Risks of technology

Question 1

Satellite and camera advantages

Answer 1

• reveal human rights violations around the world eg. Amnesty International’s satellite photographs of burnt Rohingya villages in Myanmar in 2017 so UN is able to hold government accountable
• also Australian authorities used satellite photos to make to the case against the Chinese government because of use of ‘re-education camps’ for Urghus muslims
• surveillance of other countries
• could diffuse tensions as less military built or stop military action before it happens

Question 2

Satellite and camera risks

Answer 2

• increase political tension as people don’t like to be monitored
• extremely challenging to build up weapons or forces in any one location without anyone knowing about it
• could increase tensions as countries will have to be more secretive

Question 3

Social media advantages

Answer 3

• crowdsourcing eg. Mexico City drafted new constitution through social media
• can petition for issues
• decreases social unrest and increases say of the people

Question 4

Social media disadvantages

Answer 4

• identity fraud
• increased cyber attacks
• link between cybercrime and violent crime
• 2023 UN reported that at least 220,000 people been trafficked in Southeast Asia and forced to run online scams
  eg. phishing, ransomware, trojans, viruses, cryptojacking etc

Question 5

AI advantages

Answer 5

• improving efficiency, innovation, minimising errors, assisting dangerous tasks
• benefit society and economy

Question 6

AI disadvantages

Answer 6

• military use of AI
• More than 30 nations have or are developing armed drones - eg. US, UK, China, Israel, Russia and South Korea
• most controlled remotely but future weapons could search for, identify and decide to engage targets on their own
• saves human lives on one side but at global scale will this escalate tensions?
• humans cannot react fast enough to defend ground vehicles from missiles = protection systems to automatically sense and defeat threats