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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 08:51:56 +0200
From: "J.C. DE MARTIN" <juancarlos.demartin@polito.it>
To: Nexa <nexa@server-nexa.polito.it>
Subject: [nexa] The Santiago Boys
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E' online The Santiago Boys, il nuovo, splendido progetto di Evgeny Morozov:
https://the-santiago-boys.com/
Qui sotto l'annuncio.
Inoltre, oggi "La Lettura" dedica quattro pagine (!) all'iniziativa e
ieri il Guardian da pubblicato un articolo a uno dei protagonisti della
storia, Stafford Beer:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/22/stafford-beer-chile-allende-technology-cybernetics
Bravo, Evgeny!
juan carlos
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//The podcast that took 2+ years and 200+ interviews to produce is
finally online!//
//
//You can listen to it on the main podcasting platforms (including
Spotify and Apple Podcasts). //
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//The website of the Santiago Boys offers plenty of extra materials for
those of you who want to dig deeper: footnotes, backgrounders, sources,
videos, a glossary, and so much else. //
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//And we are also publishing the interviews with the many people we
interviewed (check out, for example, this interview with Brian Eno where
he talks about Stafford Beer and his own fascination with cybernetics). //
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//Many thanks to dozens of people who worked on this ambitious project;
you can see all their names here. //
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//I hope you take a break from the Barbenheimer hyper and spend some
time with the Santiago Boys instead! //
//
//Evgeny Morozov/
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 10:07:13 +0200
From: "Federico Guerrini" <federico.guerrini@hushmail.com>
To: nexa@server-nexa.polito.it
Subject: [nexa] Artificial Intelligence: A New Frontier for
Surveillance Capitalism?
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"If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether
Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It
doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but
it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds. When Alexa
responds in this way, it’s obvious that it is putting its
developer’s interests ahead of yours. Usually, though, it’s not so
obvious whom an AI system is serving. To avoid being exploited by
these systems, people will need to learn to approach AI skeptically.
(...) As a security expert and data scientist, we believe that people
who come to rely on these AIs will have to trust them implicitly to
navigate daily life. That means they will need to be sure the AIs
aren’t secretly working for someone else. Across the internet,
devices and services that seem to work for you already secretly work
against you. Smart TVs spy on you. Phone apps collect and sell your
data. Many apps and websites manipulate you through dark patterns,
design elements that deliberately mislead, coerce or deceive website
visitors. This is surveillance capitalism, and AI is shaping up to be
part of it."
"Imagine asking your chatbot to plan your next vacation. Did it choose
a particular airline or hotel chain or restaurant because it was the
best for you or because its maker got a kickback from the businesses?
As with paid results in Google search, newsfeed ads on Facebook and
paid placements on Amazon queries, these paid influences are likely
to get more surreptitious over time.
If you’re asking your chatbot for political information, are the
results skewed by the politics of the corporation that owns the
chatbot? Or the candidate who paid it the most money? Or even the
views of the demographic of the people whose data was used in
training the model? Is your AI agent secretly a double agent? Right
now, there is no way to know."
https://theconversation.com/can-you-trust-ai-heres-why-you-shouldnt-209283
Ciao,
Federico
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 10:24:58 +0200
From: "J.C. DE MARTIN" <juancarlos.demartin@polito.it>
To: Nexa <nexa@server-nexa.polito.it>
Subject: [nexa] RFC "Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden
Revelations"
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RFC 9446
*Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations**
*
Stream:
Independent Submission
RFC:
9446
Category:
Informational
Published:
July 2023
ISSN:
2070-1721
Authors:
S. Farrell
Trinity College, Dublin
F. Badii
Digital Medusa
B. Schneier
Harvard University
S. M. Bellovin
Columbia University
*Abstract**
*
This memo contains the thoughts and recountings of events that
transpired during and after the release of information about the United
States National Security Agency (NSA) by Edward Snowden in 2013. There
are four perspectives: that of someone who was involved with sifting
through the information to responsibly inform the public, that of a
security area director of the IETF, that of a human rights expert, and
that of a computer science and affiliate law professor. The purpose of
this memo is to provide some historical perspective, while at the same
time offering a view as to what security and privacy challenges the
technical community should consider. These essays do not represent a
consensus view, but that of the individual authors.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9446.html
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