In a mildly comedic response, a ransomware gang decided to file an official SEC complaint when a victim ignored their ransom demand. The AlphV/BlackCat ransomware group has filed a complaint with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against MeridianLink, a software company, for not disclosing a cyberattack within a supposed four-day deadline. The ransomware […]
Before OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was ousted, researchers at OpenAI reportedly sent a letter to the board warning of a significant AI breakthrough with “potential risks to humanity”. The letter and a new AI algorithm, referred to as Q* (Q-star), it has been claimed, may have been key factors in Altman’s removal. Some at OpenAI […]
Law enforcement and intelligence agencies from 18 countries, including the EU, the US, and others, have signed an international agreement on AI safety to ensure new AI technologies are “secure by design.” This follows the EU’s AI Act, which bans certain AI technologies (such as predictive policing and biometric surveillance) and classifies high-risk AI systems. […]
ACM WebSci’24: Call for Submissions Conference Dates: May 21-24, 2024 websci24.org/ Hosted by the Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS) | Organized by the University of Stuttgart | Partners ACM • Cyber Valley • Web Science Trust • SigWeb Papers [LINK] Submission Deadline: Nov. 30, 2023 Contact for questions: acmwebsci24@easychair.org Workshops/Tutorials [LINK] Submission […]
Apollo research recently presented some disturbing findings at the UK AI safety summit. Their goal had been to co-erce (rather than instruct) an AI (in this case ChatGPT) to engage in some deceitful / illegal activity on the premise of this being helpful to humans (a “greater good” challenge). In the experiment the AI was […]
European lawmakers have reached an agreement on measures to safeguard elections and prevent policy fragmentation within the EU. The rules aim to protect EU elections from foreign interference, banning political ads targeting specific ethnic and religious groups and blocking ads funded by foreign lobbyists leading up to elections. The regulations, part of the EU’s broader […]
ChatGPT developer Open AI have introduced a slew of new features to their platform including faster (and cheaper!) versions of ChatGPT and DALL-E as well as a platform for building DIY AI Assistants and DIY versions of LLM apps known as GPT’s. Open AI is clearly looking to the financial success of the Apple Appstore […]
The UK government is encouraging police to expand their use of retrospective facial recognition (RFR) software to identify offenders. The policing minister has recommended over 200,000 image searches against the Police National Database within six months. This push, along with the drive for more live facial recognition cameras, has sparked concerns about civil liberties and […]
Elon Musk’s xAI (nee Twitter) have just released a beta product named Grok (named from Sci-Fi author Robert Heinlein’s cyber-slang) meaning “to understand” Grok is based on large language models (LLM’s) like ChatGPT and has been trained on millions of articles from the Web. Where it differs is in retrieving up-to-date facts directly in real […]
Source: The following is reproduced in full from the UK Gov Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-safety-summit-2023-the-bletchley-declaration/the-bletchley-declaration-by-countries-attending-the-ai-safety-summit-1-2-november-2023 Nov 6th 2023 Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents enormous global opportunities: it has the potential to transform and enhance human wellbeing, peace and prosperity. To realise this, we affirm that, for the good of all, AI should be designed, developed, deployed, and used, […]