Imagine calling an AI as a witness...

https://www.wired.com/story/icc-cyberwar-crimes/

The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes

And the first case on the docket may well be Russia’s cyberattacks against civilian critical infrastructure in Ukraine.

FOR YEARS, SOME cybersecurity defenders and advocates have called for a kind of Geneva Convention for cyberwar, new international laws that would create clear consequences for anyone hacking civilian critical infrastructure, like power grids, banks, and hospitals. Now the lead prosecutor of the International Criminal Court at the Hague has made it clear that he intends to enforce those consequences—no new Geneva Convention required. Instead, he has explicitly stated for the first time that the Hague will investigate and prosecute any hacking crimes that violate existing international law, just as it does for war crimes committed in the physical world.

In a little-noticed article released last month in the quarterly publication Foreign Policy Analytics, the International Criminal Court’s lead prosecutor, Karim Khan, spelled out that new commitment: His office will investigate cybercrimes that potentially violate the Rome Statute, the treaty that defines the court’s authority to prosecute illegal acts, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Rather long article. Rather interesting.

https://www.pogowasright.org/montanas-new-genetic-privacy-law-caps-off-ten-years-of-innovative-state-privacy-protections/

Montana’s New Genetic Privacy Law Caps Off Ten Years of Innovative State Privacy Protections

Jennifer Lynch of EFF writes:

Over the last 10+ years, Montana has, with little fanfare or national attention, steadily pushed to protect its residents’ privacy interests through sensible laws that recognize the unique threats posed by new technologies. Now Montana has passed one of the nation’s most protective consumer genetic privacy laws—the Genetic Information Privacy Act. Could this law and the state’s bipartisan approach become a model for the rest of the country?

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… This article was originally published at EFF.

Still a long way from general adoption? Perhaps the ‘messing around’ people should lose their jobs first?

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-chatgpt-in-workplace-used-for-fun-salesforce-survey-2023-9

ChatGPT skills could help land your next job — but most people are still using AI just for fun, a new survey finds

Knowing how to use OpenAI's ChatGPT may help you land your next job. Still, some users of the AI chatbot may not be taking it all that seriously, a new study from Salesforce suggests.

Earlier this month, the San Francisco-based cloud giant surveyed more than 4,000 people across the US, UK, Australia, and India — from Gen Zers to Boomers — on how they use generative AI technologies like ChatGPT, AI-art generator DALL-E, and any deep-learning model that is able to produce audio, code, simulations, and videos, a Salesforce spokesperson told Insider.

While the study found that many generative AI users are eager to use the technology for work purposes, the most popular response — chosen by 38% of all age groups — was that it's simply being used for "fun" or "messing around." (That compares to 17% of all age groups who said they're using AI for job searching.)

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https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-traffic-slips-again-third-month-row-2023-09-07/

Exclusive: ChatGPT traffic slips again for third month in a row

… Worldwide desktop and mobile website visits to the ChatGPT website decreased by 3.2% to 1.43 billion in August, following approximately 10% drops from each of the previous two months. The amount of time visitors spent on the website has also been declining monthly since March, from an average of 8.7 minutes on site to 7 minutes on site in August.