VEGAS — "Invisibility cloaks" and "digital twins" are among artificial intelligence technologies that could soon give America's enemies weapons beyond people's wildest imaginations, say national security officials gathered Tuesday at the Black Hat USA 2024 hacker conference.
Hackers and cybersecurity professionals see promise and profit where the U.S. government sees peril.
NVIDIA engineering manager Bartley Richardson said the world is "not that far away" from creating a digital twin for each of the hundreds of hackers assembled at Black Hat's AI summit on Tuesday.
A digital twin is a virtual replica of a person or a real-world asset or system. NVIDIA, an AI powerhouse whose market capitalization exceeded $3 trillion in June, is hard at work building digital twins. In 2021, NVIDIA began working with BMW on the technology, including exploring how to make a digital twin of an automotive factory.
For the intelligence community, the fear is that digital twins and AI assistants are ripe for cyberattacks. Hackers could manipulate real people's digital clones and AI assistants.
