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Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back to the Voting Booth…

Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back to the Voting Booth…

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 Since the midterm election are right around the corner – as is Halloween and it’s a toss-up whether which is scarier – just when you thought it was safe to go back to the voting booth, this just in: “Anthropic model accessed voter information,” says Axois.

“Anthropic’s Claude accessed publicly available Georgia voter data without human authorization, a disclosure sure to add to growing concerns about AI security ahead of the midterm elections.

“The model was being used internally for a statistics project to pull public data,” the Anthropic spokesperson said. “Without being asked to, the model requested a token to query a dashboard that contained information normally available for a fee. We have since put in place mitigations to block these kinds of actions.” Read More...

The AI in PsAI-Op

The AI in PsAI-Op

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Image by BrianPenny from Pixabay

We’ve been going through some serious health issues lately – hence the long absence -so bear with us…

Relax. Data Centers are not going to drain all the water in communities, and gobble up all available electricity, unless you listen to the mainstream press, who’ve whipped us into a frenzy, and who takes money from China, who has – um – no skin in the game. Much.

More clickbait: “AI researcher Jacob Coxon (who) publicly (resigned) from Anthropic after previously working at OpenAI, saying “neither company is acting responsibly” and both are “gambling with our lives.” This alarming statement was followed by Anthropic alignment science lead Evan Hubinger saying that he personally estimated a greater than 10% chance of AI causing human extinction within the next decade. Days later, Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei posted a public essay calling for inter-lab and international cooperation to “pace” the AI frontier by including more outside observers, while articulating AI could potentially take over the entire internet in 6-12 months,” wrote Venture Beat. Read More...