On this episode, we dive into a few of the AI security stories which have been issued in latest weeks. Jeffery Atik first takes us by the fundamentals of attention-based AI, after which into stories on AI security from OpenAI and Stanford. Precisely what AI security covers stays opaque (and poisonous, for my part, after the ideological purges dedicated within the identify of “belief and security” by Silicon Valley’s content material suppression bureaucracies). However there is not any doubt {that a} potential existential problem lurks beneath the floor of probably the most formidable AI tasks.
Whether or not or not ChatGPT’s stochastic parroting will ever pose a risk to humanity, Nick Weaver stories, it clearly poses a risk to lots of people’s reputations.
I confess that there is surprisingly little cyberlaw within the greatest intel leak of the final decade. It seems that leakers can do as a lot injury as cyberspies, simply by folding, carrying, and photographing categorized paperwork. Whereas there’s some proof that the Russian authorities might have piggybacked on the leak to sow disinformation, Nick says, the actual puzzle is the leaker’s motivation. That leads us to the query whether or not being a griefer is grounds for dropping your clearance.
Paul Rosenzweig educates us concerning the Limiting the Emergence of Safety Threats that Danger Data and Communications Expertise (RESTRICT) Act, which might empower the administration to restrict or ban TikTok. He highlights probably the most distinguished argument towards the invoice, which is, no shock, the discretion the act would confer on the chief department. The invoice’s authors, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD), have responded to this criticism, nevertheless it appears as if they’re going to offer substantive limits on govt discretion solely within the warmth of Congressional motion.
Nick is impressed by the regulation enforcement operation that shuttered Genesis Market, the place credentials have been extensively offered to hackers. The info seized by the FBI within the operation can pay dividends for years.
I give a warning to anybody who has left a delicate intelligence job to work within the personal sector: In case your new employer has ties to a international authorities, the Director of Nationwide Intelligence has issued a brand new directive that (kind of) places you on discover that you possibly can be violating federal regulation. The directive has detailed provisions for the way the intelligence neighborhood will inform its present staff concerning the new post-employment restrictions, nevertheless it affords little or no steering to intelligence neighborhood alumni who’ve already moved to the personal sector.
Nick is enthusiastic concerning the robust tone taken by the Treasury in its report on the illicit finance threat in decentralized finance.
Paul and I cowl Utah’s invoice requiring teenagers to get parental approval to affix social media websites. After twenty years of mocking crimson states and their Congressional delegations for attempting to manage the web’s impression on children, it appears to me as if Information Class dad and mom are getting apprehensive about their very own kids. When the concept of age-checking web customers will get endorsed by the UK, Utah, and The New Yorker, I counsel, these arguing towards the proposal might have a more durable time than they did within the 90s.
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