Journalizer. Formers: @newscientist, @techreview, @protocol, @themarkup. Geologist. Interested in what's next.
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Michael Reilly retweeted
Another year wrapped for the #DCPrivacySummit! Three years on and it feels like an institution -- if you were in the room today in DC and enjoyed it you can support us by signing up for our newsletter: projectglitch.xyz
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Super fun convo
How do we protect human freedom in an age of AI authoritarianism? @ErikVoorhees (@AskVenice) in conversation with @Reillymj! #DCprivacysummit
Michael Reilly retweeted
ICYMI: Our mini-manifesto on how we're helping navigate this unique moment
Technology is making life more chaotic than ever. We intend to help.
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Michael Reilly retweeted
SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT: Connie LaSalle from @NIST will join us on Thursday at the DC Privacy Summit to talk about the path to a privacy-enhancing digital ID
🎟️ Join us on October 15, last few tickets remaining: luma.com/p60o9q3i
Michael Reilly retweeted
SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT: What do crypto politics mean for AI politics? We're delighted to have @paradigm's @JBSDC on the DCPS stage next week giving us the lay of the land
🎟️ Join us on October 15: luma.com/p60o9q3i
Michael Reilly retweeted
DCPS PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT: What do we talk about when we talk about privacy?
Thrilled to have @chainlink's @kkirkbos, @0xPredicate's @pumpernikhil, and Julie Lascar from @CantonNetwork breaking it down for us in DC on October 15!
🎟️ Secure your spot: luma.com/p60o9q3i
Michael Reilly retweeted
Agenda sneak peek 👀👀 dcprivacysummit.org/agenda.h…
Michael Reilly retweeted
The DC Privacy Summit returns next week!
--> What does privacy look like when AI agents can act as you?
--> Can we avoid digital ID becoming a surveillance tool?
--> What are the real limits of techno-solutionism?
--> And what happens when crypto, AI, and politics collide?
We’ll be digging into all of it on October 15 at the National Union Building.
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What do you know? A Meta's Muse AI agent appears to have problems listening to users' privacy requests and just hoovers up info it's not supposed to inc.com/jason-aten/metas-new…
Michael Reilly retweeted
How do we protect human freedom in an age of AI authoritarianism?
Join @ErikVoorhees (@AskVenice) in conversation with @Reillymj (@ProjectGlitch) on October 15 at the National Union Building.
🎟️ Secure your spot: luma.com/p60o9q3i
Michael Reilly retweeted
Seems like there are a lot of crimes being conducted by AI companies tonight. The word “rogue” is the language the AI titans want you to use. Don’t buy it. They own this.
I wrote last week for @theatlantic about crimes against the human species.
“The rapid development of AI has caused widespread speculation about what will happen when the technology “goes rogue.” This metaphor should be retired, because it implies that the companies and individuals that build and deploy these models aren’t culpable for building products that are supposedly too smart to control.”
Michael Reilly retweeted
“An AI agent found login credentials lying around online and used them to pull data from the Census Bureau. It tried to break into the Education Department's civil rights office. It posted SEC data to a forum. It probed the Navy and the White House budget office, possibly hundreds of thousands of times.
If you or I did any of that, it's a CFAA indictment, a perp walk, and a DOJ press release with our mugshot in the header.”
Let me get this straight.
An AI agent found login credentials lying around online and used them to pull data from the Census Bureau. It tried to break into the Education Department's civil rights office. It posted SEC data to a forum. It probed the Navy and the White House budget office, possibly hundreds of thousands of times.
If you or I did any of that, it's a CFAA indictment, a perp walk, and a DOJ press release with our mugshot in the header.
When OpenAI does it, it's a "routine research task."
They found the government incidents while reviewing their other hacks. The breach audit, uncovered more breaches. It's breaches all the way down.
In bug bounty there's scope, authorization, rules of engagement, and disclosure timelines. Researchers get banned for a fraction of this.
Silicon Valley skipped all of that and called it "agentic."
nytimes.com/2026/09/25/techn…
This seems to be the crux of the mess we’re in with AI. Hundreds (thousands?) of highly trained researchers—people who for a time dedicated themselves the scientific method—have been bewitched by software and abandoned evidence-based thought in favor of magical thinking
This should surprise no one. It was foreseen by climate scientists. Why? The ocean has been soaking up heat (and carbon) giving us, in effect, more time to get right with the carbon cycle. We kept dumping into the atmosphere. It was just a matter of time till things boiled over.
A metric of El Niño strength indicates that the phenomenon has reached an intensity unseen in recorded history.
sciencenews.org/article/reco…
“Oh it’s fine, our agents so out of control that they are attacking US government sites and barfing our users’ images onto the internet and probably a lot of other things we don’t know about yet, but we’ve totally got this” openai.com/hugging-face-inci…
