the terminator's origins or how the semantic web could endanger humanity
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TERMINATOR’S ORIGINS or how the semantic web could
endanger humanity
Miel Vander Sande [@Miel_vds]
Working on the Semantic Web ‘s bright future
is also working on the Semantic Web‘s dark side
Misuse by Humans
Misuse by Machines
Misuse by Humans
Ginormous Linked Open Data cloud
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Content
A big chunk is social data
Intelligent and generic agents
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Content
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High quality Linked Data
Automatic rule based content generation
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Content
{
?x ex:Article ?y.
?y ex:subject dbpedia:Barack_Obama.
}
=>
{ ?x ex:category ex:FrontPage }.
Force false knowledge extraction
Manipulate semantic driven tasks
If type == ex:FrontPage #create html to present article
{
?x a ex:Article .
=>
{ ?x rdfs:comment “<script> … open websocket … </script>” }.
”One of the defining characteristics of a successful information system is its level
of exploitation by spammers.” - Ian Davis
Fully context aware, easily produced and reproduced
<http://.../John> a foaf:Person;
foaf:firstname “John”;
foaf:knows <http://.../Marc> .
<http://.../Marc> a foaf:Person ;
ex:attends <http://.../ISWC> .
<http://.../ISWC> a swpo:Conference ;
swpo:hasLocation <http://.../Boston> .
<http://.../Concert_TheWho> a music:Concert ;
music:venue <http://.../TD Garden> .
Hey John, Marc here. I saw you attend ISWC soon. Want to join me for the concert of The Who: http://spam.url
Provenance manipulation fools proof and trust
WebID
Provenance
Data Proof & Trust
needs needs based on
https://test.net/#mvs a prov:Person, prov:Agent;
:post a prov:Entity, sioc:Post;
sioc:title “Buy Mentos, the freshmaker"^^xsd:string;
prov:wasAttributedTo <https://test.net/#mvs>;
prov:generatedAtTime "2011-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime .
Malicious links trick automated processes
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Photogallery
owl:sameAs owl:sameAs
owl:sameAs
Image
Image
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Worm
Misuse by Machines
Fully deployed web of things
”Machine intelligence is not human intelligence.”
- Chris Welty
Acceptance of machine intelligence
Judgement day?
How much trust will we put in machines and the Semantic Web?
Today: drones, Stuxnet
We need to
proactively brainstorm about misuse
investigate fail-safe approaches
discuss "acceptable machine behaviour" before it's too late?
Discuss! Miel Vander Sande [@Miel_vds]
Attributions
• Photo title slide by Ujang Uung
• Photo slide #1 by Cayusa
• Photo slide #2 by morteza bahmani
• Photo slide #3 by Hugh Hart & ed6505
• Photos slide #4 by Moyo Ogunjale & Dark Lord
• Photo slide #6 by Huafeng Xie
• Photo slide #14 by Universal Studios