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AIs as Trusted Third Parties

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academic papers, AI, cryptography, machine learning, Security technology, trust, Uncategorized

This is a truly fascinating paper: “Trusted Machine Learning Models Unlock Private Inference for Problems Currently Infeasible with Cryptography.” The basic idea is that AIs can act as trusted third parties: Abstract: We often interact with untrusted parties. Prioritization of privacy can limit the effectiveness of these interactions, as achieving certain goals necessitates sharing private … Read More “AIs as Trusted Third Parties” »

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” »

Licensing AI Engineers

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academic papers, artificial intelligence, ethics, Security technology, trust, Uncategorized

The debate over professionalizing software engineers is decades old. (The basic idea is that, like lawyers and architects, there should be some professional licensing requirement for software engineers.) Here’s a law journal article recommending the same idea for AI engineers. This Article proposes another way: professionalizing AI engineering. Require AI engineers to obtain licenses to … Read More “Licensing AI Engineers” »

Chatbots and Human Conversation

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chatbots, Internet and society, LLM, Security technology, trust, Uncategorized

For most of history, communicating with a computer has not been like communicating with a person. In their earliest years, computers required carefully constructed instructions, delivered through punch cards; then came a command-line interface, followed by menus and options and text boxes. If you wanted results, you needed to learn the computer’s language. This is … Read More “Chatbots and Human Conversation” »

OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today

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artificial intelligence, data collection, national security policy, Security technology, trust, Uncategorized

There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents. Here’s CNBC. Here’s Boing Boing. Some articles are more nuanced, but there’s still a lot of confusion. It seems not to be true. Dropbox isn’t sharing all of your documents with OpenAI. But here’s the problem: we don’t … Read More “OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today” »

The Inability to Simultaneously Verify Sentience, Location, and Identity

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academic papers, identification, Security technology, trust, Uncategorized

Really interesting “systematization of knowledge” paper: “SoK: The Ghost Trilemma” Abstract: Trolls, bots, and sybils distort online discourse and compromise the security of networked platforms. User identity is central to the vectors of attack and manipulation employed in these contexts. However it has long seemed that, try as it might, the security community has been … Read More “The Inability to Simultaneously Verify Sentience, Location, and Identity” »

The Need for Trustworthy AI

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artificial intelligence, essays, Security technology, trust, Uncategorized

If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds. When Alexa responds in this way, it’s obvious that it is putting its … Read More “The Need for Trustworthy AI” »

Hacking AI Resume Screening with Text in a White Font

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artificial intelligence, hacking, Security technology, steganography, trust, Uncategorized

The Washington Post is reporting on a hack to fool automatic resume sorting programs: putting text in a white font. The idea is that the programs rely primarily on simple pattern matching, and the trick is to copy a list of relevant keywords—or the published job description—into the resume in a white font. The computer … Read More “Hacking AI Resume Screening with Text in a White Font” »

Building Trustworthy AI

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artificial intelligence, essays, risks, Security technology, trust, Uncategorized

We will all soon get into the habit of using AI tools for help with everyday problems and tasks. We should get in the habit of questioning the motives, incentives, and capabilities behind them, too. Imagine you’re using an AI chatbot to plan a vacation. Did it suggest a particular resort because it knows your … Read More “Building Trustworthy AI” »