Privacy Foundation seminar Generative AI in Law Practice and Legal Education Friday, October 23^rd from Noon – 2PM University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, Room 412

Speakers: Justice Maria E. Berkenkotter, Colorado Supreme Court Judge Lino S. Lipinsky de Orlov, Colorado Court of Appeals

Think of it as childish pranks aided by criminal adults…

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/21/ai-has-potential-to-turn-script-kiddies-into-sophisticated-infrastructure-attackers/5304297

AI has 'potential' to turn script kiddies into sophisticated infrastructure attackers

When it comes to cyberattacks that shut down power grids, drinking-water systems, and other critical infrastructure, AI doesn’t – yet – turn script kiddies into sophisticated, nation-state attackers. But “the potential is there,” according to operational technology (OT) security experts.

"One thing that we've relied on for years is security by obscurity when it comes to utilities," said Steve Swick, former chief information security officer at American Electric Power. "The knowledge needed to do some of that stuff is getting less likely to be necessary," Swick added during a media panel ahead of the publication of Frenos' State of AI in Security report.

… “Basic access can recon documentation, and distill through that documentation very quickly to find out critical design features of your plant and facility,” said Paul Shaver, head of OT at Armadin, during the panel. “I can download the manual for almost any automation controller, parse through that very quickly, and come up with ways that I can exploit a dedicated feature of something that was not secure by design.”

Think, rethink, counter-think, etc.

https://arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/whats-left-for-us-after-ai-chinas

What’s left for us after AI? China’s thinkers have very different answers

This is perhaps one of the great ironies of our time: China is increasingly shaping the future of AI, yet very few people in the West have the faintest idea how its key thinkers see it - its philosophers, sociologists or ethicists.

… Have you, for instance, ever heard of Zhao Tingyang? Probably not, and yet he may be the most original thinker on AI you’ve never read. He’s one of China’s most prominent philosophers, at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. While Silicon Valley spends billions trying to make AI share our values, he for one argues that doing so “may very well be a suicidal mistake”.

… Or take Liu Yongmou, a philosopher of technology at Renmin University in Beijing. His thinking is almost the opposite of ours. Where we fear machines that become more and more like us, he says that “humanity’s biggest problem is the machinization of humans, not the humanization of machines”