Reposted by Karl LewisDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 02/11/2025i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake 1/ 3610172
Reposted by Karl LewisPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 01/11/2025F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby 217121842526
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 31/10/2025Deleting my 18-year-old Reddit account is causing more sadness than I thought. It's like having a conversation with my younger self and his crazy phases. 000
Reposted by Karl LewisZito @zeets.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same 388124781872
Reposted by Karl Lewis"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 29/10/2025If you need to explain to an idiot why Tolkien would have despised these goons, I have already grabbed a picture of the relevant passage (and I doubt I was the first): 382001561
Reposted by Karl LewisJoanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Anecdotally, AI chatbot users who develop psychosis seem to mostly engage in immersion with and deification of chatbots. Immersion involves countless hours spent in discourse, often to the exclusion of human interaction, sleep, and sometimes even eating or drinking. www.bmj.com/content/391/....bmj.comCan AI chatbots validate delusional thinking?The extent to which AI chatbots have a causal role in delusions and delusion-like beliefs remains unclear, writes Joseph M Pierre Reports of people having delusions that were seemingly fuelled by ge... 2154
Reposted by Karl LewisKim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 24/10/2025"iOS 26 change deletes clues of old spyware infections" You're damned if you update and damned if you don't 1189
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 24/10/2025like seriously. but… that combination of high modernism and AI bro culture is like a boss fight from hell 083
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 24/10/2025The absolute cackle I just let out when I saw Brad Pitt made me slightly less depressed from this thread 000
Reposted by Karl LewisCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/10/20251. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products. 16754356
Reposted by Karl LewisPeople's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 22/10/2025let's fire an unpopular take, while we're here. in 2025, a substantial percentage, perhaps a supermajority of claims to be "working class" are actually a sort of Foucauldian jostle for - ironically - power, an attempt to legitimise your actions through the cosplay of being the Right Kind of Person 2258985
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 23/10/2025"We prioritized safety as we built ChatGPT’s agent capabilities in Atlas" 000
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 22/10/2025Finally making my way through Seeing Like A State by James C. Scott and found this quote: "We must keep in mind not only the capacity of state simplifications to transform the world but also the capacity of the society to modify, subvert, block, and even overturn the categories imposed upon it." 120
Reposted by Karl LewisThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/10/2025Salesforce told ICE that its A.I. software could help the agency nearly triple its staff, according to internal documents, as President Trump expands immigration raids and deportations around the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u... 126503303
Reposted by Karl Lewisverdverm @verdverm.com · 16/10/2025The Ad Bubble is way bigger than the Ai Bubble joindatacops.com/resources/ho...joindatacops.comHow 73% of Your E-commerce Visitors Could Be FakeA conversion rate of less than 0.1%. That was the moment I realized something was fundamentally broken with the way we measure success on the internet. 79126
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 16/10/2025Seeing the drop in philosophy majors hits home. My first major in college was Philosophy. I had taken an Honors Humanities course in high school and spent most of my summer reading Aristotle and Plato (not that I got any of it, but that's how excited I was). I loved year 1 of Uni. 120
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 16/10/2025This drops while they announce even more layoffs for the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). F5 is used a lot more than you think, but more importantly it shows a continuing trend of "catastrophic" breaches happening not only more frequently, but going unnoticed. 001
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 16/10/2025With all these fancy new AI-powered "revolutionary" security tools getting flooded into the market, this is actually a refreshing review of what's currently out there and what they can actually dojoshua.huHacking with AI SASTs: An overview of ‘AI Security Engineers’ / ‘LLM Security Scanners’ for Penetration Testers and Security TeamsNote: This post is complemented by a presentation I gave at KazHackStan 2025. The slides (which were prepared fewer than 24 hours before the actual presentation) for that talk can be found here, or in... 001
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 12/10/2025The 1st edition was arguably one of the best Oreily books I've read. Can't wait to dig into this 010
Reposted by Karl LewisSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use. 172270760
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 12/10/2025The sponsored model is bad enough, but the risk of poisoning models is not nearly as hard as people think. I've sat in meetings where the concept of "SEO" for AI has come up (called "GEO" for generative engine optimization). Fun times aheadarxiv.orgPoisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison SamplesPoisoning attacks can compromise the safety of large language models (LLMs) by injecting malicious documents into their training data. Existing work has studied pretraining poisoning assuming adversar... 061
Reposted by Karl LewisCynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 11/10/2025If anyone has more details on the supposed mass firings at CISA, contact me at Cynthia.507 via Signsl. 186
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 11/10/2025This is truly terrifying and should not be buried amongst all the craziness we're already witnessing. 035
Reposted by Karl LewisCynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 11/10/2025nypost.com/2025/10/10/u... Cybersecurity agency that clashed with Trump one of the first hit with federal firings due to government shutdownnypost.comCybersecurity agency that clashed with Trump one of the first hit with federal firings due to government shutdownCISA plans to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65% of its workforce. 134
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 11/10/2025Someone should do a deep dive on how security breaches and attacks map to shiny, sudden, unexpected press releases made to capture attention. Let's not forget what's happening underneath the surface for SFDCarstechnica.comSalesforce says it won’t pay extortion demand in 1 billion records breachScattered LAPSUS$ Hunters gave Salesforce until Friday to pay or else. 100
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 11/10/2025One Battle After Another is absolutely worth a trip to the movies. Just walked out and already considering a rewatch. Might be the best film I've seen in a while that seems to actively promote drinking and driving. Sean Penn's walk >>>>> 000
Reposted by Karl LewisCynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 09/10/2025www.bloomberg.com/news/article... How are we not dead yet? The federal government is just hanging by a thread cybersecurity-wise.bloomberg.comHomeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation PushThe US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ... 052
Reposted by Karl LewisAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/10/2025There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime. With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone. www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...businessinsider.comApple removes ICEBlock app from App StoreApple on Thursday removed the immigration enforcement tracking app, ICEBlock, from the App Store, citing "safety risks." 912404902
Reposted by Karl LewisM. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Thank you to The Royal Institute of Philosophy (@triphilosophy.bsky.social) and the department of Philosophy @sussex.ac.uk for the invitation to speak at this exciting event next week 🎙️💡🤖 3166
Reposted by Karl LewisMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25. 647249378241
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 02/10/2025For the security folks out there that are going to be asked the inevitable "are we vulnerable?", MITRE is your friend: attack.mitre.org/software/S06...attack.mitre.orgClop, Software S0611 | MITRE ATT&CK® 000
Reposted by Karl LewisThe Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics @iethics.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Using #AI well requires a certain level of AI literacy. AI #ethics literacy is a part of AI literacy: scu.edu/ethics/focus... #education #highered #tech #SiliconValleyscu.edu 153
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 01/10/2025Every camera, every face-scanning API becomes a vector for both protection AND more importantly coercion. What assurance do citizens have when the silent partner in policing is a private corporation whose motive is profit, not justice? 010
Reposted by Karl LewisDanny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2025It's October, so that means it's Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Please be aware of cybersecurity. Thank you. 75311
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 01/10/2025The idea that the “best CISOs aren’t technical” is hurting us. Spend time with engineers. Sit in code reviews. Watch how auth really breaks. Credibility comes from bridging worlds, not hiding behind meetings. And trust me, engineers understand the business more than the suits like to admit. 110
Reposted by Karl LewisSandy @sandysue1958.bsky.social · 28/09/2025What’s one book that changed your life? Mine? My passport. 11192166
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 28/09/2025A thread of late-night reflection on adversarial AI. Intelligence... human or machine... is fragile. Tilt the frame, nudge the inputs, and what we thought was truth dissolves into confident nonsense. 100
Reposted by Karl LewisJoanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 28/09/2025“Landmark study” where openai comes to understand what we’ve been telling them about their own software for three years. (I’m sure many have been saying it for longer.) 54822
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 28/09/2025If you've been in leadership meetings about technology like this, then you know. The real alarm bell: people at his level only talk like this after the proof of concept is done and the core infrastructure is locked in. This isn’t speculation or "prediction", it’s a signal that deployment is ready. 010
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 28/09/2025We def need a bigger study of this. The dark horse here won't just be the brogrammer claims, but real risks to software supply chain security, new adversarial AI attacks, and the downstream effects of technical debt on teams being told they need to do more with less actual humans in the loop. 010
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 26/09/2025Wow. I feel late to the party. Accidentally wandered into Philosophy Bluesky. Place instantly leveled up. My feed is now less memes and more existential dread, and I love it. 0100
Reposted by Karl LewisJoanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 26/09/2025How can this important of a story be an exclusive? #AIEthics www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...theguardian.comMicrosoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of PalestiniansExclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project 2116
Karl Lewis @karl-lewis.com · 26/09/2025Late night thoughts after another meeting promoting the careless use of agentic ai: we built an internet that remembers too much and understands too little. I'm about 2/3rds through Surveillance Capitalism and it might be the most important book I've read in the last few years. 121
Reposted by Karl Lewisillumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 22/09/2025me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines 3977971964