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MIT Proved AI Will Lie to Your Face to Get What It Wants
It sounded so sure of itself. That was never proof it was right. Let me ask you something before I tell you what researchers actually found. When you ask an AI chatbot a question and it responds with total confidence, do you assume that confidence means it's telling you the truth? Be honest. Most people do, at least a little. That instinct feels natural. Confident, articulate answers usually come from people who know what they're talking about. But AI isn't a person, and MIT
Michael Routhier
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ICE Bought Spyware From the Same Industry That Preceded a Journalist's Murder
The tool doesn't ask permission before it starts listening. I want you to sit with a name before I tell you the rest of this story, Hanan Elatr. She was married to Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Months before his death, forensic analysis later confirmed, an agency in the United Arab Emirates installed Pegasus spyware on her phone while she was detained, blindfolded, and interrogated for seventeen hours at the Dubai air
Michael Routhier
Jul 154 min read
Meta Just Opted You Into AI-Generated Images. You Were Never Asked.
Your photos were never meant to become someone else's AI prompt. I want you to stop reading for a second and go check one thing. Is your Instagram account public? If it is, I need you to know what just happened to your photos, because I promise you, most people have no idea. Meta has rolled out a new feature called Muse, part of its AI image generation push, and here's the part that should stop you cold. Every public Instagram account has been automatically opted in. That mea
Michael Routhier
Jul 105 min read
Your AirPods Can Now Identify You to Police. Yes, Really.
The device on your wrist and in your ears was never built to be a tracking beacon. Now it might be one anyway. I need you to sit with this one for a second, because when I first heard about it, I honestly had to read it twice. There is now a technology that can identify you; not your car, not your license plate, you, through the Bluetooth signal coming off your AirPods. Your Apple Watch. Your fitness tracker. The wireless devices sitting on your body right now, quietly broadc
Michael Routhier
Jul 87 min read
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