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Facial recognition is real-life ‘Black Mirror’ stuff, Ocasio-Cortez says

January 17, 2020 0 Comments AI, alexandria ocasio-cortez, Artificial intelligence, biometrics, black mirror, facial recognition, house oversight committee, house oversight committee hearing, joy buolamwini, Law & order, Machine Learning, meredith whittaker, Privacy, surveillance, willie lynch

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:59:27 +0000

“People think they’re going to put on a cute filter and have puppy dog ears, and not realize that that data’s being collected.”<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/WEGyDh5kmBU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google voice Assistant gets new privacy ‘undo’ commands

January 9, 2020 0 Comments AI, Alexa, Android, bixby, Cortana, Google, google voice assistant, ok google, Privacy, Siri, smart speakers, voice control

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 12:02:58 +0000

Google’s controversial voice Assistant is getting a series of new commands designed to work like privacy-centric ‘undo’ buttons.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/suVe_eSbeHg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Emotion-detection in AI should be regulated, AI Now says

December 16, 2019 0 Comments affect recognition, AI, ai now, ai now institute, Artificial intelligence, BIPA, cogito, emotion detection, hirevue, Illinois, kate crawford, Law & order, Machine Learning, oxygen forensics, paul ekman

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:42:34 +0000

It’s built on junk science, yet it’s being used to determine who gets hired, fired, insured, medicated and more, the research institute says.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MWAhLktWa8c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Master Go player retires citing AI supremacy

November 29, 2019 0 Comments AI, alphago, deepmind, go, Google, korea, Machine Learning

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 10:41:32 +0000

Master Go player Lee Se-dol has handed in his stones after deciding that there’s just no way to beat a machine when playing the ancient Chinese board game.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/bWAqrK3UmqQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Deepfakes and LinkedIn: malign interference campaigns

November 20, 2019 0 Comments AI, computer generated, deepfakes, fakes, katie jones, LinkedIn, munira, Social engineering, stratcom

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Don’t discount deepfakes just yet. We may not be fooled by phony Mark Zuckerberg anymore, but the discovery of a fake LinkedIn profile sporting a deepfake avatar shows how social engineering can deceive through the mundane.

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Sophos 2020 Threat Report: AI is the new battleground

November 19, 2019 0 Comments 2020 threat report, AI, Artificial intelligence, deepfakes, Denial of Service, Machine Learning, malware, security threats, sophos, SophosLabs, Threat Report

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:41:21 +0000

The SophosLabs 2020 Threat Report highlights a growing battle as smart automation technologies continue to evolve.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MkuqFZJIxhw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple to fix Siri bug that exposed parts of encrypted emails

November 12, 2019 0 Comments AI, ai assistant, Apple, bob gendler, iOS, MacOS, Operating Systems, OS X, Privacy, security threats, Siri

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:02:06 +0000

Apple may care about your privacy but that doesn’t mean it gets it right all the time, especially when it comes to training its Siri AI assistant.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/TwQGoS3CLXs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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AI wordsmith too dangerous to be released… has been released

November 11, 2019 0 Comments AI, algorithm, Artificial intelligence, disinformation, fake news, gpt-2, Machine Learning, openai, Spam, text-generation, transformer

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:50:47 +0000

The text-generating AI has only been released in neutered forms until now, for fear it would be used to mass-produce fake news and spam.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Gp2bPEYqYs8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Pentagon publishes AI guidelines

November 4, 2019 0 Comments AI, ai weapons, Artificial intelligence, attack robots, defense innovation board, Government security, Machine Learning, pentagon, security threats, us military

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:43:59 +0000

As the specter of warrior robots looms large, the Pentagon has published a set of ethical guidelines for its use of artificial intelligence.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/QVzJCPZlr9g” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Twitter bans political ads

November 1, 2019 0 Comments AI, facebook, fake news, Machine Learning, misinformation, political ads, Social networks, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:24:43 +0000

Interesting timing: Right before Facebook’s earnings call, two weeks after Facebook said it won’t pull political ads that spout lies.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/4ojwnOWi26U” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>