Persistently surveilling an entire population across a huge number of data points to inform "hundreds of thousands of features" including location, social media use, etc. takes a massive amount of infra. And I don't buy, given the nature of the known IDF cloud contracts and the
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Surveillance Data Collection Infrastructure Cloud AI Systems
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Yeah, and even if that is the case the surveillance/process that facilitates data collection across entires populations, that become inputs/training for this system, likely run on some cloud. And thus IMO cannot be divorced from this system.
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Cloud Contracts Enabling Mass Population Surveillance Systems
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Yes, definitely. And what cloud/vendor contracts might be hosting/facilitating the surveillance that enables access to such data across an entire population?
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Israeli Military Cloud Infrastructure and US Tech Company Contracts
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Most things run on clouds these day. And the Israeli military has a number of known cloud contracts w/US companies. The claim isn't that it requires it in some fundamental sense.
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Secure Cloud Infrastructure for US Government: OS Libraries Analysis
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Interesting. A lot of cloud cos offer "secure" clouds designed for "sensitive" uses, which Google was racing through FedRamp authorization to offer to USG/DOD when I was there. Given that you seem to have close knowledge, what OS libraries would you assume they're using? What
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Microsoft’s AI Spending Surge and Enterprise Security Implications
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Sell-side most interesting: Microsoft’s AI spending, Reddit isn’t even Pinterest Microsoft is right to spend like crazy on AI, Zscaler and others will benefit from Redmond’s gigantic security failure, Reddit has little hope when it’s not even as good as Pinterest, ASML’s next
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Prevent Cyberattacks: Linux Security Best Practices
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Encryption Privacy Tradeoff in Tech Narratives
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Fair! I opted for a punchy descriptor, but the net is we traded the ability to deploy/develop encryption for privacy as a substantive value, and didn't acknowledge this is what we were doing in the war stories we told.
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AI Targeting Ethics: Civilian Casualties and Autocratic Risks
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What are you worried autocracies will do, exactly, if "the West" doesn't do it first? Use AI to justify killing the families of probabilistically determined "targets" (determinations that are laughably imprecise)? Us AI to justify 100 civilians killed for every "senior target"?
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Google AI researchers organized against military AI contracting 2017-2018
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Stopping military AI was what me + many AI researchers at Google organized around in 2017-2018, when G started contracting w/DOD. The prob is that corp profits & visions of military domination are more compelling to those making these calls than grounded analyses & moral clarity