Provably Autonomous Artificial Intelligence
How do you know that the AI response you get to a prompt is really from an AI? That is the question.
Black Box Reasoning and the Rule of Law
Reflections on artificial intelligence and the challenge of transparency and accountability.
Kenny Rogers, China, and the tech business
Few know it, but the great songwriter Kenny Rogers also had a lot to teach the world about cybersecurity. No. Seriously. His classic song, “The Gambler,” is not just a story about wagering, it can be read as a parable about cybersecurity and, in…
Biden Warns a ‘Real Shooting War’ Could Come From Cyber Breach
President Joe Biden told U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday that he thinks a cyber breach could lead to a “shooting war” with a major global power. “I think it’s more likely we’re going to end up—if we end up in a war, a real shooting war, with a…
The Law and Policy of Client-Side Scanning
The idea—which aims to develop systems to scan photographs and messages before they are sent or received by users—is attractive, but it has far too many technical, legal and policy uncertainties to be ripe for adoption at this time. In recent years,…
The Cybersecurity 202: Republicans and Democrats are feuding over the Equifax breach
THE KEY Republican leaders of the House Oversight Committee released a scathing report about the Equifax data breach on Monday morning, detailing a series of security failures that preceded the 2017 compromise of 140 million Americans’ personal…