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AI and Microdirectives

Schneier on Security

China is experimenting with even more powerful forms of automated legal enforcement and targeted surveillance. Made possible by advances in surveillance, communications technologies, and big-data analytics, microdirectives will be a new and predominant form of law shaped largely by machines. Yet it is not a future we must endure.

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AI Risks

Schneier on Security

There is no shortage of researchers and industry titans willing to warn us about the potential destructive power of artificial intelligence. Brock calls these fears “wishful worries”—that is, “problems that it would be nice to have, in contrast to the actual agonies of the present.”

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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI

Schneier on Security

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration will drive the next era of growth, wealth, and human flourishing. AI presents the same opportunities. It’s a scary metaphor.

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Cloudastructure: 2021 – Year to Date Review

CyberSecurity Insiders

MIAMI–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Shareholders entrusted Cloudastructure with $30 million via a RegA+ to expand their cloud-based video surveillance platform empowered with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning analytics. The deal is expected to close at the end of January.

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White House unveils Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights

Malwarebytes

On Tuesday, the Biden-Harris Administration's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) unveiled a new Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights , which lists five principles to guide the design, use, and development of intelligence-based automated systems "to protect the American public in the age of artificial intelligence".

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Highlights from the New U.S. Cybersecurity Strategy

Krebs on Security

less dependent on foreign suppliers; the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative ; and the National Strategy to Secure 5G. ” Many of the U.S. ” Many of the U.S. based semiconductor manufacturing and research and to make the U.S.

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Client side scanning may cost more than it delivers

Malwarebytes

This legislation will be presented tomorrow, May 11, 2022 and would also apply to communications services that are end-to-end (E2E) encrypted. Privacy advocates argue it brings the EU closer to the surveillance state that many see in other countries and that is a frightful image. It is also a step back when it comes to cybersecurity.