Wednesday, May 24, 2023

It is possible that all future fraud trials will have at least this much evidence. Lawyers will need a ChatGPT just to find the key points.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/technology/ftx-evidence-sam-bankman-fried.html

Emails, Chat Logs, Code and a Notebook: The Mountain of FTX Evidence

Prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency exchange’s founder, have accumulated more than six million pages of documents and other records.





And we’re not even talking the ‘self driving’ ones…

https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/23/e/connected-car-cyber-risk.html

How Connected Car Cyber Risk will Evolve

Automobiles are increasingly more akin to powerful computers on wheels than they are traditional vehicles. They’re estimated to contain over 100 million lines of code. Compare that to an average passenger plane, which has just 15 million. Yet just as this smart functionality can enhance the driving experience and even improve car safety, it also opens the door to hackers.

So where are these cyber threats most pronounced? We believe a key area of risk for manufacturers and drivers is the vehicle user account. By hijacking or stealing such an account via phishing for credentials or installing malware, a cyber-criminal could locate the car, break into it and potentially sell it on for parts or follow-on crimes. They might even be able to locate the owner’s home address and target it for burglary when they’re not in. It’s a crossover between cyber and physical crime which we’ve seen before with ATM break-ins.





More to compare.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/05/indiana-iowa-and-tennessee-pass-comprehensive-privacy-laws.html

Indiana, Iowa, and Tennessee Pass Comprehensive Privacy Laws

It’s been a big month for US data privacy. Indiana, Iowa, and Tennessee all passed state privacy laws, bringing the total number of states with a privacy law up to eight. No private right of action in any of those, which means it’s up to the states to enforce the laws.





What would you do if your every need was satisfied by AI?

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/05/23/what-would-humans-do-in-a-world-of-super-ai

What would humans do in a world of super-AI?

A thought experiment based on economic principles

In “wall-e”, a film that came out in 2008, humans live in what could be described as a world of fully automated luxury communism. Artificially intelligent robots, which take wonderfully diverse forms, are responsible for all productive labour. People get fat, hover in armchairs and watch television. The “Culture” series by Iain M. Banks, a Scottish novelist, goes further still, considering a world in which ai has grown sufficiently powerful as to be superintelligent—operating far beyond anything now foreseeable. The books are a favourite of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, the bosses of Amazon and Tesla. In the world spun by Banks, scarcity is a thing of the past and ai “minds” direct most production. Instead, humans turn to art, explore the cultures of the vast universe and indulge in straightforwardly hedonistic pleasures.





Why assume this would be a bad thing?

https://www.bespacific.com/evolving-law-in-ais-handts-preliminary-experiments-thoughts-observations-on-the-basis-of-chat-gpt/

Evolving Law in AI’s Hands? – Preliminary Experiments, Thoughts, Observations on the Basis of Chat GPT

Barth, Fabian, Evolving Law in AI’s Hands? – Preliminary Experiments, Thoughts and Observations on the Basis of Chat GPT (April 27, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4431234 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4431234

Everyone operating in the field of law contributes to its evolution. That applies not only to judges, but also to advisors and academics who, collectively, form and inform our understanding of what the law is. If Artificial Intelligence is used for legal tasks, for example for providing legal advice, it may therefore also influence said evolution. This article explores, based on preliminary experiments and assessments, whether that influence exists and if it could be detrimental to the evolution of the law. In particular, it shall be investigated whether there is a risk that Artificial Intelligence could unintendedly change the law without human influence, therefore effectively creating rules governing human society with insufficient human control.”



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