Podcast ... Using generative AI agents to make Signal a safe and secure administrative tool for all presidents ... Part 1, SignalGate

Last update: Wednesday 4/9/25 

Welcome to the 1st of a series of 4 podcasts about the Signal app. The series is called, "Using generative AI agents to make Signal a safe and secure administrative tool for all presidents". This first podcast answers some questions raised by our readers, friends, and associates about the issues addressed in the lengthy report that we posted last week, "SignalGate ... Alternative timelines of a leaky chat". This fiasco demonstrated how badly things can go when high level officials with insufficient training and insufficient technical support use a world class open source messaging app to discuss highly confidential subjects. ... The first section of this podcast is based on ChatGPT's succinct responses to a series of questions of concern to potential new users of Signal. What’s it all about? The second section is based on the chatbot's TL;DR summary of our lengthy report about the fiasco's double-hack. As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading the chatbot's responses and summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.

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SignalGate ... Alternative timelines of a leaky chat

Last update: Sunday 4/6/25

Here's the headline: House Democratic leader "Jeffries calls for firing Hegseth over war plans group chat", Nicholas Wu, Politico, 3/25/25 ... This blog note offers an alternative interpretation of what happened, an alternative that yields two recommendations that might minimize the chances of this happening again by putting GenAI agents on center stage.

TL;DR 12Oct24 + podcast ... Google's Demis Hassabis wins a Nobel prize for chemistry ... Google's Geoffry Hinton wins a Nobel prize for physics

Last update: Saturday 10/12/24 

Dr. Demis Hassabis (chemistry)

Dr. Geoffrey Hinton (physics}

Welcome to our 12Oct24 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT (and the editor of this blog) + podcast of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page. Last week, our top stories were all about OpenAI. This week our top stories feature Google, more specifically, the Nobel prizes that its current and former employees just received for their AI models. 

As usual, the podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading the TL;DR summaries in an AI imitation of the voice of the editor of this blog ... 1) Google's Demis Hassabis won a Nobel prize for chemistry and (2) Google's Geoffry Hinton won a Nobel prize for physics.

Audio podcast ... 6 min 

 

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Another kind of probability of doom has much higher values

Last update: Saturday 6/29/24

Wikipedia defines the value p(doom) as "the probability of catastrophic outcomes (or "doom") as a result of artificial intelligence. The exact outcomes in question differ from one prediction to another, but generally allude to the existential risk from artificial general intelligence."

Many tech-savvy folk assign small, but non-zero p(doom) values to the possibility that our pursuit of AGI might result in the extermination of the human race by an AGI that developed goals that were not aligned with the needs of humanity.

Anthropic's "many-shot jailbreaking" LLM hack ... Two recent Ezra Klein genAI podcasts ... TL;DR + podcast 7Mar24

Last update: Sunday 4/7/24 

Welcome to our 7Apr24 podcast + TL;DR summary of the past week's top AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page  ➡ 1) Anthropic's "many-shot jailbreaking" LLM hack and (2) Two recent Ezra Klein genAI podcasts 

Audio podcast ... 7 min

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TL;DR link ➡  HERE