Category: artificial intelligence

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Using AI for Political Polling

Posted on By infossl
artificial intelligence, chatbots, democracy, LLM, Security technology, Uncategorized

Public polling is a critical function of modern political campaigns and movements, but it isn’t what it once was. Recent US election cycles have produced copious postmortems explaining both the successes and the flaws of public polling. There are two main reasons polling fails. First, nonresponse has skyrocketed. It’s radically harder to reach people than … Read More “Using AI for Political Polling” »

LLMs Acting Deceptively

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academic papers, artificial intelligence, deception, LLM, Security technology, Uncategorized

New research: “Deception abilities emerged in large language models“: Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are currently at the forefront of intertwining AI systems with human communication and everyday life. Thus, aligning them with human values is of great importance. However, given the steady increase in reasoning abilities, future LLMs are under suspicion of becoming able … Read More “LLMs Acting Deceptively” »

Online Privacy and Overfishing

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artificial intelligence, microsoft, privacy, Security technology, Uncategorized

Microsoft recently caught state-backed hackers using its generative AI tools to help with their attacks. In the security community, the immediate questions weren’t about how hackers were using the tools (that was utterly predictable), but about how Microsoft figured it out. The natural conclusion was that Microsoft was spying on its AI users, looking for … Read More “Online Privacy and Overfishing” »

AI Will Increase the Quantity—and Quality—of Phishing Scams

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artificial intelligence, LLM, phishing, Security technology, Uncategorized

A piece I coauthored with Fredrik Heiding and Arun Vishwanath in the Harvard Business Review: Summary. Gen AI tools are rapidly making these emails more advanced, harder to spot, and significantly more dangerous. Recent research showed that 60% of participants fell victim to artificial intelligence (AI)-automated phishing, which is comparable to the success rates of … Read More “AI Will Increase the Quantity—and Quality—of Phishing Scams” »

How AI Will Change Democracy

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artificial intelligence, democracy, laws, LLM, Security technology, Uncategorized

I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to predict that artificial intelligence will affect every aspect of our society. Not by doing new things. But mostly by doing things that are already being done by humans, perfectly competently. Replacing humans with AIs isn’t necessarily interesting. But when an AI takes over a human task, the task … Read More “How AI Will Change Democracy” »

Personal AI Assistants and Privacy

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artificial intelligence, microsoft, privacy, Security technology, trust, Uncategorized

Microsoft is trying to create a personal digital assistant: At a Build conference event on Monday, Microsoft revealed a new AI-powered feature called “Recall” for Copilot+ PCs that will allow Windows 11 users to search and retrieve their past activities on their PC. To make it work, Recall records everything users do on their PC, … Read More “Personal AI Assistants and Privacy” »

New Attack Against Self-Driving Car AI

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academic papers, artificial intelligence, cars, cyberattack, Security technology, side-channel attacks, Uncategorized

This is another attack that convinces the AI to ignore road signs: Due to the way CMOS cameras operate, rapidly changing light from fast flashing diodes can be used to vary the color. For example, the shade of red on a stop sign could look different on each line depending on the time between the … Read More “New Attack Against Self-Driving Car AI” »

How Criminals Are Using Generative AI

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artificial intelligence, cybercrime, LLM, Security technology, Uncategorized

There’s a new report on how criminals are using generative AI tools: Key Takeaways: Adoption rates of AI technologies among criminals lag behind the rates of their industry counterparts because of the evolving nature of cybercrime. Compared to last year, criminals seem to have abandoned any attempt at training real criminal large language models (LLMs). … Read More “How Criminals Are Using Generative AI” »

The Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization

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artificial intelligence, essays, search engines, Security technology, Uncategorized

The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary accomplishment and treasure it is. In just a few decades, much of human knowledge has been collectively written up and made available to anyone with an internet connection. But all of this is coming to an end. … Read More “The Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization” »