"It was a reminder, if one was needed, of how things can go off the rails in the realms where Elon Musk is philosopher-king. But the episode was more than that: It was a glimpse of deeper, systemic problems with large language models, or L.L.M.s, as well as the enormous challenge of understanding what these devices really are — and the danger…

"Across the U.S., app-based workers find themselves at the mercy of black-box algorithms that determine their wages, tasks, and employment status with little transparency. Through our research at the WAO, Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) and the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) group, we’re investigating…

"Foreign intelligence agencies can exploit...weakness, too. WeChat added some limited encryption features in 2016, according to Mona Wang, a research fellow at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab. But the security improvements still fall short of the encryption offered by other messaging apps like Signal or WhatsApp."…