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. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]