EdTechSR Ep 338 AI Security Concerns

Check out our Episode 338 from October 23, 2024! (Although this episode published instantly to YouTube, we are late getting this posted on edtechSR.com and our Substack…) Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

1. Introducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku (Anthropic Blog; 22 October 2024)

2. Claude AI Can Now Control Your PC, Prompting Concern From Security Experts (Pc Magazine; 23 October 2024)

3. Anthropic flags AI’s potential to ‘automate sophisticated destructive cyber attacks (ZDnet, 16 Oct 2024)

4. “use wrapper with chatgpt ai key” https://mistyai.com and https://www.typingmind.com are ones Jason has used…

5. Playing with AI and databases: Google has options to connect sheets

6. https://www.make.com/en/ai-automation is a powerful tool for AI integrations

7. Also https://n8n.io/ is AI workflow automation

8. Chatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says (ArsTechnica, 23 Oct 2024)

9. Apple is ‘concerned’ about AI turning real photos into ‘fantasy’ (The Verge; 23 October 2023)

10. Canva has a shiny new text-to-image generator (The Verge; 22 October 2024)

11. San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks (ArsTechnica, 23 Oct 2024)

12. A world without passwords is in sight (Vox; 23 October 2024)

13. Zoom hack derails Quilcene school board’s LGBTQ+ books decision (PT Leader, 23 Oct 2024)

14. Passkeys with 1Password: https://1password.com/product/passkeys

15. Jason’s Geek of the Week: PROJECT! Install ChromeOS on PC with Google Play Store [Intel & AMD]

16. Wes’ Geeks of the Week: How internet influencers, algorithms and crowds are altering our politics, our society and our very relationship to reality-with guest Renée DiResta (Thinking Clearly Podcast) and Nov 4th “Invisibile Rulers” MediaEd Webinar

Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:

1. Google open-sourced its watermarking tool for AI-generated text (The Verge; 23 October 2024)

2. AI may not steal many jobs after all. It may just make workers more efficient (AP 2 September 2024)

3. Tom Hanks warns followers to be wary of 'fraudulent' ads using his likeness through AI (NBC News; 30 August 2024)

4. Apple Intelligence expands in iOS 18.2 developer beta, adding Genmoji, Visual Intelligence and ChatGPT (Engadget, 23 October 2024)

5. Ideogram Canvas, Magic Fill, and Extend (Ideogram; 22 October 2024)

6. Asana launches a no-code tool for designing AI agents - aka your new 'teammates' (ZDNet; 22 October 2024)

7. Unlocking autonomous agent capabilities with Microsoft Copilot Studio (Microsoft; 21 October 2024)

8. Penguin Random House books now explicitly say ‘no’ to AI training (The Verge; 18 October 2024)

9. 96% Accuracy: Harvard Scientists Unveil Revolutionary ChatGPT-Like AI for Cancer Diagnosis (Sci Tech Daily; 17 October 2024)

10. There’s something off about this year’s “fall vibes” (Vox; 22 October 2024)

11. Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the user’s mouse cursor (ArsTechnica, 22 Oct 2024)

12. Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC (ArsTechnica, 23 Oct 2024)

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