In July, a cybercrime tool called WormGPT was discovered active in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. The tool uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help refine emails to be used in phishing or BEC attacks. Using generative AI technology to refine social engineering campaigns is becoming increasingly common. [...]
Generative AI as a Tool and Not a Threat By understanding generative AI, it can become less scary There is an inordinate amount of hype around generative artificial intelligence (AI) right now, and a lot of it is negative. A general fear is around the potential biased outcomes [...]
Five Trends of the Digital Workforce I recently gave a presentation to a group of financial, technical, and human resources (HR) leaders on the West Coast. It was interesting to give the talk, because a lot of the questions I received were around HR. These leaders were really [...]
High Value AI Solutions to Consider Implementing Within Your Business Today Take a deep breath and step back from all the hyperbole around AI. FPOV recently responded to the “Pause Giant AI Experiments” open letter, in which individuals including tech luminaries such as Elon Musk called for artificial [...]
Introduction The Future of Life Institute wrote an open letter titled “Pause Giant AI Experiments” on March 28, 2023, as a means to “call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least six months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” The letter itself had [...]
It is clear in the next decade there will be a series of innovations that change the complexity of the world as we know it today. These include the rapid commercialization of the internet of things, artificial intelligence, web3, virtual reality, the metaverse, blockchain, quantum computing, haptics, and 6G [...]
The mission of education is to prepare people for the future, equipping them with the skills and knowledge necessary to be productive and have marketable skills. As technology continues its rapid (and inevitable) advance, it is becoming increasingly important for education to keep up and prepare students for the [...]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic and has gained new attention with the likes of ChatGPT and Dall-E. These technologies are already revolutionizing the way we live and work. Notice that I’m using present tense. The AI revolution has started, it is well underway, and it IS impacting [...]
Introduction Consciousness. Self-Awareness. Sentience. For as long as humans have thought about these concepts, we have attributed them to ourselves … and only to ourselves. We believe they are somehow unique to us and what truly makes us, us. We are proud of these attributes, even arrogant at times, [...]
Introduction Europe has always been ahead of the United States in regulating emerging technology and the internet. One reason for their maturity with digital governance could be the differences in historical experiences. European countries generally place a higher value on privacy because their long histories have often included group [...]