Thieves are using AI’s increasing skill at cloning people’s voices to steal money from bank accounts.
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U.K. WILL HOST “AI SAFETY SUMMIT” IN NOVEMBER
Not to be outdone by Yanks, on the first two days of November the U.K. will host a global “AI Safety Summit” to explore realistic options for regulating AI.
SENATE LEADER SCHUMER CONVENES “AI 101” COURSE WITH TECH LEADERS
U.S. senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has planned nine “AI Insight Forums” to educate senators about AI, starting this week.
META AND CARNEGIE MELLON PUT AI INTO ROBOTS THAT NOW LEARN LIKE TODDLERS
Toddlers learn by wandering around their environments, picking things up, and playing with them to see what they’re for and how they work. Now Meta and Carnegie Mellon University’s renowned robotics department have collaborated to make robots that learn the way three-year-olds do. They named the AI “RoboAgent”.
HACKS ARE INCREASING. THANK AI FOR THAT.
Experts said AI will create more jobs. Hacking seems to be one of those lucky professions.
BRITISH CYBERSECURITY EXPERTS WARN ABOUT AI’S DANGER TO ORGANIZATIONS
Experts at the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have warned organizations that chatbots can still be easily fooled into ignoring their behavioral guardrails or tricked into saying or posting incorrect, offensive, or damaging information.
AI’s “QUICK AND EASY” DISINFORMATION MACHINE
An anonymous, self-described “cybersecurity professional” built an AI in the course of a few weeks for the purpose of spreading fake news and other forms of disinformation.
AI: THE NEW SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER
Major manufacturers and transport companies including Maersk, Siemens, and Unilever are putting AI to work to advise on contract terms, hunt down suppliers on better shipping routes or with better terms, and spot ethical potholes, such as buying cotton from China’s Xinjiang region, where Uighur Muslims are allegedly enslaved.
WHY TODAY’S AI FRENZY IS NOT THE DOT-COM BUBBLE 2.0
In the 1990s, any company with “dot-com” attached to its name could issue stock, share prices would soar, and millionaires would be made in the company and in the equity market.
CHATBOTS OFFER HACKERS AN OPEN DOOR TO A NEW PLAYGROUND
Earlier this month at the annual Defcon computer hackers conference, Anthropic, OpenAI, and other artificial intelligence developers invited the world’s best cyber-invaders to be their most creative in attacking and penetrating current generative AIs.