A counter to the over-outsourced public sector?
Author: Evan Menogue
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AI agents and defamation – OpenClaw off the rails
Appears to be the first case of the (very new experimental) ‘OpenClaw’ AI agent going wrong:Huge implications for automated defamation and harassment en masse! As well as the strongly ill-advised problem of letting the agents have full control over the ability to act on the internet.Not sure if this is the ‘NASA Space Shuttle Challenger disater’ – level inflection point (as suggested by AI export Simon Willison) where AI agent activities are ‘reset’, but it certainly points to where the possible problems might come from. -
Australian Liberals (re-) adopting immigration dog-whistle?
This time it also moves with global political shifts
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Om on how AI will be put to work, really
AI’s progression is following the arc of any transformative technology. Every time technology prompts you to ask three questions. The first question is existential. The second is epistemological. The third is practical—that is when it becomes invisible.
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The history and behind the scenes of the Internet Archive
I forgot I knew some of this and was around when it was set up!
https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting
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Privacy as property rights (in USA)
An analysis of the legal frameworks around privacy protection in the USA, with a suggestion that regarding privacy as ‘property’ might improve things (for Americans) over the status quo.Makes me glad I live in Australia, although things could still be improved…