Nathan Hamiel 

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Senior Director of Research at Kudelski Security, leading the fundamental and applied research team. International public speaker and Black Hat Review Board Member (AI, ML, and Data Science track lead) I focus on emerging technologies and future threats. Throughout my 20+ year career, I’ve focused on issues of software security, product security, and emerging technologies. I’ve discovered vulnerabilities in major products, identified new attack vectors, and built security tools.

I spend time thinking about the impact of technology on humanity as well as the dangers from the overabundance of tech overoptimism. I write occasional thoughts publicly on Perilous Tech. Avid reader and writer. Lifetime creative, player of multiple instruments, and writer of songs. Passionate animal rescuer and enjoy the outdoors. Believer in unstructured time and mind wandering.

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Nathan Hamiel 7h ago
I see we're doing this again.
Nathan Hamiel 6d ago
This take from Ed Zitron needs some tweaking. LLMs impress the non-writers who want to write, the non-coders who want to code, the researchers who simply want to boost their publication count, and the lawyers who’d rather be drinking.
Nathan Hamiel May 27
This may be a drop in the bucket for Google, bit it says a lot since it takes a lot for people switch. However, when a service continues to degrade with a slew of features nobody asked for, that's what happens. BTW, you still can't Google the word "disregard" in AI mode.
Nathan Hamiel May 27
The flip side is that with the guardrails removed, the models become more useful. Much of the commentary about the dangers here is overly sensational. The way guardrails are added to models is more like wrapping paper than a true protection mechanism anyway.
Nathan Hamiel May 21
This is a follow-up to my techno-communism post from last year. So many people talk about utopias or dystopias from the perspective of already being in them. What about the time leading up to them? This is what I call the dystopian lag. https://perilous.tech/the-ai-adjustment-bureau-and-the-dystopian-lag/
The AI Adjustment Bureau and the Dystopian Lag - Perilous Tech

Whenever people discuss utopias or dystopias, they thrust us right into the middle of them, but you find fewer people who talk about the transition period

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Nathan Hamiel May 20
Pull out irony gun, point directly at foot. He started his own investigation? Wasn't that what writing the book was? Seriously, he had one job! 🤦‍♂️ Incidents like these are a lot more damaging than people think.
Nathan Hamiel May 19
Nope, the singularity isn't 4 years away, but the shitularity is certainly already here.
Nathan Hamiel May 18
These predictions are always 12 to 18 months. That's because the timeframe is short enough to seem impactful, yet long enough for you to forget about the prediction after it doesn't happen.
Nathan Hamiel May 13
Ah, yes, "innovation." Please capture what's on my screen, what I say, and what I point at all so I can... do what exactly? It's obvious what Google gets, but what do I get for all this surveillance? Other than, zomg! My Ctrl-c has AI!!!
Nathan Hamiel May 7
Right on queue, the democratization of AI psychosis continues. Dawkins was hit by what I called local bias. He blew himself away with his experiment. https://perilous.tech/democratizing-ai-psychosis-why-smart-people-are-captured-by-ai-hype/