Various IT new-casters are reporting continued problems with cyber-extortion and severe hacking incidents after hiring North Korean cybercriminal as a remote IT contractors. The BBC report identifies a latest incident where a Korean individual falsified credentials about their background and employment in order to operate under the guise of a freelance IT specialist, to become…

Meta’s “Fundamental AI Research” (FAIR) department has released the ‘Self-Taught Evaluator’, a tool that supposedly can assess and improve the accuracy of other AI models, without any human intervention, potentially bypassing human involvement during the future development of AI. The process was introduced in a paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.02666) which describes how a model would use the…

Lord Clement-Jones (LibDem) has introduced a private members’ bill to regulate the use of artificial intelligence algorithms and automated decision-making technologies by public authorities, citing the need to avoid another Scandal like that of Horizon Post Office. Reflecting the EU rules, if “computer says no” to a benefit decision, immigration decision or similar, a citizen…