Today, for the first time in history, thanks to artificial intelligence, it is possible for anybody to make counterfeit people who can pass for real in many of the new digital environments we have created. These counterfeit people are the most dangerous artifacts in human history, capable of destroying not just economies but human freedom itself.
People: recruiting cyborgs (FR). Overemployed enabled by ChatGPT. Everyone above average. Mental health issues cost UK businesses £6.9 billion in lost productivity due to long-term illness in the year to August.
Society: Investing in art through shares? Remote places on Earth serve to simulate life on other planets. Dumb phones on the rise in the US. UberEats and foodstamps. Streets: less road, more people.
Tech: rewind pendant for audio, AI. Future(s) of AI ? Bard's AI Cross-pollination. Pirated ebooks fed LLMs training. A Tesla crashes every 11s. Ways SaaS can use AI. 52% of Americans concerned by AI.
Sec: US defence take on deepfakes. China flooding Taiwan with disinformation. InfoSec job crisis. 37C3 - Chaos Computer Club.
DIY: Good tuto for drip campaigns (FR). Convos as directed graphs. Using a “log” with chatgpt.
The European Commission declared the following four technologies as “highly likely to present the most sensitive and immediate risks related to technology security and technology leakage”: (1) advanced semiconductor technologies, (2) AI technologies, (3) quantum technologies, and (4) biotechnologies.
