If you don’t know what could go wrong, how can you avoid it?
An AI safety expert outlined a range of speculative doomsday scenarios, from weaponization to power-seeking behavior
… A recent paper authored by Dan Hendrycks, an AI safety expert and director of the Center for AI Safety, highlights a number of speculative risks posed by unchecked development of increasingly intelligent AI.
The paper advocates for the incorporation of safety and security features into the way AI systems operate, considering they are still in early stages of development.
Here are eight risks the study laid out:
(Related) Perhaps the machine is not entirely to blame?
The Great Danger With Advances in Artificial Intelligence
… because we so readily idealize the technological (in effect, make it our god), we can get things turned around completely. Caught in techno-utopian bliss, we can make machine learning what we celebrate. And that is just a start. In an odd way, machine learning becomes what we emulate. As attention spans grow shorter and shorter and we give up more and more of our attention to our devices, cognitive changes are taking place in response. Arguably, today, it is less that our machines are coming to think more like us than that we are coming to think more and more like our machines.
We let this happen at our peril. Our ultimate task as toolmakers is to be sure that we use our ever-more amazing tools intelligently and wisely. That starts with being able to distinguish ourselves and our tools clearly. Machine learning—and the ever more complex and often amazing forms it will surely take in times ahead—will provide a particularly defining test of this essential ability, one on which our survival may depend.
Religious thinking? An atheist would not have this problem. (Pray that AIs don’t get religion.)
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/04/hacking-suicide.html
Hacking Suicide
You want to commit suicide, but it’s a mortal sin: your soul goes straight to hell, forever. So what you do is murder someone. That will get you executed, but if you confess your sins to a priest beforehand you avoid hell. Problem solved.
This was actually a problem in the 17th and 18th centuries in Northern Europe, particularly Denmark. And it remained a problem until capital punishment was abolished for murder.
It’s a clever hack. I didn’t learn about it in time to put it in my book, A Hacker’s Mind, but I have several other good hacks of religious rules.
What is the tipping point for a federal law? 49?
Iowa: And then there were six – what you need to do to comply with the new Iowa Privacy Law
On 29 March 2023, Iowa became the sixth state to pass a comprehensive data privacy law (in line behind Connecticut, Utah, Virginia, Colorado, and California). The Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act (‘ICDPA’) will go into effect on 1 January 2025. While there are some familiar elements to other state laws that came before it (the law is most similar to that enacted recently in Utah) – there is still a lot that you need to do!
What are the key things for business to focus on if they are already CCPA compliant or compliant with another state privacy program? What about for businesses who are not yet compliant with any state-specific privacy regulations?
Odia Kagan and Melanie Notari, from Fox Rothschild LLP, provide an overview of some of the ICDPA’s provisions and take a look at what needs to considered in order to comply with the law.
Read their article on OneTrust Data Guidance.
(Related)
Indiana Set to Become the Seventh State with a Comprehensive Privacy Law
Kirk J. Nahra and Ali A. Jessani of WilmerHale write:
On Tuesday, April 11, the Indiana House passed Senate Bill No. 5, a comprehensive state privacy law similar to the ones that are already in effect in California, Colorado, Virginia, Utah and Connecticut. This bill previously passed (49 – 0) in the Indiana Senate on February 9. Due to minor House amendments, the House version of the bill received Senate concurrence on April 13, and now moves to the Indiana Governor’s desk for signature. If Senate Bill No. 5 is signed into law, Indiana, would join Iowa and become the second state this year to pass a comprehensive privacy law.
Unlike the Iowa bill set to go into effect in 2025, the Indiana bill would not go into effect until July 1, 2026, leaving plenty of time for amendments to current provisions. As drafted, the bill does not pose any substantive requirements for companies that do not already exist under the other six active laws. However, companies should track amendments to these proposals as there is still plenty of time for them to change before they go into effect. Further, companies should prepare to review and revise their privacy compliance program and assess whether they wish to undertake a nationwide approach and provide certain privacy rights to all US consumers.
Read more at WilmerHale.
Narrow focus privacy?
https://www.insideprivacy.com/uncategorized/washingtons-my-health-my-data-act-passes-state-senate/
Washington’s My Health My Data Act Passes State Senate
Washington’s My Health My Data Act (“HB 1155” or the “Act”), which would expand privacy protections for the health data of Washington consumers, recently passed the state Senate after advancing through the state House of Representatives. Provided that the House approves the Senate’s amendments, the Act could head to the governor’s desk for signature in the coming days and become law. The Act was introduced in response to the United States Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade. If enacted, the Act could dramatically affect how companies treat the health data of Washington residents.
This blog post summarizes a few key takeaways in the statute.
Can the UN do what the US won’t?
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/14/un_cybercrime_treaty/
Russia-pushed UN Cybercrime Treaty may rewrite global law. It's ... not great
… "We are here for the fifth session on the negotiations of this new treaty on cybercrime, which will have the potential to drastically redraft criminal law all around the world," said Thomas Lohnninger, executive director of Austria-based tech policy group Epicenter.works, in a media briefing on Thursday about the treaty negotiations.
"It represents a tectonic shift because of its global nature when it comes to the cross border access to our personal information."
The UN Cybercrime Treaty, to the extent it gets adopted, is expected to define global norms for lawful surveillance and legal processes available to investigate and prosecute cybercriminals. And what has emerged so far contemplates [PDF ] more than 30 new cybercrime offenses, with few concessions to free speech or human rights.
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