'Pig Butchering’ Scams Lure Victims Into Fake Investments
The terrible term describes a key tactic for criminals perpetrating investment and romance scams
Digital Ethics
Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having 'profound' security and privacy issues | TechCrunch
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking on stage at the SXSW conference in
Whittaker explained how AI agents are being marketed as a way to add value to your life by handling various online tasks for the user. For instance, AI agents would be able to take on tasks like looking up concerts, booking tickets, scheduling the event on your calendar, and messaging your friends that it’s booked.
“So we can just put our brain in a jar because the thing is doing that and we don’t have to touch it, right?,” Whittaker mused.
Then she explained the type of access the AI agent would need to perform these tasks, including access to our web browser and a way to drive it as well as access to our credit card information to pay for tickets, our calendar, and messaging app to send the text to your friends.
“It would need to be able to drive that [process] across our entire system with something that looks like root permission, accessing every single one of those databases — probably in the clear, because there’s no model to do that encrypted,” Whittaker warned.
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity, with nearly one in four Americans now saying they have used AI in place of traditional search engines. These tools derive their value from crawling the internet for up-to-date, relevant information—content that is often produced by news publishers. Yet a troubling imbalance has emerged: while traditional search […]
Denis O. on LinkedIn: #ai | 39 comments
Gödel was always right...
Gödel is the man who shattered the illusion of discrete computing being able to reason before Turing even dreamed of Enigma. Before… | 39 comments on LinkedIn
It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert's writings
The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience.
Denis O. on LinkedIn: #ai | 40 comments
Hinton-- the Godfather of Artificial Illusion
Geoffrey Hinton’s work shaped what we call AI today. Building on the foundations of Hopfield networks and… | 40 comments on LinkedIn
Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not.
Probabilistic generalizations based on internet content are not steps toward algorithmic moral personhood, write David McNeill and Emily Tucker.
Frontiers | Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid and Causal Reasoning Will Not Fix It
Artificial Neural Networks have reached “grandmaster” and even “super-human” performance across a variety of games, from those involving perfect information,...
iCloud Drive - Apple iCloud
Store, organize and collaborate on files and folders with iCloud Drive. Easily upload, delete or recover files. Changes will sync across your devices with iCloud.
AI Company That Made Robots For Kids Goes Under, Robots Die - Aftermath
Embodied, maker of the AI robot called Moxie, is shuttering. With their closing, parents have to explain to their kids that Moxie is dead.
How's That AI Future Looking? - Aftermath
The Humane AI pin died on the way back to its home planet
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
This is a general audience deep dive into the Large Language Model (LLM) AI technology that powers ChatGPT and related products. It is covers the full traini...
What AI is doing to America's democracy | LSE Event
AI Mistakes Are Very Different From Human Mistakes
We need new security systems designed to deal with their weirdness
Unintended by Design: On the Political Uses of “Unintended Consequences” | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
Three Fallacies: Alondra Nelson's Remarks at the Elysée Palace on the Occasion of the AI Action Summit
Dr. Nelson was an invited speaker at a dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palais de l'Élysée on February 10, 2025.
AI health impact
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.
Paper page - Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed
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Introducing Data & Society’s Climate, Technology, and Justice Program
Data & Society advances public understanding of the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation.
AI as flying machines
ballooons, airplanes, rockets
Letting Go of Technochauvinism - Public Books
In my talk for the Co-Opting AI series, I spoke about my book, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, which looks ...
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
Reddit - on Wikipedia
This sub is for collecting and sharing critical information about Wikipedia, while providing a safe space for any editors/users who've been victimized by Wikipedia for any reason to speak their experiences here. The political alignment of this community is outside of mainstream (i.e. Marxist left). Please go to the sister subreddit /r/WatchWikipediaDie if you're looking to discuss Wikipedia through mainstream perspectives.
Delivery apps urged to lift lid on ‘black-box algorithms’ affecting UK couriers
Campaigners call for transparency from Deliveroo, JustEat and UberEats about how decisions on pay and jobs are made
Catherine Denial on LinkedIn: My students this term have been *passionate* in their rejection of… | 108 comments
My students this term have been *passionate* in their rejection of generative AI. I think the wildfires have something to do with it – the environmental impact… | 108 comments on LinkedIn
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Samsung caught faking zoom photos of the Moon
A photo of a blurry image of the Moon revealed some telling results.
West Virginia isn’t ready for data centers • West Virginia Watch
In early December, news broke that lawmakers were asked to come to the Capitol for a special session to pass a bill.
Glossary: Data Colonialism - Critical Data Studies - Purdue University