TEACHERS: If you're looking for a reading to assign, to help explain why you're banning AI from your classroom, here ya go.

There didn't seem to be one article that rounds up all the major issues. I tried to do that here, so it's a long read. Feel free to use/share as you like.

Holy schnikes! I hope you recover quickly, Shannon, and that this never, ever happens again.

And this reminds me to take better care of myself...I suppose we all could do that, esp. in these deeply troubled times, ongoing pandemic, and work demands. Time to go for a walk...

This is what's happening right now:

A meditation for the New Year:

A reminder that AI/LLMs have no intrinsic connection to the truth, only statistical predictions of what the next words should be, which depend on its training data.

"You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society." — Kurt Vonnegut

"Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.” — Pyotr Kropotkin

"The Center for the Study of Space Crime, Piracy, and Governance Forms Advisory Board"

Another one of my projects. We may be too early in thinking about this, but it's much better than being too late. (And the odds of being right on time are slim to none.)

cscpg.org/news/the-cen...

And here's our report from this past summer on how to imagine novel scenarios for space cyberattacks:
spacecybersecurity.org

Glad to see more imaginative scenarios in conversations about space security now. They help to bring hidden threats to life and underscore the urgency to be prepared. Abstract scenarios (e.g., "someone hacked our satellite") can't really do that work.

Setting expectations with my first post here: