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DefCon Chronicles: Sven Cattell’s AI Village, ‘Hack the Future’ Pentest and His Unique Vision of Deep Learning and Cybersecurity

Ralph Losey

Sven Cattell, shown above, is the founder of a key event at DefCon 31, the AI Village. The Village attracted thousands of people eager to take part in its Hack The Future challenge. At the Village I rubbed shoulders with hackers from all over the world. We all wanted to be a part of this, to find and exploit various AI anomalies. We all wanted to try out the AI pentest ourselves, because hands-on learning is what true hackers are all about.

Thousands of hackers showed up to pentest AI, even though that meant waiting in line for an hour or more. Once seated, they only had 50 minutes in the timed contest. Still, they came and waited anyway, some many times, including, we’ve heard, the three winners. This event, and a series of AI Village seminars in a small room next to it, had been pushed by both DefCon and President Biden’s top science advisors. It was the first public contest designed to advance scientific knowledge of the vulnerabilities of generative AI.

Ethical Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence Research

Ralph Losey

The most complete set of AI ethics developed to date, the twenty-three Asilomar Principles, was created by the Future of Life Institute in early 2017 at their Asilomar Conference. Ninety percent or more of the attendees at the conference had to Read More …

Moravec’s Paradox of Artificial Intelligence and a Possible Solution by Hiroshi Yamakawa with Interesting Ethical Implications

Ralph Losey

Have you heard of Moravec’s Paradox? This is a principle discovered by AI robotics expert Hans Moravec in the 1980s. He discovered that, contrary to traditional assumptions, high-level reasoning requires relatively little computation power, whereas low-level sensorimotor skills require enormous Read More …

New Draft Principles of AI Ethics Proposed by the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Election Hijacking by Secret AIs Posing as Real People

Ralph Losey

One of the activities of AI-Ethics.com is to monitor and report on the work of all groups that are writing draft principles to govern the future legal regulation of Artificial Intelligence. Many have been proposed to date. Click here to go Read More …

How The 12 Predictions Are Doing That We Made In “Information → Knowledge → Wisdom”

Ralph Losey

A year ago, April 5, 2015, we published what some consider the e-Discovery Team’s best essay, even though it had little to do with e-discovery: Information → Knowledge → Wisdom: Progression of Society in the Age of Computers. We wrote about Read More …