Safe Mode Podcast

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  • Sara Hooker on compute thresholds for AI; CrowdStrike breaks the internet

    Sara Hooker on compute thresholds for AI; CrowdStrike breaks the internet
    Jul 25 2024
    AI governance regimes the world over have seized on compute thresholds as a mechanism for implementing various controls on artificial intelligence systems. The basic idea is that if an AI model relies on a sufficiently large amount of computing power, then various controls kick in. As AI models get larger, the thinking goes, they also get riskier, and this means that AI governance regimes should focus on the largest models, as measured by computing power. But does this idea make any sense as a governing tool for the models of today and tomorrow? Sara Hooker leads Cohere’s research operation, and she’s looked hard at whether compute thresholds can be applied to AI systems to mitigate risks. On this episode of Safe Mode, she sits down with host Elias Groll to discuss her research on compute thresholds. CyberScoop’s newly minted editor in chief, Greg Otto, also joins the show to discuss how an errant CrowdStrike software update took down a huge number of critical services across the internet. Links: On the Limits of Compute Thresholds as a Governance Strategy | arXiv CrowdStrike Falcon flaw sends Windows computers into chaos worldwide | CyberScoop
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    46 mins
  • Dewey Murdick on enabling principles for AI governance; a landmark breach at AT&T

    Dewey Murdick on enabling principles for AI governance; a landmark breach at AT&T
    Jul 18 2024
    Around the world policymakers seem to be grappling with the same question: How best to govern artificial intelligence? The Center for Security and Emerging Technology, a Washington-based think tank, has emerged as a key and influential player in that conversation. And on this episode of Safe Mode, its executive director, Dewey Murdick, sits down with host Elias Groll to describe what he sees as the enabling principles of AI governance. Also on the show this week, CyberScoop reporter AJ Vicens discusses a landmark breach affecting AT&T that saw call and text records of nearly all the company’s customers be stolen.
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    40 mins
  • Allan Liska on why it’s time to ban ransomware payments; Russian info ops

    Allan Liska on why it’s time to ban ransomware payments; Russian info ops
    Jul 11 2024
    We are living through an epidemic of ransomware. Last year alone, the amount paid to ransomware operators exceeded $1 billion, and the entities getting hit and seeing their operations disrupted by ransomware included hospitals, schools and libraries. Ransomware is both a public-health and national-security crisis, yet efforts to address the problem are not making a dent. Allan Liska is a senior intelligence analyst at Recorded Future and a leading analyst of the ransomware phenomenon, and on this episode of Safe Mode he sits down with host Elias Groll to discuss why it’s long past time to ban ransomware payments. CyberScoop reporter Derek Johnson also joins the show to discuss the U.S. intelligence community’s observations of information operations targeting the 2024 election.
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    38 mins
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