A long and somewhat scary post…

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/04/when-ais-start-hacking.html

When AIs Start Hacking

If you don’t have enough to worry about already, consider a world where AIs are hackers.

Hacking is as old as humanity.  We are creative problem solvers.  We exploit loopholes, manipulate systems, and strive for more influence, power, and wealth.  To date, hacking has exclusively been a human activity.  Not for long.

As I lay out in a report I just published, artificial intelligence will eventually find vulnerabilities in all sorts of social, economic, and political systems, and then exploit them at unprecedented speed, scale, and scope.  After hacking humanity, AI systems will then hack other AI systems, and humans will be little more than collateral damage.

 

 

Worth reading…

https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/26/jeremy_fleming_gchq_china_warning/

GCHQ boss warns China can rewrite 'the global operating system' in its own authoritarian image

The director of the UK's signals intelligence agency has delivered a speech in which he contemplated power in the digital age, observing that "China's size and technological weight means that it has the potential to control the global operating system," and hinting at an expanded role for the agency he leads as one way to fight back.

GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming on Friday delivered the 2021 Vincent Briscoe Lecture for the Institute for Security, Science and Technology, and opened with an observation that humans love to connect to each other, that digital connectivity continues to become more pervasive and important, and that Britain is "a big animal in the digital world."

 

 

Looks useful.

https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/technology/1059776/artificial-intelligence-comparative-guide

United States: Artificial Intelligence Comparative Guide

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1 Legal and enforcement framework

1.1 In broad terms, which legislative and regulatory provisions govern AI in your jurisdiction?

1.2 How is established or 'background' law evolving to cover AI in your jurisdiction?

1.3 Is there a general duty in your jurisdiction to take reasonable care (like the tort of negligence in the United Kingdom) when using AI?

1.4 For robots and other mobile AI, is the general law (eg, in the United Kingdom, the torts of nuisance and 'escape' and (statutory) strict liability for animals) applicable by analogy in your jurisdiction?

 

 

NFTs are hot right now…

https://www.bespacific.com/non-fungible-tokens-force-a-copyright-reckoning/

Non-Fungible Tokens Force a Copyright Reckoning

IP Watchdog: “NFTs may actually mark the new era in online content; an era where we eventually see every digital copy tagged with a serial number to trace and prosecute counterfeiting…. From the advent of the internet, digital commodities and technologies have ceaselessly presented new hurdles for intellectual property (IP) owners and protectors.  The cycle of copyright law trying, and generally failing, to adapt and keep pace with emerging technology has meant copyright stakeholders have been always at a disadvantage because legal enforcement lagged so far behind innovative infringement.  But during a year in which vast swaths of life moved online, the internet has forged and driven to prominence a powerful new tool for protecting copyright owners’ unique assets: the non-fungible token (NFT)…”

 

 

Worth considering?

https://www.bespacific.com/adding-information-from-your-law-blog-to-wikipedia/

Adding information from your law blog to Wikipedia

Kevin O’Keefe – Lexblog: “via an existing entry or a footnote makes good sense. Contributing to the advancement of the law.

• Making reliable and credible legal information more accessible to legal professions and the public.
• Wikipedia appears on page one of Google’s search results forty-six percent of the time.
• Others are citing legal blogs, and perhaps yours, for Wikipedia entries and footnotes.
• Law blogs are a leading source on many subjects.
• Increases stature as a reliable authority.
• Law firms and legal marketing professionals scramble to get their blogs and blogs seen in any number of places. Some worthwhile, some not.
• Wikpedia is twelve percent of the Internet. It dwarfs any other source…”

 

 

Toys for shut-ins?

https://www.bespacific.com/3d-print-18000-famous-sculptures-statues-artworks/

3D Print 18,000 Famous Sculptures, Statues & Artworks

Open Culture – 3D Print 18,000 Famous Sculptures, Statues & Artworks: Rodin’s Thinker, Michelangelo’s David & More: “…Items that took the ancients untold hours to sculpt from marble and stone can be reproduced in considerably less time, provided you’ve got the technology and the know-how to use it.  Since we last wrote about this free, open source initiative in 2017, Scan the World has added Google Arts and Culture to the many cultural institutions with whom it partners, expanding both its audience and the audience of the museums who allow items in their collections to be scanned prior to 3D printing…”

 

 

Injuries in an empty workplace?

https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-04-26