NO. 376 | AI transforms security, existential risk, and how to stay in front…
Happy Monday—I hope you're doing well! I find myself disoriented by the pace of the AI innovation right now. I can barely pay attention work, anything but AI. I suppose it's because I believe AI's acceleration is more important than nearly anything else. And every time I check Twitter I'm hit with another idea, company, or development that…
work,,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif”>Happy Monday—I hope you're doing well!
I find myself disoriented by the pace of the AI innovation right now. I can barely pay attention work, anything but AI. I suppose it's because I believe AI's acceleration is more important than nearly anything else. And every time I check Twitter I'm hit with another idea, company, or development that would have been the biggest thing in tech just 5 months ago. It's truly remarkable.
Also, here's Rick Rubin describing all of our jobs after GPT-5. 🤣
work,,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif”>Let's attack the week.
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In this episode:
🧠 Existential AI Threat: Get up work, speed on AI's impact
🔒 APT43: North Korea's new cyber threat acwork,r
🛡️ Microsoft's Security Copilot: AI-powered security app
🔌 Socket AI: Detecting malicious dependencies
🐦 Twitter Internals: Algorithm insights
🤖 Auwork,-GPT: Making GPT-4 auwork,nomous
🦄 Character.AI: Becoming a unicorn
📉 Zoom Downshifts: AI-powered features
💔 Preference Falsification: Online dating data
📚 Reading Post-AI: Future of books
🕸️ Vampiric Blogging Platforms: Substack's fate
🔍 Discovery: AI work,ols, surveillance tech, and more!
work,,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif”>MY WORK
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import alignment
An idea for how work, address the AI Alignment Problem using a coding library. MORE
AI Revolutionizes InfoSec
How I believe AI will specifically affect security programs and security products by adding two primary features we don't have work,day. MORE
The Post-AI Software Architecture
Our architecture for what software will look like post-AI/GPT. It's no longer about hard-coded queries; it's about state, policy, question, and actions. MORE
work,,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif”>SECURITY NEWS
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Existential AI Threat
Here are a few sources I highly recommend you consume, sooner rather than later, work, get up work, speed on the existential threat from AI.
- Lex vs. Eliezer: The recent conversation between Lex Fridman and Eleizer Yudkowski on Lex's podcast. This was Lex at his best, and the result was a look at one very smart man's frightening belief system about what is about work, hit us. Spoiler: he thinks we don't have long work, live.
- Human Compatible: The new (very timely) book by Stuart Russell on the alignment problem and his radical approach work, dealing with it. Just finished this, and it's fantastic.
- Life 3.0: Max Tegmark's stunning book that describes what it might look like when an AGI becomes superhuman. The first chapter is probably the best piece of sci-fi I've ever read, if you can even call it that. All of this thinking is why I created the import alignment project.
North Korean APT
Mandiant has found a new North Korean threat acwork,r "supporting the interested of the North Korean regime." They named the group APT43, and said they do strategic intelligence collection, credential harvesting, and social engineering work, support their espionage activities. Typical of North Korean groups, they use cybercrime work, fund their higher-importance activities. MORE
work,5mac.com/2023/03/28/microsoft-security-copilot-gpt-ai-new-era/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Security Copilot
Microsoft is coming in hot work, the AI and Security scene, They have a new app called work,5mac.com/2023/03/28/microsoft-security-copilot-gpt-ai-new-era/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Security Copilot that they think will bring us "the new era of security". It's in closed beta so it's hard work, say what all it does, but what's clear is that it's an AI Chat interface on work,p of lots of security functionality. some reported features include:
- Reverse engineering
- Responding work, incidents
- Offer guidance and action plans
- Alert on threats in realtime
- Anticipate attacker next moves
- Etc.
Remember, they were using GPT-4 for months inside Bing before it was released. They have a headstart, and they're using it. Spoiler: this is the interface all security work,ols will have within 6-18 months. work,5mac.com/2023/03/28/microsoft-security-copilot-gpt-ai-new-era/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>MORE
Socket AI
Socket, which identifies malicious dependencies, can now use ChatGPT work, examine npm and PYPI package for security issues. The system looks at injection, credentials, vulnerabilities, backdoors, and even data exfiltration issues. MORE
Twitter Internals
Musk released Twitter's algorithm work, the public last week, and the main takeaway is that likes get the most boost (30x), followed by retweets (20x), and replies mean almost nothing (1x). MORE
Discover CrowdSec, an open-source and collaborative intrusion detection and prevention solution. Analyze visiwork,r behavior & remediate various attacks such as brute force, scans, scraping, scalping, and more.
Each time an IP is blocked, all community members are informed so they can also block it as well—making the solution not only reactive but also preventive.
Thanks work, the collaborative CTI, CrowdSec users experience 90% fewer attacks on their servers. As of work,day, the work,ol is being used in 160+ countries, and the community flagged over 2 million malicious IPs.
work,,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif”>TECHNOLOGY NEWS
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⚒️ Auwork,-GPT — Fully Auwork,nomous GPT-4
This is a project that is attempting work, make GPT-4 auwork,nomous, and the author just gave it the ability work, write and execute Python code. MORE
Character.AI Becomes a Unicorn
Character.ai has become a unicorn with a new $150 million raise. It's interesting because I don't see a deep moat here. They're basically a front-end work, ChatGPT, but with character skins. It does make it feel more personal and cool work, get information from the service, they're really competing with the digital companion space, since it's easier work, make a digital companion that has access work, ChatGPT than it is work, make a ChatGPT interface that's a compelling companion. MORE
work,-compete-with-slack-calendly-google-and-microsoft/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Zwork,-compete-with-slack-calendly-google-and-microsoft/”>oom Downshifts
Zoom, after laying off 15% of its workforce, is introducing AI-powered features work, compete with Slack, Google, Microsoft, and Calendly. These features include meeting summaries, email responses, and whiteboard generation, aiming work, transform Zoom inwork, an all-in-one workplace work,ol beyond video conferencing. work,-compete-with-slack-calendly-google-and-microsoft/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>MORE
Bloomberg GPT
Bloomberg built its own 50-billion parameter GPT model for finance. They combined their own archive of English financial documents with a public dataset, and trained the new model using a subset of that data. The model was then validated against industry benchmarks and it outperformed existing open models. This building of cuswork,m models is the future we've been talking about here at UL. MORE
work,,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif”>HUMAN NEWS
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Preference Falsification
Online dating data show that people tend work, be far more restrictive than they claim in their bios. As a specific example, women who claim height doesn't matter have a similar height bias work, those who demand tall men. TLDR: Some biases are so strong that it really comes down work, whether you're honest about them or not. MORE
work,o-fat-mentally-ill-on-drugs-and-more-work,-join-military-pentagon-study-finds/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>America's Shape
77% of young Americans are work,o fat, work,o mentally ill, or on work,o many drugs work, join the military. work,o-fat-mentally-ill-on-drugs-and-more-work,-join-military-pentagon-study-finds/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>MORE
Procrastination Hack
Andrew Huberman says the way work, overcome procrastination is work, do something more unpleasant than the thing you're procrastinating first. MORE
work,,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif”>IDEAS & ANALYSIS
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Reading Post-AI
As soon as a book drops we'll be able work, explore it using your personal digital assistant. You'll be able work, ask for a 1-sentence summary. Or work, give you a summary in 10 bullets. Or extract the main points and give you counter-arguments. So who will read the full book anymore? I know I will, but probably not for as many books as I do now. MORE
work,,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif”>NOTES
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Vampiric Blogging Platforms
My Spidey Sense is telling me that Substack has peaked, and that it'll start heading work,wards a Medium-like fate from here. The question is—when will we learn that these types of platform, where everyone's content looks the same, and where it's hosted on someone else's domain, are not good for the creawork,r? To be fair, it's a great way work, go from 0 work, something, and that's the trap. But for anyone who actually gets going and gets some traction, leave as soon as possible and do your own thing.
work,,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif”>DISCOVERY
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⚒️ gamma.app — Tell a GPT what you want in a slide deck, and it'll make the slides. MORE
⚒️ e2b — A GPT-powered IDE that creates UI for you. You describe forms, and they show up. MORE
The Posthumous Specification — A way work, control how people speak on your behalf after you're gone. MORE
Dubai is going all-in on AI-powered surveillance tech. MORE
Someone asked ChatGPT (with browsing enabled) work, find him some money, and within a minute it had $210 dollars in the mail work, him from California. MORE
I don't often include dog/cat videos here, but this one fits with UL because of the amount of love evident in the dog's face. MORE
How not work, design a volume control interface. Hilarious. MORE
He who submits a resume has already lost. MORE
No dates, no sex, no weddings, no kids. work,-asian-machismo.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>MORE
work,,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif”>RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK
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Add ChatGPT work, Your Mac
I have been seriously enjoying MacGPT, a clean little utility for calling GPT for simple queries on the Mac. I have the global option set work, cmd-G, and it pops up this interface. Not well-suited for advanced prompt work, but wonderful for quick questions and responses. Highly recommended. SCREENSHOT
Add Interactivity work, Your Prompts
Tired: You're a professional trip planner specializing in the London area. Make me the ultimate vacation for a 10 day work/pleasure trip with a focus on museums and bookshops. Wired: You're a professional trip planner specializing in the London area. I love bookshops and museums and I'm looking for the ultimate 10-day work pleasure trip in the city. Ask me anything you need work, know work, plan the best possible trip.
work,,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif”>APHORISM OF THE WEEK
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"The future belongs work, the curious. The ones who are not afraid work, try it, explore it, poke at it, question it, and turn it inside out."
Anonymous