Thread: Hackers tricked a Tesla, the race to fool artificial intelligence

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A sticker on the road. A pile of salt. These are things that could cause a semi-automated car to drift.

Key points:

• Researchers show how white dots on a road could push a Tesla in autopilot into the wrong lane
• Tesla says drivers can always override autopilot, and "should always be prepared to do so"
• The research raises complex legal questions about tricking a computer versus hacking it

Using white dots stuck on the tarmac, a recent study from Tencent Keen Security Lab in China pushed a Tesla Model S onto the wrong side of the road.
This is not computer hacking. At least, not in the darkened-room-and-hoodies sense of the word.
As more of daily life moves not only online but into the orbit of intelligent machines, computer scientists and lawyers are debating a fuzzy line: when are you hacking a computer and when are you simply tricking it?

Tesla said it already fixed the key vulnerability raised by the report, adding that drivers can override autopilot at any point, and "should always be prepared to do so".
Yet what makes the work so interesting is the researchers didn't have to alter the car's code. They just used its own cameras and sensors, which look for lane markings, against it.

At Harvard University, Ariel Herbert-Voss studies adversarial machine learning — where an attacker uses external signals to force an AI system into making an incorrect prediction, like choosing the wrong lane.

Ms Herbert-Voss grew up hacking computers and doesn't see much of a distinction, if any at all, between hacking a system and tricking it.
Hackers usually want to make money, she said, or to "cause some general chaos".

"In most cases it just involves fooling a system somehow, and usually they want to take the path of least resistance.

"So, if you can fool a car by just having a bunch of stickers on the road, I guarantee you hackers are going do that."


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