Anthropic insider claims 10% extinction risk, Five Eyes push basics, Microsoft patches backfire
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Anthropic insider claims 10% extinction risk, Five Eyes push basics, Microsoft patches backfire

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 19, 202646 min
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AI Doomerism vs. Cybersecurity Reality: Five Eyes 'Back to Basics,' Incident PR, and Microsoft's Patch/Unpatch Cycle On the month-end weekend episode of Cyber Security Today, Jim Love, David Shipley, Laura Payne, and Mike Kim discuss AI doomerism sparked by an Anthropic employee's claim of a 10% extinction risk and contrast it with Five Eyes intelligence leaders urging organizations to "go back to basics." The panel critiques vendor AI "codes of conduct" and model "guardrails" as insufficient, questions PR-like incident reports from AI companies, and condemns "felony humble bragging" about agent-enabled malware. They...

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Welcome to Cyber Security. Today for the weekend, we are here with our month-end show. And looking back over the events that have happened over the past week, our guests are back with us. Mike Kim from Mycroft. Mike, welcome. Wow, good. Great to be back.

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Yeah, and the inimitable Laura. Laura, how are you doing? Oh, I'm good, Jim. How are you? And David, and you notice I've used, I'm on a first name basis with him. Mike's still new so we're still using the full name, but Laura Payne, David Shipley, yeah. Welcome both

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of you. We're gonna get started. David, you're gonna pick up the first topic for this week. Alright, so on deck, first story, and I know this is gonna get under Jim's skin in a hilarious way because before we started recording it already did. But AI doomerism, and of course it's everywhere. Anderson Cooper had a featured interview with a 27-year-old

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