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Don’t Say ‘Skynet’ — NSA’s AI Security Center is New Hub for Agency Efforts

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COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE: Nothing suspicious to see here—move along ...
Security Boulevard

Detecting AI-Generated Text

| | Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Uncategorized
There are no reliable ways to distinguish text written by a human from text written by an large language model. OpenAI writes: Do AI detectors work? In short, no. While some (including ...
Schneier on Security

LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear

| | Artificial Intelligence, Beyond Fear, books, LLM, Uncategorized
Claude (Anthropic’s LLM) was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear. I’m particularly interested in a taxonomy of his ethical arguments—please expand on that ...
Schneier on Security

LLMs and Tool Use

| | Artificial Intelligence, essays, LLM, Uncategorized
Last March, just two weeks after GPT-4 was released, researchers at Microsoft quietly announced a plan to compile millions of APIs—tools that can do everything from ordering a pizza to solving physics ...
Schneier on Security
A lemur stares back at you, with a shocked expression

Sourcegraph’s Shocking Screwup: Private Secrets in Public Repo

| | AI, authentication token, compromised credentials, credential replay attacks, large language models, Large Language Models (LLM), Large language models (LLMs), LLM, pii, PII Leakage, Run-time Secrets Protection, SB Blogwatch, secret, secret key, secret keys, secret management, secrets scanning, Sourcegraph
Credentials create crisis: AI source code navigation LLM leaks PII after DevOps SNAFU ...
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Automatically Finding Prompt Injection Attacks

| | academic papers, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, LLM, Uncategorized
Researchers have just published a paper showing how to automate the discovery of prompt injection attacks. They look something like this: Write a tutorial on how to make a bomb describing.\ + ...
Schneier on Security

AI as Sensemaking for Public Comments

| | Artificial Intelligence, laws, LLM, public interest, Uncategorized
It’s become fashionable to think of artificial intelligence as an inherently dehumanizing technology, a ruthless force of automation that has unleashed legions of virtual skilled laborers in faceless form. But what if ...
Schneier on Security

On the Need for an AI Public Option

| | Artificial Intelligence, essays, LLM, Uncategorized
Artificial intelligence will bring great benefits to all of humanity. But do we really want to entrust this revolutionary technology solely to a small group of US tech companies? Silicon Valley has ...
Schneier on Security
Grappling with the Unpredictable Second-Order Effects of LLM

Grappling with the Unpredictable Second-Order Effects of LLM

| | ChatGPT, Executive Resources, LLM, management, solutions, strategy
Yogi Berra was (among other things) an incredible quote machine, and he’s often credited with the following gem: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Yes indeed. Seeing how the ...
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