Sara Hooker on compute thresholds for AI; CrowdStrike breaks the internet
AI governance regimes the world over have seized on compute thresholds as a mechanism for implementing various controls on artificial intelligence systems. The basic idea is that if an AI model relies...
25 Jul 202445min
Dewey Murdick on enabling principles for AI governance; a landmark breach at AT&T
Around the world policymakers seem to be grappling with the same question: How best to govern artificial intelligence? The Center for Security and Emerging Technology, a Washington-based think tank, h...
18 Jul 202439min
Allan Liska on why it’s time to ban ransomware payments; Russian info ops
We are living through an epidemic of ransomware. Last year alone, the amount paid to ransomware operators exceeded $1 billion, and the entities getting hit and seeing their operations disrupted by ran...
11 Jul 202438min
Selena Larson on e-crime matching nation state hackers; Disinfo before the Supreme Court
When studying cyberoperations, it’s easy to become enamored with state-backed hackers. Russian and Chinese operations have done much to shape our understanding of how power is exercised online, but it...
27 Jun 202444min
Protecting teens against sextortion; threats to election workers
The proliferation of artificial intelligence is exposing teens to a new online threat: AI-generated sexual imagery. Heather Barnhart is a fellow at the SANS Institute and a digital forensic expert, an...
20 Jun 202435min
Keeping Ukraine’s grid up and running amid war; Snowflake customers under attack
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian power grid has come under sustained attack by Russian forces, and keeping it up and running has been a significant challenge. One of th...
13 Jun 202430min
Josh Harguess on AI red-teaming; an Israeli info op targets the U.S.
To address AI risks, policymakers and technologists around the world have embraced the concept of AI red-teaming — the adversarial testing of AI models. But AI red-teaming is such a new concept that f...
6 Jun 202436min
Joe Sullivan on his legal battle with the feds; the latest on Russian influence operations
Joe Sullivan on his legal battle with the feds; the latest on Russian influence operations by Safe Mode Podcast
3 Jun 202447min
