In case you skipped over them because the titles didn't register with you...

My last two posts on the CERIAS blog were my take on the current and near-future interactions between AI and cybersecurity. I'm not predicting doom for the field, nor am I touting AI as the cure-all, so I'm sure there is something for everyone to hate. 😉

https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/blog/post/new-myths-for-old
https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/blog/post/after-the-buggy-whip

From the "Letters to the NY Times I don't expect to get published" Department:

Steven Roth takes issue with people saying "tax the rich". During the French Revolution - taken from the same ideological DNA as our own Revolution - they used a large wooden structure to deal with wealth inequality. Would Mr. Roth prefer the Mayor's solution or those of our Founder's contemporaries? Societies have tried both.

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We finally get around to talking about Eastercon! This is a bumper episode, where we recap parts of Iridescence and talk about the bids for 2028, 2029, and beyond. We promise we’ll do letters of comment again next week.

Listen here! https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/159-taking-a-stand/

#ScienceFiction #Podcast #Eastercon

we joke that when the AI bubble pops and the managers can't afford the chatbot any more, the surviving companies will hire the people who know how shit works to clean up

but this is of course optimistic. observed behaviour is that they will instead do the stupidest and shortest-term thing they can do instead of ever doing it properly.

so what do you envision this might be?

for clarity, i think when the AI bubble pops, which I place as some time next year at the latest - and you can hear the screeching noises in 2026 - the current recession signs will turn into a full Great Depression 2, so those surviving companies will also be doing not so great

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