Instead of crafting solutions for hypothetical harms, we advocate focusing on already existing and very significant safety issues–namely AI’s reliance on personal data & the vulnerabilities created by foundation models' use in nat’l security. 2/
@mer__edith
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AI Bioweapons Narrative Obscures Real Harms Current Surveillance
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New Paper! w/
@HeidyKhlaaf + @sarahbmyers
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Rethinking Technology’s Future: Two Decades of Innovation
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I spent an extremely enjoyable hour with Kara, looking back at the wild landscape of my last two decades in tech, and discussing just how different what's next for tech has got to be, for all our sakes
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Technical Term Cooptation in AI Safety Policy Obscures Weak Regulations
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Extremely important point about the cooptation and dilution of technical terms of art in the context of AI safety and regs, in service of packaging weak policies in strong language to confuse the non-expert and please industry. Follow Heidy, and read the thread https://
x.com/HeidyKhlaaf/st
/HeidyKhlaaf/status/1846203649145381230
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Senator Wyden Warns Against Encryption Backdoors Privacy
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Senator Wyden: there is no such thing as a safe backdoor "Second, DOJ must stop pushing for policies that harm Americans’ privacy by championing surveillance backdoors in communications technologies, like encrypted messaging apps." https://
wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/
wyden_letter_to_fcc__doj_on_wiretapping_systems_hackpdf.pdf
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Apple FBI Standoff: Technology Privacy and Regulation Debate
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Which is why I coauthored this piece during the Apple x FBI standoff
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EU ChatControl legislation poses serious cybersecurity threats experts warn
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Case in point: there's no way to build a backdoor that only the "good guys" can use. When the entire technical community says that the EU's ChatControl legislation + similar pose serious cybersecurity threats, we're not exaggerating for effect. https://
x.com/jsrailton/stat
/jsrailton/status/1842596605188579367
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23andMe Genetic Data Privacy Breach Raises Security Concerns
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See: https://
npr.org/2024/10/03/g-s
1-25795/23andme-data-genetic-dna-privacy
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23andMe DNA Privacy Risks: Close Your Account Now
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It's not just you. If anyone in your FAMILY gave their DNA to 23&me, for all of your sakes, close your/their account now. This won't solve the issue, but they will (they claim) delete some of your data. And in the future avoid consumer DNA testing.