Category: CyberWarfare

  • The (Hidden) Faces of Militarized AI 2030 : Starlink, Palantir, Anduril

    The (Hidden) Faces of Militarized AI 2030 : Starlink, Palantir, Anduril

    OpenAI, ChatGPT, Google’s continual Gemini faceplants, and now Apple’s (“Intelligence”) tend to dominate the public conversation about AI. But what about militarized AI, the AI of global warfare, the AI that will theoretically control the killer robots of sci-fi lore? Let us not forget what fully 1/6th of the entire federal budget, and fully half (50%)…

  • Volt Typhoon : Reckoning with the Lethal Sleeper Agent of the 21st Century

    Volt Typhoon : Reckoning with the Lethal Sleeper Agent of the 21st Century

    Two things : 1) Volt Typhoon, & 2) Axis & Allies Tech Stacks .. redefining the domestic threat level of global cyberwarfare operations, and the lens through which we observe it. Volt Typhoon This was the sentence that woke me out of my stupor. I had to read it three times slowly to make sure…

  • Power Seeking AI and Self-Replication with GPT4

    Power Seeking AI and Self-Replication with GPT4

    GPT4 launched today, to little fanfare and great surprise. Along with the launch, OpenAI published a 96-page research report. There are many gems buried in its hyper-technical blather. One in particular was what was done regarding “Safety testing and assessments of Power Seeking AI.” We quote here, directly from the report: Testing for Power Seeking…

  • Weaponized Drones 2023: Death from Above

    Weaponized Drones 2023: Death from Above

    coming soon to a battlefield near you In this post, we will focus on one particular aspect of the global race towards Armageddon the deployment of fully-autonomous, AI-piloted, weaponized drones & swarms: that is, specifically, low-cost, “kamikaze”-style drones, which once deployed fly fully autonomously, either individually or more likely in swarms, armed with the purchasers…

  • AI Arms Race: the Alarming State of Cyberwarfare c.2023

    AI Arms Race: the Alarming State of Cyberwarfare c.2023

    APOLOGIA: This post on the current state of the AI Arms Race is nowhere near complete. But it’s how I choose to publish. Honestly, these days, I have so many thoughts about AI in my head that I deem “ready to publish” that I could go 24/7 for 7 days straight and not be complete.…