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<p>So right now I'm listening to a<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.defenseone.com/feature/genius-machines-livestream/#register-now">
livestream from BAH</a> on AI's usage in the military. It's good
to get beyond the straight up Terminator-esque fear that is all
the rage in policy circles right now. I mean, today you saw an
article where people were upset that Google was using TensorFlow
and related technologies to recognize objects in drone data. But
that same technology is going to make radiologists completely
obsolete, and change how biology is done forever.<br>
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<p>And of course a few recent meetings have been almost entirely
about focusing on cyber as it is used in Russian Information
Operations. Facebook is funding Belfer to try to build automated
techniques in theory which defeat IO. <br>
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<p>My new analogy for the policy world to help them understand cyber
is that it's the post-Columbian effect on food, when chili peppers
conquered the world (except for France). Like, yes, IO and Sichuan
food existed before cyber, but when you add the Cyber ops and
Chilli peppers to them respectively, they become completely
different things. <br>
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<p>But what you hear now is everyone saying "Hey, we focused so much
on CNA we forgot about mass-scale IO!" and you have to remind them
that there's going to be something next.</p>
<p>If it was me, I'd look at personal-scale IO. I want an AI that
automatically finds and recruits Iranian scientists, while
minimizing our risk and financial costs. It's just a chatbot with
a skype wallet and a securedrop site, right? <br>
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<p>Let's have an AI send upsetting and believable DeepFake videos to
Russian soldiers in Syria at opportune moments, based on our
intercept traffic and their vkontakte.ru profiles. <br>
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<p>The next stage is probably not about mass advertising on social
media - it's might be about changing just one mind. Going deeper
instead of broader. Whatever it is, it's going to be like any
cuisine with Chili's, where all of a sudden the very identity of
it changed forever and we can't even remember what the original
was like. <br>
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<p>Who knows? I mean, this is the kind of thing I want to talk about
over dinner at INFILTRATE with the P0 people, or with people I've
literally never met, who work for a company I've never heard of
which probably doesn't exist, in an accent I can't quite place. We
should have made this year's motto "The conference for people who
are not afraid of the future." or something. <br>
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<p>Also this year we are innovating by having real coffee carts, so
you can order a latte or a cuban coffee, which is what every
conference should always have had since half of us are super
jetlagged/hungover. :)<br>
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<p>-dave</p>
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