Ethics/Legal/Security AI News: Week Ending 04/05/2024

April 6, 2024

“One of the most impressive (and concerning) demos of AI security I’ve seen. If your company uses pip or npm you’re not just bugged, you’re bug bug bug bugged bugged bugged bugged hundreds of times after every update. Snyk/npmregistry DON’T catch most of these Yes you. Your data.” / X – https://twitter.com/nisten/status/1774424170664689720

Why OpenAI and Other Data-Hungry AI Companies Need a Bigger Internet – WSJ – https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-training-data-synthetic-openai-anthropic-9230f8d8?st=sl7o5mume69fmvm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Lumana launches new AI video surveillance system | Security Systems News – https://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/lumana-launches-new-ai-video-surveillance-system

“In a lot of other models, Arabic/اللغة العربية (and other non-English languages) are more expensive to use because the tokenizer basically punishes other languages by requiring a lot more tokens to represent their text. Command R+ improves the tokenization, requiring less tokens…” / X – https://twitter.com/JayAlammar/status/1775928159784915229

Showing AI just 1000 extra images reduced AI-generated stereotypes | New Scientist – https://www.newscientist.com/article/2425065-showing-ai-just-1000-extra-images-reduced-ai-generated-stereotypes/

World War II museum uses AI to let visitors chat with survivors – The Washington Post – https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/03/30/world-war-ii-museum-ai-veterans-survivors/

“New Anthropic research paper: Many-shot jailbreaking. We study a long-context jailbreaking technique that is effective on most large language models, including those developed by Anthropic and many of our peers. Read our blog post and the paper here: https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1775211248239464837

Many-shot jailbreaking \ Anthropic – https://www.anthropic.com/research/many-shot-jailbreaking

“This is the most effective, reliable, and hard to train away jailbreak I know of. It’s also principled (based on in-context learning) and predictably gets worse with model scale and context length.” / X – https://twitter.com/EthanJPerez/status/1775230994087543155

“Recent research justifies a concern that AI could escape our control and cause human extinction. Very advanced long-term planning agents, if they’re ever made, are a particularly concerning kind of future AI. Our paper on what governments should do just came out in Science.🧵 https://twitter.com/Michael05156007/status/1776016937526726826

Big Tech companies form new consortium to allay fears of AI job takeovers | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/04/big-tech-companies-form-new-consortium-to-allay-fears-of-ai-job-takeovers/

“To get AI to work well for you, you need to treat it like a person, even though it isn’t. I wrote about the necessity, and risks, of anthropomorphizing AI. https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1774088360996347994

“Interesting paper argues that scale is all you need to explain humanity’s unique levels of intelligence. “We propose that global, genetic differences in learning and memory are sufficient to account for uniquely human reasoning across domains,” https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1776608303453224978

“New jailbreaking technique: pure repetition. AIs are getting big context windows, it turns out if you fill a lot of it with examples of bad behavior, the AI becomes much more willing to breach its own guardrails. Security people are used to rules-based systems. This is weirder. https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1775213008215523512

US, Japan to call for deeper cooperation in AI, semiconductors, Asahi says | Reuters – https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-japan-call-deeper-cooperation-ai-semiconductors-asahi-says-2024-03-29/

Google to Fight Cookie Hijacking With Encryption Keys for Chrome Browser | PCMag – BIGGER DEAL = LOGIN IS A HEAD OF A PIN https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-to-fight-cookie-hijacking-with-encryption-keys-for-chrome-browser

Sam Altman gives up control of OpenAI Startup Fund, resolving unusual corporate venture structure | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/01/sam-altman-gives-up-control-of-openai-startup-fund-resolving-unusual-corporate-venture-structure/

U.S., U.K. Announce Partnership to Safety Test AI Models | TIME – https://time.com/6962503/ai-artificial-intelligence-uk-us-safety/

YouTube Says OpenAI Training Sora With Its Videos Would Break Rules – https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/youtube-says-openai-training-sora-185454534.html

The Orb was built to give individuals a way to prove their humanness online with maximum privacy and security. Now, the core components of the Orb’s software are publicly available on GitHub under an MIT/Apache 2.0 dual license. For more context on why open sourcing the Orb matters, see the hardware section of the Worldcoin Tech Tree.

https://worldcoin.org/blog/engineering/worldcoin-foundation-open-sources-core-components-orb-software

Where AI Thrives, Religion May Struggle | Chicago Booth Review – https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/where-ai-thrives-religion-may-struggle

“New paper finds GPT-4 is very good at pricing, acting as an agent to get a merchant the best price. In fact, it is a little too good. When it is possible to establish an oligarchy, LLM agents spontaneously collude on pricing to the detriment of customers! https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1776048369112117703

“It is remarkable how people are willing to turn over their most intimate & personal writing tasks to AI first. People often tell me their first use of ChatGPT was for wedding toasts or a story for their kids or condolence note I wouldn’t have expected that as the first use case” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1775261646623309828

Nobody Knows How to Safety-Test AI | TIME – https://time.com/6958868/artificial-intelligence-safety-evaluations-risks/

Taiwan Earthquake Puts TSMC Advanced Chips Production At Risk – Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-03/how-taiwan-quake-puts-world-s-most-advanced-chips-at-risk

George Carlin Estate Settles AI-Made Comedy Special Lawsuit (1) – https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/george-carlin-estate-settles-ai-deepfake-suit-against-podcasters

Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish, Katy Perry and other musicians sign letter against irresponsible AI | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/02/nicki-minaj-billie-eilish-katy-perry-and-other-musicians-sign-letter-against-irresponsible-ai/

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