More justification for WH-AI: Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of every American. How to protect yourself

• “These bad guys, this is what they do for a living,” Murray said. They might send out tens of thousands of queries and get only one response, but that response could net them $10,000 from an unwitting victim. “Ten thousand dollars in one day for having one hit with one victim, that’s a pretty good return on investment,” she said. “That’s what motivates them.”

More stuff for consumer-first AI: Cosmos Magazine publishes AI-generated articles, drawing criticism from journalists, co-founders

Schedule to get the door fixed

SBIRs

• Ping John to see if we can schedule WH-AI architecture planning
• Draw up some diagrams for the architecture that we can go over
  • Information flows
  • Main browser extension – just Chrome for now
  • Maybe three buttons for the popup?- Avoid, disregard, this is an error?
  • Adjustment knobs for target user – also notification settings for guardians (parents, adult children, etc.)
  • Private User database of issued warnings, so that users don’t see the same “introductory” warning. This DB could also have sender information
  • Some other kind of warning if the user is repeatedly interacting with the sender of manipulative email, particularly if it matches one of the scam patterns.
  • Spaced repetition of older warnings
  • Public database of manipulative posts, if warnings were disregarded or heeded. This can feed back to the the Chrome extension as well in case there are multiple adjacent embeddings that are, for example, increasing in a viral way.
  • A UMAP display of the embedding space that lets users navigate and understand what’s going on. Areas of high activity should be indicated. Clicking on a point or dragging across an area should provides specific and/or summary information
  • Reactive design for Chrome on mobile?
• UMAP-JS
  • This is a JavaScript reimplementation of UMAP from the python implementation found at https://github.com/lmcinnes/umap.
• Nope, strike that. Everything has to have a potential target before it gets worked on. So I’ve gone from belief space maps to white hat AI PoC to looking through SBIRs and BAAs. Ah, well, only 132 working days until 15 February 2025.
• Put together a good size list of people to reach out to. Still need to trawl the BAA/SBIR swamp

GPT Agents

• Read what I wrote yesterday. Look for sources. I’m particularly interested if there is anything on the creation of guardrails. There might be a perspective here that comes from labor relations, like having to buy GMO seeds rather than being able to re-plant based on the harvest? Extracting maximum value while providing minimum utility. Also worth re-reading the Stochastic Parrots paper and look for interesting papers that cite it. It strikes me that the whole idea of “public” GenAI may also reference the “right to repair” movement, and Robin Berjon’s The Public Interest Internet.