The Language of Deception

Weaponizing Next Generation AI

By: Justin Hutchens

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

In The Language of Deception, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity veteran Justin Hutchens delivers an incisive and penetrating look at how contemporary and future AI can and will be weaponized for malicious and adversarial purposes. In the book, you will explore the history of social engineering and social robotics, the psychology of deception, considerations of machine sentience and consciousness, and the history of how technology has been weaponized in the past. From these foundations, the author examines topics related to the emerging risks of advanced AI technologies, including

- The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for social manipulation, disinformation, psychological operations, deception and fraud

- The implementation of LLMs to construct fully autonomous social engineering systems for targeted attacks or for mass manipulation at scale

- The technical use of LLMs and the underlying transformer architecture for use in technical weapons systems to include advanced next-generation malware, physical robotics, and even autonomous munition systems

- Speculative future risks such as the alignment problem, disembodiment attacks, and flash wars.

©2024 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (P)2024 Ascent Audio

Overall, pretty disappointed

Just to get this part out-of-the-way, the narration was fine.

Regarding the book itself, I had high expectations on it, but none were realized.

I think the first three or four chapters could be cut entirely. The history of what ’got us here’ is overall irrelevant now. It was boring.

And then when addressing the threats and concerns with AI, I had two issues with this. The first issue was, I had a hard time understanding certain aspects of it. I am in the data protection field, and I thought some parts got to technical.

The second issue was OK, now that I know what the concerns are, what can I really do about them. The answer is, not much. Given that , I wonder what the point was.

Frankly, useless information, and doesn’t give you any takeaways beyond “educating yourself”.

Like I said, pretty disappointing