• South Korea's Yoon warns of tech threat to democracy at summit

    (1st UPDATE) 'Fake news and disinformation based on artificial intelligence and digital technology not only violates individual freedom and human rights but also threatens democratic systems,' South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says

  • Gemini's flawed AI racial images seen as warning of tech titans' power

    For people at the trend-setting tech festival here, the scandal that erupted after Google's Gemini chatbot cranked out images of Black and Asian Nazi soldiers was seen as a warning about the power artificial intelligence can give tech titans.Google CEO Sundar Pichai last month slammed as completely unacceptable errors by his company's Gemini AI app, after gaffes such as the images of ethnically diverse Nazi troops forced it to temporarily stop users from creating pictures of people.Social...

  • Craig Martell, outgoing Pentagon AI chief, criticizes tech companies hyping AI 'magic'

    The Pentagon’s departing artificial intelligence chief is offering a parting warning against tech companies’ claims that powerful new AI tools can serve as the solution to, or the cause of, existential problems.

  • MISD investigating threats toward district leaders

    MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) - Midland ISD received an email containing threats against the Board of Trustees and an MISD administrator early Friday morning. At about 3:39pm, MISD released the following statement: Early today, an email containing threats against members of the Midland ISD School Board as well as an MISD administrator was sent. Police were []

    • CNN

    Stavridis: Americans should be ‘mindful’ of potential AI threats

    A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an “extinction-level threat” to humans, and that the US must intervene. “I think we should be mindful of it,” says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, “there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity.”

  • US Treasury Warns of AI Dangers in the Financial Sector

    The Treasury Department is sounding the alarm on cybersecurity risks posed by the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the financial services sector. A new report Wednesday (March 27) highlights potential dangers and calls for urgent collaboration between government and industry to safeguard financial stability. The report, mandated by a Biden administration executive order, focuses on […]

  • ISIS threat to US after Moscow attack, warn Senators

    Tom Cotton and Marco Rubio, two Republican senators, said on Sunday that following the attack on a concert hall in Moscow, they are concerned about ISIS’s ability to carry out terrorist attacks in the United States against its citizens. Cotton said this situation “reflects the failure of the Afghan exit policy.” ISIS’s Khorasan branch carried […]

  • UN warns against thirsty tech to solve water crisis

    The world needs to better manage its freshwater resources but thirsty new technologies touted as solutions could lead to serious problems if left unchecked, a UN report warned Friday.Roughly half of the planet's population is facing grave water shortages, with climate change-linked droughts affecting more than 1.4 billion people between 2002 and 2021, the report for the UN cultural agency UNESCO said.As of 2022, more than 2 billion people were without access to safely managed drinking water,...

    • ZDNet

    AI is changing cybersecurity and businesses must wake up to the threat

    Corporate boardrooms must become better coordinated and urgent when they address cybersecurity issues, as threat actors turn to artificial intelligence (AI) to improve their game. A board's primary role is to grow and safeguard the company's interests alongside its management team. With digital so integral in many organizations today, cybersecurity must form part of a board's growth strategy, Clifford Capital chairman Sanjiv Misra said during a panel discussion at Istari Global's Charter...

  • Why adversarial AI is the cyber threat no one sees coming

    HiddenLayer's AI Threat Landscape Report provides a critical analysis of the risks faced by AI-based systems and the advancements being made in securing AI and MLOps pipelines.

  • Salman Rushdie: AI Only Poses Threat To Unoriginal Writers

    Artificial intelligence tools may pose a threat to writers of thrillers and science fiction, but lack the originality and humour to challenge serious novelists, Salman Rushdie wrote in a French journal published Thursday.In an article translated into French for literary journal La Nouvelle Revue Francaise (NRF), Rushdie said he tested ChatGPT by asking it to write 200 words in his style.He describes the results as "a bunch of nonsense"."No reader who had read a single page of mine could think I...

  • Salman Rushdie: AI only poses threat to unoriginal writers

    Artificial intelligence tools may pose a threat to writers of thrillers and science fiction, but lack the originality and humour to challenge serious novelists, Salman Rushdie wrote in a French journal