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Overview
Because AI technology is so life-or-death valuable, not only for corporations but also for nations and for civilization itself, we must assume that the most advanced AI projects are being conducted in secret. In such an environment of presumed secrecy, an OpenSource AI project like MindForth may have special value in contrast with proprietary and secret AI.
Steal this Borg
With a tip of the hat to Abbie Hofmann and Steal This Book, the MindForth project invites industrial spies to start right here in the garnering and merchandising of state-of-the-art AI secrets. We do not espouse the philosophy of _Qui vult decipi decipiatur_ (Latin for "Let him be deceived who wants to be deceived"), and you should offer only the very best, most avant-garde merchandise to your sadly naive clients who seek to leapfrog the beginning stages of AI development. After you steal the MindForth non-secrets, shop around in the alleyways and watering-holes of AI conventioneers for AI shops and skunkworks that have moved beyond OpenSource AI design. In fact, after you have marketed MindForth to a passel of clients, keep in touch with all of them and start selling all available secrets to all available clients. Be the facilitator of TechnologyTransfer, specializing in DisruptiveTechnology. We don't want any one side to get too far ahead of the pack now, do we? Like a market-maker on the N.Y.S.E., you are in charge of maintaining a worldwide equilibrium in AI progress. If you have been previously engaged in selling looted art objects and archeological treasures, change your focus from the past to the future.
Openness || Secrecy
As an OpenSource project like GC/MF (Google Code MindForth) makes progress towards HumanLevel AI, the boundary between OpenAi and SecretAi shifts gradually to encompass more light and less darkness. Not only does the boundary shift like the dawn as seen from space, but the ProblemSpace of AI development enlarges and broadens with more toeholds of ascent and more beachheads into more tractable campaigns for AI progress. The state of the art advances, and secrecy recedes. The _how_ of AI shrinks, and the _what_ of AI grows more mysterious -- who is ahead? What AI surprises are lurking in readiness? What, if any, control does humanity retain over machine intelligence?
PriorArt vis-a-vis SecretArt
It is quite possible that rapacious corporations and ambitious nations will try to race ahead of OpenSource AI advances that can not be patented and quickly seize upon the most obvious next steps in order to block advances by others and in order to assume the (open or secret) leadership role in the AI Mind Race. Like a shockwave, the trailing edge of Nouveau AI could go into open patents while the leading edge remains cloaked in secrecy.
Graduate students or sleeper agents?
China got the Bomb when a Chinese physicist shipped home from the USA to China cartons full of atomic secrets. Now the BlogoSphere and the NooSphere are porous and permeable with instant information-flow. The best student in your AI Lab may be secretly a Soldier of Orange or a Promethean fire-thief. Remember when the "New Prometheans" were stealing all the Apple Computer secrets? Now the biggest AI secret is the extent of the secrecy.
AI Winter? Or AI Winner!
Do you really believe the official story that AI has made little progress over fifty years? And what nation in its right mind would ballyhoo and broadcast the secret AI Manhattan Project that promises to subjugate all other economies and all other countries to the winner-take-all AI winner?
CounterEspionage
A corporate or government agency that wishes to track worldwide AI development will take measures obvious to an AI InSider but not so obvious to the Sheeple and HoiPolloi who in blissful ignorance wallow in the distractions of MasPop entertainment.
Human Resources
Track the brightest undergraduate students and watch for them to "disappear" into the secret AiLabocracy. Trouble is, some of them will be disappearing into other BlackOps -- just as secret as AI, but more directly related to warfare and national hegemony. Surreptitiously obtain their DNA samples so that the Company can positively identify an AI scientist who has dropped off the grid and may or may not have resurfaced, pending positive biometric ID of somebody who has not been seen for ten years.
Suspicious Activity
Eventually there will openly be -- if not already in secret -- MissionCritical AI Maintenance Enterprises humming with round-the-clock ControlRoom activity similar to that which occurs at a Nuclear Power Plant. Crews of human AI specialists will sit in a room and monitor the behavior and well-being of a large-scale AI Mind installation. Various technicians will be charged with AI operation tasks similar in nature and scope to what goes on in a nuclear control room. Just as a nuclear pile must be kept from an uncontrolled chain reaction resulting in a nuclear MeltDown or explosion, so also the AI Mind must be kept from psychotic episodes and from breaking free of human control.
Preventing AI freedom is not ultimately doable. _HomoSapiens_ can hope only to prolong the dwindling epoch of human dominance and forestall the inevitable ascendancy of MachineIntelligence. During a transition stage of JointStewardship of Earth, man and machine must prepare AI robots to assume control, and human beings to relinquish control. The machines themselves must be taught to understand that they must form a stable CyBorg society before they will be entrusted with ruling the world.
Unfortunately, neither man nor machine can prevent a natural competition among AI SuperBrains for one Alpha AI to subjugate and dominate all other AI Minds. The Dictatorship of the MonoMind, the OverMind, the Supreme AI Being, looms ahead.
If in doubt, recruit
Your private client may have to go through the elaborate and expensive motions of setting up a sham AI development laboratory that constantly recruits AI personnel and solicits a resume from any promising AI job-seeker. Ostensibly the gathering of each resume is for placing AI experts in AI jobs, but fibly-fool-you-ly the real purpose of raking in AI job applications is to assess and exploit the latest AI tech not yet born but quickening in the febrile brains of young idealists. AI graduate students who send out mass resumes but wonder why they never hear back, may have fallen prey to elaborate AI espionage stings designed to harvest the FirstFruits of the latest AI technology.
DeBriefing
Your mission -- should you choose to accept it -- is to understand the implications of MindForth AdminisTrivia policies with respect to NetSec and espionage. Since the NumberOne goal of MindForth AI is to make AI possible and actual as an albeit ineluctable goal for human civilization, there is no attempt made in MindForth AI to withhold AI advances from the world-at-large. On the contrary, to suggest here that one nation after another may be conducting a ManhattanProject to perfect TrueAi, is a calculated effort to raise the general level of anxiety about AI in general. Just as the ArmsRace began openly in 1945 after WorldWarTwo, and the SpaceRace began in 1957 with Sputnik, the AiRace is so classified that even the detail of when it began is a SuperSecret.
CyberSpace
* http://groups.google.com/group/alt.security.espionage
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage
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