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Focus on AI: When AI Breaks the Rules - Can we ever control it?

Will AI end the world? Unfortunately recent events seem to focus more on inflammatory hype than practical solutions. AI needs better guardrails so it doesn’t get loose so easily. The question isn’t whether we should develop this technology, but how can we do it safely?

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Focus on AI: Vibe Coding - Trust the Vibe but Verify the Code

AI can now write software faster than we can review it. That’s great for productivity but potentially terrifying for cybersecurity. Vibe coding is turning everyone into a developer, but who’s securing all that code nobody really wrote?

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Fighting Back Fast: Artificial Intelligence Comes to Cybersecurity

Recently, more than $240,000 was stolen by someone pretending to be an executive at a British energy company. This event does not seem all that out of the ordinary, except that the executive was not a real person. Thieves used voice-mimicking software in order to imitate the real executive. And they got away with it. This scam was enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) that was used to create a realistic deep-fake imitation. It is being called the world’s first AI heist.

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