What's 'just' about 'just go online'?
Online is now a high crime neighborhood and it's bad for your health. To 'just go online' means exposing oneself to a wide range of crimes, from frauds and scams to stalking, abuse, and harassment.
Riskopia
It's about risks and how we perceive them. From award-winning technologist Stephen Cobb
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Lifting awareness of male supremacy: an elevator pitch with a twist
The source of much of what is wrong in the world today is male supremacy, awareness of which needs raising. Could one simple question do the trick?
AI Risk Assessment: Gender and the Non-White Female Effect (NWFE)
Now is the time for the people pushing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to heed those who see how much harm it can cause, and recognize who those people are.
What a Concept! 30 years of Microsoft macro-enabled crime and its impact on humans and AI
When Bill Gates' Microsoft shunned the wisdom of experts and mixed code with content in office documents it enabled cybercrimes costing the world billions. Now it's adding AI into the malware mix.
ChatGPT-5 on Cybercrime: An Open Letter to World Leaders
According to ChatGPT-5: "the stakes could not be higher." The latest version of OpenAI's widely used AI model calls for greater action to defeat cybercrime before it defeats the very purpose of artificial intelligence.
ChatGPT Says Cybercrime Is a Pervasive and Damaging Global Threat, Other AI Agree
The world's best known AI says that cybercrime today is: "severe and worsening…one of the most pervasive and damaging global threats, and governments and companies are consistently behind the curve."
Getting facts wrong: a generative AI demo
Short video to demonstrate several ways is which ChatGPT and other LLMs can get something wrong, repeatedly. (Warning: includes car hacking and crashing.)
Man Made Mess
It's about technology, ethics, and how to make things better
Man Made Mess
It's about technology, ethics, and how to make things better