Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I often post things at the weekend, that are a bit outside the regular Smart Thinking articles, are possibly a longer read, but they give usually give context to our cyber security and privacy stories. here is one of the increasing use of facial recognition by the authorities in the …
You would think yes. An international treaty to combat cyber-crime getting the signatory countries to pull together to combat cross border malicious cyber activity. But then the politicians and the special interest groups got involved and now it could end up being a completely different tool. See what Amy Hogan-Burney, …
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Here is a thought provoking essay from the public-interest technologist Bruce Schneier: AI and Microdirectives – Schneier on Security Something to read with the morning coffee this weekend. It is actually “further listening – The BBC Reith Lectures, by Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science and founder of the Center …
AI risk what is it? This is a follow-up to last weekend’s more extensive post looking at the AI extinction event that was making headlines in the mainstream media. If we’re going to label AI an ‘extinction risk’, we need to clarify how it could happen (theconversation.com) Professor Nello Cristianini, …
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There have been some very sensational articles in both the fringe and mainstream media about the AI risk to wipe out the human race! Here is the statement on the Centre for AI Safety website that led to these stories : Statement on AI Risk | CAIS (safe.ai) The essay …
Here is an excellent essay by Baldur Bjarnason on the manipulation of ChatGPT and other large language model AIs: The poisoning of ChatGPT (softwarecrisis.dev)
Here is an interesting article to read over breakfast this Sunday. How the UK Government needs to intrude into your privacy. The UK’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up | WIRED UK I am not comfortable with the argument that if you have not done anything wrong, then you …
