This is presented as an official position of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS or Mormons) on AI, similar to the canon presented by the Pope recently regarding the Catholic Church’s position on AI.
Weirdly enough I was wondering what Tavis Ormandy has been up to recently, as I haven't seen his name associated with any global show-stopping vulnerabilities from the Project Zero team for a while.
I miss uMatrix, too. Thank you for working on this!
How much of this could attributed to simply having less artificial hormonal support for not overeating after discontinuing treatment, and falling back into old habits? I’d love to see more research focused on these mechanisms.
My favorite manual discovery/social was Napster, for that moment that you could view other user’s entire shared music folder and use the chat function to talk to them about their tastes!
This headline BADLY buries the lede! The real scary stuff is the massive future costs of the blatant vendor lock-in that ALL the big tech firms, including Microsoft, are banking on with “free to the government for a year, undisclosed terms for later” contracts.
If this question had a reliable (and public) answer then the world would be a very different place!
That said, this is an important question. We, particularly those us who work on critical infrastructure or software, should be asking ourselves this regularly to help prevent this type of thing.
Note that it's also easy (and similarly catastrophic) to swing too far the other way and approach all unknowns with automatic paranoia. We live in a world where we have to trust strangers every day, and if we lose that option completely then our civilization grinds to a halt.
But-- vigilance is warranted. I applaud these engineers who followed their instincts and dug into this. They all did us a huge service!