Technology

Enjoy your access to this technology before the bigger players do something that “disrupts” your capability to:

• Use electricity
• Afford computers
• Have time to think about stuff other than food & shelter
• Get access to medicine
• Discern truth from fiction for anything you’re not directly experiencing

We’re on a razor’s edge balanced between dystopia and a sci-fi dream, and we keep getting pushed in the wrong direction by the tech debt and social/economic conventions of the 20th century. We need to tool up while we remain in this transitional phase. It might be very bad later. There’s a chance it might be awesome too. Expect the worst, hope for the best.

Mr. Schneier makes a good point here. IT people are used to be confronted with bugs and to deal with them. All the other systems are not.

I have said for years that politics share a lot with coding, and that they should think about adopting methods that have been proven in software development. Like logging all changes of a law in a repository so it can easily be seen who changed what.

They probably don't sell mythos because they can't afford to do so at the same, heavily subsidized cost. They're already burning more money than they generate, and the only way the continue to have cash at all is from fund raising. Selling AI is massively unprofitable. Mythos surely consumes even more resources than Opus, and they probably see that it'll make them go broke even faster than their current trajectory will.

As AI is leaned on more and more to patch and defend against vulnerabilities, the value in sneaking back door logic into the models or finding vulnerabilities in the models themselves will increase.

This is one of the reasons for the sharp increase in CI/CD attacks currently; instead of targeting the deployed software, attackers are now targeting the development pipeline where they know there’s minimal human oversight and a lot of security protections are intentionally disabled.

It is the real world Skynet from Terminator universe.