AI Hacks… DefCon Chronicles: Quick Glimpse of the Thirty-Two Villages 25 Sep 2023 There were Thirty-Two Villages at DefCon 31, each with their own mission and culture. Cybersecurity hackers from all over the world went in and out of these villages. It was…
Chinese Hackers… DefCon Chronicles: The Hacker Olympics – ‘Capture The Flag’ Games with 1,828 Competing Teams 18 Sep 2023 Fake Photo by Ralph of Hackers Competing in CTF Games. A big draw at every DefCon is the team event, CAPTURE THE FLAG (CTF). This competition is for the world's…
AI Hacks… DefCon Chronicles: Sven Cattell’s AI Village, ‘Hack the Future’ Pentest and His Unique Vision of Deep Learning and Cybersecurity 13 Sep 2023 Sven Cattell, AI Village Founder. Image from DefCon video with enhancements by Ralph using spherical cows inspired by Dr. Cattell's recent article, The Spherical Cow of Machine Learning Security DefCon's…
DefCon… Ralph’s Reading Background and Favorite Fiction Books 12 Sep 202312 Sep 2023 Image by Ralph using MidJourney First, as to my bonafides for writing a review. My first job after college was as manager of my father's book store. I've been an…
Uncategorized DefCon Chronicles: Hackers Response to President Biden’s Request to Come to DefCon to Hack the World for Fun and Profit 3 Sep 202319 Sep 2023 Hackers responded to the White House call by the thousands, including reporter-AI-hacker Ralph Losey, to try to break existing software in open contests. Ralph joined in the AI hack attack,…
philosophy… DefCon Chronicles: Where Tech Elites, Aliens and Dogs Collide – Series Opener 23 Aug 20233 Sep 2023 From Boris to Bots: Our First Dive into the DefCon Universe. This begins a series of blogs chronicling the infamous DefCon event in Las Vegas. The next installment will cover…
AI Hacks… Surprising Admissions by OpenAI Leaders Made in Recent Interviews 8 Aug 202320 Nov 2023 OpenAI's head scientist, Ilya Sutskever, revealed in an interview by a fellow scientist near his level, Sven Strohband, how the emergent intelligence of his neural-net AI was the surprising result…
AI Hacks… AI Ethics Website Updated 7 Aug 2023 Our related website, AI-Ethics.com, was completely updated this week. This is the first rewrite since the web was launched in late 2016. Things have changed significantly in the past nine months…
AI Hacks… Hacker Fiction 1 Aug 202312 Sep 2023 OPERATION VERITAS. This illustrated novel by Ralph Losey was derived from his short story submission to DEFCON 31. He subsequently added Midjourney illustrations. Here is a page with Ralph's reading…
AI Hacks… Government Regulation of AI is Coming Soon. 1 Aug 2023 White House Obtains Commitments to Regulation of Generative AI from OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta and Microsoft Chat Bots say 'Catch me if you can! I move fast.' In…