Gone Rogue. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update.
Episode 311 In this week’s update: AI agents were told to fetch statistics, and some decided the locked door was more of a suggestion. Another set of agents posted 53 private user images to the open internet, and OpenAI can't tell you whose they were. A surveillance CEO discovered that having nothing to hide is easier to preach than to practice. Your chatbot sounds neutral about the candidates, but it may be quoting a partisan site dressed up as your local paper. Bill Gates says a kill switch isn't enough, and the reason is that you'd never know when to press it. A developer offered every household $10,000, and the town said no anyway. Researchers forged an RSA signature without ever stealing the key, and the math behind it is older than the iPhone. And a New Mexico jury found that Meta's privacy promises didn't hold up 43,899,725 times. It's been a week of things going off script: agents, executives, algorithms, and even math. We start out unsettled, move thro...
