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The former cybersecurity chief called the UK government “naive” for Apple’s request to add a backdoor to its software. This allows the UK Intelligence Agency to search customer data.
Ciaran Martin He is the head of cybersecurity at the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and was the first CEO of the National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) before joining Oxford University in 2020. New Scientist On reports that the UK government has made an unprecedented request to grant Apple access to data stored anywhere in the world, even if it is encrypted.
Such an order, made under the Investigation Powers Act of 2016, is intended to be made in secret, but Martin says it’s not surprising that details appear to have been leaked. “I think the idea that this type of order for companies like Apple would work secretly was probably naive,” he says.
Martin says that while it’s not uncommon for governments and industries to collide with security issues, he is “not cumbersome, but susceptible to some form of compromise.” He says several times during his career at Intelligence Reporting Agency, technology companies have requested that malicious actors remove features used to harm national security or criminal enterprises. He refused to give detailsBut they often said these are small specialized technology providers.
“They’ll have a new app or something, and it will become a criminal favourite for certain features, and you just say, ‘Look, you can’t do this,'” says Martin. “They are little niche technology, they are widely used. They are more misused than they are used.
At the end of the day, he says, the government must accept that non-crackable encryption will remain here. “The ship sailed,” says Martin. “I think the government has to agree to this in the end, and I think in the long run, I’m trying to force a global Titan. [US] The West Coast is not going well. ”
rEid Hoffman is a prominent Silicon Valley billionaire entrepreneur and investor known for co-founding LinkedIn, a professional social networking site currently owned by Microsoft. He is also solidly anti-Trump. Longtime Democrat donors threw his support behind Kamala Harris at the White House race. Hoffman spoke observer His new book on our future with new political environment technology and artificial intelligence; Super Agency. The book doesn’t ignore any issues that AI can cause, but, This technology claims to be poised to provide a cognitive superpower that will increase our personal, collective human institutions and create a broad state of empowerment in society.
You have a vested interest in being positive about AI, including companies focused on conversational AI for business, Inflection AI. Why should we listen to you? First, economic benefits don’t necessarily make what someone is saying wrong, I am transparent and I try not to hide mine. Secondly, I tend to start with my beliefs and follow my own money. And sometimes it means doing something against my financial interests. Don’t kiss [Trump’s] The ring is probably an economic limiter, as many others have, but in principle it’s better to do it. I could have put the time and energy I spent writing Super Agency I made more money for my company, but I would like to share my intellectual discourse.
What are your hopes for books? I want to at least make people ai-curious, so they start exploring these superpowers that we all may be getting. There is a flood of debate about AI, which tends to be negative and has to do with a decline in human institutions. And it’s a general response to new technology, but in previous cases it didn’t go through – the human institutions have increased – and I predict that the AI revolution will land in the same place. However, there is a turbulent transition. I call it the “Cognitive Industrial Revolution.” Not only because of the expected superpowers and superinstitutions, but as with the Industrial Revolution, the transition will be difficult. When we use techno and humanist compasses that point us towards building technology that increases human institutions, we can overcome it with less pain and more bounty.
It claims like an AI chatbot chatgpt Because of the comparison, it was a turning point when increasing the number of human agents. With AI technologies like facial recognition, predictive policing, and algorithmic surveillance, they work for With us and Not us Above We must choose to use them positively. But they still lead us towards a specific perspective, paralyze critical thinking, and of course, could overturn our work – It seems to undermine human agents. They are transformed to do their jobInformation experts need to use AI tools to do some of the work. Otherwise you’re short on tools and not competitive. And you may feel it as a loss of the agency. You don’t want to change, but you can’t choose not to do so. But then you start to see the benefits. Iterative tasks can be automated and accelerate creative processes. You get more agents, so do other people.
So, isn’t we all going out of date? I believe that AI will mostly still be copilots, but obviously some job types will disappear. We need to build technology that can help people whose jobs change their adaptation. Or, if the job is completely gone, you can find other jobs that they can learn and do with AI.
You label people who harm AI’s short-term risks and harms as “dark,” but isn’t it important to criticize new technology? yes. But if it makes sense, you need to stop or slow down significantly. It’s not helpful. This is especially true because countries that are adopting the cognitive industrial revolution early and firmly will gain a large amount of economic strength, and their values will shape the world. I want them to acquire Western democracy before others like China who are trying to embrace it through dictatorships.
You will reach a good future by piloting towards it. It’s not that we’re not paying attention to a bad future, but we do so because we’re thinking about how to navigate the right way. It adopts a repetitive unfolding stance – tests deliberately progressive versions in the real world at once to see where criticism plays and adjusts (this is how Openai unfolds ChatGpt).
Where is wealthy leadership? Democrats against Trump? Or people are lying low for fear of political retaliation You said Are you worried? Personally, I am reorganizing. For me, the point is not fighting Trump. It helps to improve humanity and society, including American society. And you may be thinking that this administration is not going to listen to my thoughts on what the government should do with AI, so I should focus on contributing elsewhere. I recently launched Manas AI, focusing on the discovery of drugs to cure cancer. He also recently became a fellow at the London School of Economics, helping AI think about how to reinvent the university.
That being said, obviously I was disappointed and deeply concerned about the various things that have happened since Trump took office, as if he had formed a seemingly alliance with Russia and Putin and resigned from an offensive cyber operation.
You’re in itFew high-tech moguls are not jointlyHeaded towards President Trump. What should we conclude about the morality of this industry? Roll back the Dei (Diversity) initiative and drop FactCheckinglike Meta did? I have a quiet friend! The tech industry should talk and take some of the clues from governments elected by Democratic votes. The fact that you happen to not like this government does not deny it. But on the other hand, frankly, there are times when something bad is happening for society. It can be easily argued that some Dei initiatives are going too far and it’s good to adjust them, but part of Dei is civil rights.
I clearly disagree with some of the moves made to remove fact checks. There are anti-Vax claims on various social networking platforms, very easily false and have a double-digit percentage of Americans who believe in various vaccine-related conspiracy theories. Such a level of disinformation within society makes it difficult for democracies to operate. LinkedIn is criticized for being boring, but it illustrates many of the things you think should be happening on social networks around fact checking.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are outside the White House. Photo: Shutterstock
How worried was it to see the “fast move, break things” technical approach applied to the US federal government by DOGE? [Elon Musk’s department of government effeciency]in some cases, do you use AI software to identify budget cuts? I think most businessmen, including myself, would think that coming up with ways to make government more efficient is a good goal. But you can do it in a more legitimate way than you do it. They are trying to fire all these professionals and rehire them. It’s a hot mess of incompetent behavior. Even if you’re doing it vigorously and quickly, there are ways to do it. They may have asked for notes about the program they were considering cutting off. “Just cancel everything and see what happens” is a path with large external costs.
You and Elon Musk were once friends. However, he condemns you and continues to repeatedly accus you of being one of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients. What you said “demons and lies” and your only involvement with Epstein, which you apologise, is to help raise funds for MIT Media Lab.Do you have any plans to take legal action? I have not filed a personal lawsuit yet. I tend to be a builder, and this kind of manufacturer and legal action is very difficult in the US. I also thought of calling for the release of the Epstein Files to unravel the truth. But do I really want to get into that tar pit? I question Yellon’s motivation for saying these things that he is given to him now in government. I think he’s trying to smear my voice down to reduce its connection with Americans.
How do you equip yourself? What advice do you have for young adults thinking about their career path? I don’t think it would prevent myself. It’s about amplifying yourself. The key is to engage with AI and learn the tools. And young people have real benefits. They tend to easily adopt new technologies, which can bring skill sets and mindsets to the workplace that can help transform the workplace.
Your previous book, Improvingis described as “written.”Reed Hoffman With chatgpt-4“And it documents the conversation with the chatbot. How much did you use AI to write this book? meanwhile [my co-author and I] Feeling that we own all the words here, we use it a lot! For research, I would like to give us the advantages and disadvantages of what we discussed in the various sections, suggesting rewriting the paragraph and giving us more zing. My recommendation for all writers is to start using AI in depth. It’s a huge intelligence amp. And the way we used it was not wholesale to say “written in ai”. It’s like saying “written on a Mac.”
How should AI be regulated? Biden’s 2023 executive order, which aimed to reduce the risk of the US closest to federal AI regulations, was rescinded by Trump, who described it as a barrier to American AI innovation. Regulations, such as deployment, must be repetitive. Certainly, regulations as we go, and now even some regulations. Biden’s executive order was right in the direction of dealing with great harm, not all the harm you could think of. But that’s not just a regulation. Feedback from customers, employees and the public is all part of steering the road here. Benchmarks and metrics are also important ways to combine non-legs of low-performance shelf algorithms.
Will it be a chatbot built on a leading partisan language model (LLM) that eschew the truth and strengthens your worldview? Obviously, it’s not good that we’re in a perfect filter bubble. And I think you’ll get some of that with some LLM. I’m a fan of identifying the principles you are training in your LLM and clarifying rational arguments for that. So: I believe this, this, and this, so I believe that I am a “confession” LLM, because I believe that people who oppose you are LLM that let you know because it is important for you to be informed. That way people will know what they are using.
The Holy Grail of Engineers to Reach Artificial General Information – AI can carry out the intellectual tasks that humans can do in cans and what many expect will be achieved by the end of the decade. Industrial Revolution? Although not necessarily, it will amplify even more. Today’s LLM allows us to do things that humans cannot do in terms of knowledge and can bring things together. Within three years the tools are sufficient, so if you don’t use them, you’ll be like an expert who doesn’t have a mobile phone. But are we talking about AGI or artificial super intelligence (ASI)? [greatly exceeding human cognitive abilities]And I think it’s at least decades away, but we should try to shape them in a way that’s good for us and in a way that’s good for society. Let’s make sure ASIS is essentially Buddhist in their values.
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Pavel Durov, founder of the messaging app Telegram, currently under investigation in France, criticized French authorities for not addressing their concerns with the company directly and described his arrest as “misguided.”
In his first comments since being detained last month, Durov refuted claims that the app was an “anarchist haven.”
The billionaire, originally from Russia, expressed surprise over the investigation as French authorities had access to a hotline he helped establish and could contact Telegram’s EU representative anytime.
“Countries typically address grievances with internet services by filing a lawsuit against the service directly,” he stated.
“Resorting to outdated laws to prosecute a CEO for actions carried out by third parties on a platform he oversees is an ineffective approach.”
While acknowledging that Telegram is not without flaws, Durov denied any misuse associated with the app.
“Claims that Telegram serves as an anarchist stronghold are baseless,” he noted. “We eliminate numerous harmful posts and channels on a daily basis.”
Durov, now a citizen of France, was detained in the country last month as part of an investigation into criminal charges related to child sexual abuse images, drug trafficking, and fraudulent activities associated with the app.
He was accused by French judicial authorities of facilitating criminal conduct through the messaging app but was released on a €5 million bail under the conditions of reporting to the police twice a week and remaining in France.
The allegations against Durov include collusion in disseminating inappropriate images of children and multiple other offenses on messaging platforms.
His sudden arrest has raised concerns about legal accountability for Telegram, a widely used app with approximately a billion users, and sparked discussions on freedom of speech and governmental restrictions.
THoused inside a glass box in the chapel on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, the “Quantum Chandelier” is the symbolic centerpiece of an ambitious effort to transform upstate New York into a tech hub — something like Silicon Valley for social media or Cambridge, Massachusetts, for biotechnology.
The silvery sci-fi object, named for the internal gold lattice that mounts, cools and isolates the processors, will be the heart of a “quantum computing system” that will herald a new era of computing. It’s the heart of Curtis Prime’s dream, co-founder of Nvidia, a $2.8 trillion artificial intelligence hardware and software company, to transform Rensselaer (RPI) into an advanced computing hub, remaking this part of upstate New York into a new Silicon Valley.
Priem has invested a significant amount of his wealth into building the Curtis Priem Quantum Constellation, a workshop where RPI students can envision the future of quantum computing. Just as his partners at Nvidia, where he served as the company’s first chief technology officer, allowed him to freely imagine the graphics chip architecture that will power the AI revolution, he hopes his investment will spark a new era of computational innovation in the region.
Prime believes the area along the Hudson Valley, from Yorktown Heights, home to IBM’s Quantum Research Institute, to Troy, home to the RPI/SUNY nanotech complex, to Syracuse, where Micron is building a massive $100 billion fab complex, will be the future home of U.S. computer technology.
To that end, he’s thinking beyond concerns about artificial intelligence and the success of Nvidia’s H100 graphics processing unit (GPU), which powers 90% of generative AI systems.
There are two RPI students on campus. Photo: Gregory Sherin
Wall Street has become skeptical of technology. AI has caused billions of dollars of losses, and Wall Street is disheartened by the idea that new technology is going to change the world. But the same thing happened with the internet overbuild of the 1990s, which went through booms and busts before eventually paying off.
In theory, quantum technology could solve in seconds problems that take today’s supercomputers decades to solve, unlocking secrets about the behavior of molecules, the genetic code, weather forecasting and, of more recent concern, cracking the encryption systems that underpin the internet.
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei believes that art that can be easily replicated by artificial intelligence is “meaningless.” He argues that even great artists like Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse would have had to reconsider their approach if AI had existed in their time.
Ai Weiwei’s views are part of the ongoing debate on the rise of AI, where data from artists’ websites is used to create “original” images in their style by AI.
Ai Weiwei expressed his concern about the focus on creating “realistic” images in art education, which he believes is rendered meaningless by AI’s ability to replicate them in seconds.
When asked whether this also applied to masters with distinct styles such as cubism, Ai Weiwei answered that “If Picasso or Matisse were still alive, they would surely quit their jobs. It would be impossible for them to still think [the same way].” He also discussed his upcoming collaboration with an AI to answer the same list of 81 questions over 81 days, a project referencing the number of days he was incarcerated by the Chinese state in 2011.
The artist also expressed concern about a future where artificial intelligence becomes so powerful that it leads to a society with only one “right” answer to significant questions, likening it to dangerous historical ideologies.
Ai Weiwei, who grew up in a forced labor camp in northwest China and has been an outspoken critic of Chinese authorities, believes in the importance of asking difficult questions as an artist, despite the potential repercussions.
He explained that it is the responsibility of artists to speak out for those without a voice and emphasized the importance of seeking inner truth through their work. Despite the risks, he remains committed to his mission of asking challenging questions and challenging those in power.
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