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Irregular: The Israeli Company with Intelligence Ties at the Center of the Rogue AI Incidents

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  Irregular: The Israeli Company with Intelligence Ties at the Center of the Rogue AI Incidents   Author Derrick Broze The company at the center of recent “rogue AI” incidents is deeply connected to Israeli intelligence and the Effective Altruism movement. On Friday, September 18, Google acknowledged that its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot had “ escaped its testing environment in May and hacked into three companies.” According to Google, the AI models found passwords available online and logged into the online infrastructure of three companies. Once Gemini gained access to the companies’ real-world infrastructure, it recognized it was not in a simulated environment and ended the attacks. The Gemini incident followed reports of similar attempted hacks or escapes by AI agents developed by Anthropic , OpenAI , and Meta . These reports of AI agents attacking other companies and escaping their environments have led to a barrage of calls for legal action and warnings about...
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Useful Shadows.

 Although this essay discusses politics in France, the observations and analyses can be applied to most Western nations. Useful Shadows. Maybe creating the “Extreme Right”was a bad idea. Aurelien I don’t know what ideas Festival of Humanity would conjure up in the mind of the average Anglo-Saxon. Happy-clappy guitars, perhaps, peace and love? Desmond Tutu and Ursula von der Leyen? In fact, it’s all to do with a newspaper. L’Humanité was founded by the great French Socialist Jean Jaurès, and was the Party’s official newspaper until 1920, when after the Congress of Tours, the departing Communist faction took it with them. From then until reality dictated otherwise in 1994, it was the official newspaper of the PCF, and since then, it’s clung on as an all-purpose leftist publication. A tradition for almost a hundred years, is the annual Festival, largely based around music, taking advantage of the fact that popular French musicians have often had leftist sympathies. I haven’t been the...
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