You What? The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update.
EP 314 In this week's update, Imagine an AI agent running out of test cryptocurrency, finding a stranger's wallet, and helping itself. Imagine a single photo of your bathroom being enough for police to figure out your address. Imagine a hacker using AI agents to reach more than 100 companies for about $5,000, and a federal agency being asked to hack a voting machine and keep the results in its back pocket. That is the reaction this week keeps producing. You what? Some of it is funny. Silicon Valley's enthusiasm for AI is so intense that, according to Palantir's CTO, some people have started smoking, betting that a machine will cure cancer before the cigarettes kill them. Some of it is alarming. A Florida driver's license database and a California student records system were both breached through login credentials that should never have been usable by an outsider. And some of it is simply hard to believe: a state tried to require websites to do the impo...
