Diet TBPN

OpenAI Bugging Incident, Are Your Devices Listening? Xbox Launches Remix Lab | Diet TBPN

A chatbot account associated with the engineer's spouse, which shared identifiers with his own account, submitted prompts about building and concealing a continuous audio recorder, adding Wi-Fi connectivity, listening remotely, and encrypting its memory card according to the complaint.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

OpenAI has a Muse problem

wrapped up in this heated agent race are a lot of really big ideas — about AI capability, privacy, and trust.

The a16z Show

Rebuilding the Internet for Privacy | Barrett Lyon on DoxxNet

Barrett believes the underlying protocols of the internet are due for another wave of experimentation.

The New York Times

Why the Coast Guard Is Using Surveillance Drones in the Great Lakes

We see private companies increasingly at the center of law enforcement operations that have profit incentives, carrying out surveillance of what ordinary people going about their ordinary lives are doing. And I think people inherently understand that we need law enforcement in this country, but there are natural, inborn limits to how much they watch us, how much they hover over us, how much they see us, and robots and A.I. have the potential to eviscerate those limits.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’

widespread age verification means adults will also have to show ID to use the internet, which will essentially make it impossible to be anonymous online.

The Prof G Pod

Scott Galloway on Why Capitalism Isn't the Enemy of the Poor | Office Hours

I find that in general, people talk a big game about privacy concerns, and then they will give Uber all of their data. Think about Uber. With a hack and a thin layer of AI, you could pretty easily determine if someone just terminated a pregnancy, their HIV status, if they're having affairs, their sexual orientation.

Office Hours

Scott Galloway on Why Capitalism Isn't the Enemy of the Poor | Office Hours

With a hack and a thin layer of AI, you could pretty easily determine if someone just terminated a pregnancy, their HIV status, if they're having affairs, their sexual orientation. You could just figure out a lot about people based on when and where they are going. And yet, we still give Uber all of our data because we love seeing that our QX60 is just around the corner.

TED

How to Raise Kids Who Question AI | Randi Williams | TED

The bottom line is that smart toys open a digital door into children's playtime, bedroom and hearts. And if you're thinking about opening that door, my advice to you would be to take a very careful look at what's on the other side.

TED

How Surveillance Tech Erodes Your Privacy | Jen Golbeck | TED

Data that law enforcement would require a warrant to collect if they did it directly, they now can just go buy for a few dollars from private companies with no court order and no probable cause. The surveillance allows them to circumvent the protections that we have written into law.

The Business of Tech

Unworkable: the teen social media ban

attempts to police access through clumsy age verification systems and facial recognition will just upskill teenagers in VPNs, masking technologies and hacking techniques, producing a more sophisticated generation of young cyber intruders

Book of the Day

In 'Bad Asians,' a friend group threatens its reputation with a viral video

I was trying to capture that initial innocence that we all had. The sense that you were almost in a private room with your friends rather than having it be this public forum that everyone across the world could attend.

The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

Is AI a Threat to Privacy? | Prof G Conversations

Signal is obsessed with maintaining the human right to communicate privately, and we have built an alternative communications platform that does just that.