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Vítor Brandão retweeted
Over the past few days, I've taken the time to summarize my thoughts on the recent incidents involving agents’ misaligned behavior. We don't know with certainty what comes next, but we know where these issues originate, and this can help us plan the path forward.
Please feel free to ask your questions in the replies, and I’ll try to answer some of them in the coming weeks.
yoshuabengio.org/en/publicat…
Vítor Brandão retweeted
Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.
Vítor Brandão retweeted
‼️🇵🇹 BLAT Studio (blatstudio.com), a Lisbon-based creative digital agency, has allegedly been breached, exposing personal data of Portuguese PSD political deputies and hashed credentials from multiple Portuguese university student associations.
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‣ Threat Actor: Boogeymann
‣ Category: Data Leak
‣ Victim: BLAT Studio (with downstream impact on PSD deputies and Portuguese universities)
‣ Industry: Marketing / Political / Education
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The actor states the data was obtained through an exposed Firebase database instance left without security rules. The breach impacts BLAT Studio's clients, which include Portugal's Social Democratic Party (PSD) and several student associations across Portuguese universities (ISCAL, IST, FADU, ESML, and others).
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What's in it:
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▪️ 119 university emails from student associations with hashed credentials (Base64 encoded + bcrypt)
▪️ 127 records of PSD political deputies, including names, addresses, phone numbers, work and personal emails, positions, and social media links (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn)
▪️ 1,018,396 lines of internal BLAT Studio communications with clients, including message bodies, timestamps, user IDs, attachments, and conversations
Vítor Brandão retweeted
I've spent the past few weeks reading 100s of public data sources about AI development. I now believe that recursive self-improvement has a 60% chance of happening by the end of 2028. In other words, AI systems might soon be capable of building themselves.
Vítor Brandão retweeted
NEW: We've issued Bristol City Council with an enforcement notice for their failure to respond to the public's information requests. Subject access requests are a fundamental right, this action requires them to clear their SAR backlog and make lasting improvements.
Vítor Brandão retweeted
Are you looking for a thread on the trade deal between the UK and India and the lies some people are telling about it, from a cat? If so, you're weird but in the right place...
Yesterday the UK and India announced a new free trade agreement, which it s estimated will add £5bn a year to the UK economy
gov.uk/government/news/uk-in…
Vítor Brandão retweeted
Have a look at the £2bn Bristol City Council ‘Leap Energy Partnership’ contract; to ‘support the aim of Bristol becoming a carbon neutral city by 2030’. One of my followers @WhatNeverNext highlighted this…. joannab.substack.com/p/ex-ma…