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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
The EU Committee Investigating Spyware Just Got Hacked by the Spyware It Was Investigating
Europe's Spyware Watchdogs Are Being Spied On He was watching the watchers. He didn't know they were watching him back. Here's a question worth sitting with before I give you the facts. If the people whose entire job is to investigate spyware abuse can't even protect their own phones from that same spyware, what does that tell you about anyone else's chances? I want you to really consider that, because this isn't a hypothetical. It happened, it's documented, and it happened t
Michael Routhier
Jul 144 min read
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