Best Infosec Long-Reads of the Week, 8/27/22
Thieves bilked woman in elaborate romance scam, Peruvian "socialite" who infiltrated NATO society was a GRU operative, Teens rickrolled six schools, "OSINT" Twitter accounts in India target foes
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AI safety has swiftly become Washington’s most combustible political snarl
Trump, Jensen Huang, Democratic 2028 hopefuls—and the unlikely alliance of Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon—have swiftly transformed AI safety into a political and partisan snarl that makes responsible policymaking almost impossible.
AI safety fears erupt into a global political and market crisis
Fears are rippling across global economies as Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk issue calls to slow down frontier AI development, thrusting once-fringe warnings about rogue AI into public consciousness even as Anthropic touts profitability ahead of a potentially record-setting IPO.
Spies, surveillance and rogue AI: Best infosec long reads 9/12/26
Flock’s surveillance network faces a bipartisan revolt, Did AI agents “go rogue”? Will AI make mathematicians obsolete? The case for an AI adverse-event reporting system, Shared data centers make spying easier than hacking
AI shifts from cyber assistant to attack operator, Anthropic finds
Anthropic says Russian spies, criminals and hacktivists used Claude to accelerate and automate cyberattacks, while other actors pursued potential biological weapons research, military programs and industrial-scale theft of Anthropic’s models.