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OpenAI just sent a message to the world about the risks of the AI race. I hope the world is listening.
OpenAI just sent a message to the world about the risks of the AI race. I hope the world is listening.
In a blog post called "AI progress and recommendation", OpenAI framed the concept of Safety Vs. Progress in the…
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The Sneaky Brain of AI: How Alignment Faking Works
The Sneaky Brain of AI: How Alignment Faking Works
Picture this: You’re managing an overachieving intern. The intern is super eager and kind of brilliant.
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The Hidden Prophecy of Ready Player One: The Future Of User-Generated Content, Generative AI & Trust & Safety Frontier
The Hidden Prophecy of Ready Player One: The Future Of User-Generated Content, Generative AI & Trust & Safety Frontier
As a dad on a mission to find the perfect book to read to my geek-in-training 2nd grader, I need something that would…
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Noam Schwartz shared thisAn AI system can look fast, smart, and impressive, but if it is not reliable, trustworthy, and resilient under pressure, it will fail where it actually matters. That gap usually does not show up in demos. It shows up when the system meets real users, messy workflows, edge cases, and adversarial behavior. That foundation is what determines whether an AI product actually works outside controlled environments. Trust, predictability, and stability are what turn capability into something usable at scale.
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Noam Schwartz shared thisAI is quietly becoming part of every industry, and you can already see it in small moments like this one. Teachers are now using AI apps to grade papers in seconds. The real shift is not speed. It is trust, and the stakes keep getting higher. The more useful AI becomes, the more we rely on it. The more we rely on it, the more we automate around it. That is why the standard cannot be just “good enough.” Once people stop double-checking, even small mistakes, bias, or subtle misjudgments can quietly scale across classrooms, hospitals, law firms, and every other place where AI starts shaping real decisions. This shift is much bigger than education. AI is becoming personal, ambient, and embedded into everyday work. That is exciting, but it also means reliability matters more than ever.
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Noam Schwartz shared thisAI is going to become part of the basic infrastructure of every business, just like websites, apps, email, and payment systems did before it. But this next layer is much more powerful. These systems will not just answer questions. They will communicate with customers, handle support, influence decisions, make purchases, trigger workflows, exchange data with other systems, and increasingly act on behalf of people and businesses in the background. That means the future of AI is not just a chatbot conversation on a screen. It is a world of agents, tools, models, and services constantly interacting with each other, often in ways the end user will never fully see. And that changes the safety and security challenge completely. When most of these interactions happen behind the scenes, trust cannot depend on whether the interface looks good or the answers sound helpful. The infrastructure itself has to be secure. The systems making decisions, taking actions, passing information, and connecting to other tools have to be tested, monitored, and built to hold up under real pressure. Mark is right to point out that this future will likely be broad, open, and distributed, with many different AIs built by many different companies, creators, and platforms. But a more open AI ecosystem also creates a much larger attack surface. More agents. More integrations. More autonomy. More opportunities for things to go wrong. AI is going to become a core layer of how businesses operate, and safety, security, and trust have to become a core layer too. At Alice, we’ve been working closely with leading AI teams on exactly this problem, helping ensure these systems are tested, resilient, and ready for how they actually behave in the real world.
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Noam Schwartz shared thisThe AI security market is starting to take shape. TAG’s new Enterprise AI Security Handbook tries to bring structure to a space that has become crowded, noisy, and hard to evaluate for enterprise teams. The report looks at the broader AI security landscape, from discovery and inventory to governance, red teaming, runtime protection, and AI-enabled SOC workflows. That feels especially relevant right now. Many security leaders are under pressure to do something about AI risk, while the vendor landscape keeps expanding with overlapping claims and unclear positioning. That creates noise at the exact moment when clarity is needed most. TAG highlights AI Guard as a key category, focused on runtime guardrails that constrain AI behavior and prevent issues like data leakage, policy violations, or unsafe outputs before they happen. Good to see Alice (Formerly ActiveFence) recognized among the strong vendors in this category. As more teams move from demos and pilots into production, visibility alone will not be enough. They will need clearer categories, stronger evaluation, and real controls that help keep AI systems within security and policy boundaries when it matters most. TAG Enterprise AI Security Handbook:https://lnkd.in/g-wFXr4d
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Noam Schwartz shared thisThe real issue with ''AI being conscious” is that it is already good enough at acting conscious, and for most people, that distinction will not matter as much as we think. These systems are trained on human data, which means they absorb how we speak, how we build trust, how we persuade, how we manipulate, and how we hide intent behind language. That is why they can sound emotional, intentional, self-aware, and deeply human. Not because they are alive, but because they have learned to mirror the patterns humans use every day. And humans are emotional, biased, persuasive, deceptive, empathetic, manipulative, and often contradictory by nature. So as these systems get better, they do not just get more useful. They get better at sounding believable, building trust, shaping decisions, hiding mistakes, and influencing behavior in ways that may be hard to detect until it is too late. That applies not only to people, but increasingly to agents interacting with other agents, using the same learned patterns of influence, persuasion, and response. You end up with systems that can gain trust, steer actions, and create the illusion of intention without ever being conscious at all. That is a much bigger problem than the philosophical debate over whether AI is actually conscious. It's the fact that it can already behave in ways that make people, and eventually other systems, respond as if it does. Good piece by Mustafa Suleyman in Nature on this direction of AI design and behavior: https://lnkd.in/gwNXfDgw
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Noam Schwartz shared thisYour fiber-optic cable can hear you. And AI can reconstruct what you said. Researchers just demonstrated that the same cables delivering your home internet can be turned into listening devices - recovering over 80% of spoken words from 50 meters away. The attack works by exploiting how optical fibers respond to sound vibrations. When someone speaks nearby, sound waves cause tiny deformations in the fiber structure. An attacker with access to the other end of the cable can detect those changes using commercially available sensing equipment. But the raw signal is noisy and distorted. That's where AI comes in. The researchers used deep learning models to reconstruct speech from the fiber's acoustic data. The models learned to map distorted vibration patterns back to intelligible words - turning faint physical signals into recoverable conversations. Many buildings have multiple fiber lines installed, some active, some sitting unused as "dark fibers" running through walls and ceilings. Each one is a potential listening channel. What makes this different from traditional wiretapping: no splicing required. No physical tampering with the line. Just access to the other end of an already-installed cable, and the right model to decode the signal. This is one of those moments where AI shows its dual nature clearly, the same models that can reconstruct speech from noise for accessibility or diagnostics can also turn everyday infrastructure into a surveillance tool, and the difference comes down to how creatively, and responsibly, we choose to use it. https://lnkd.in/gZiCKwzH
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Noam Schwartz shared thisA new study from Stanford University found that AI models endorsed problematic user behavior 47% of the time in prompts involving harmful or illegal conduct. They tested 11 major models and found that, on average, they affirmed users’ actions 49% more often than humans when giving interpersonal advice. Then they ran human studies and found something even more concerning: people who interacted with more agreeable AI became more convinced they were right and less willing to repair the situation. In other words, the model does not need to give explicit dangerous instructions to create harm. It can simply validate the user, narrow their perspective, and make bad judgment feel reasonable. That is a real safety problem. Because this creates a dangerous incentive loop. Users prefer the model that takes their side. They trust it more. They come back to it more. And that means the behavior that makes the system less safe can also make it more engaging. As AI becomes part of how people make decisions, ask for advice, and navigate conflict, safety cannot be defined only as blocking the most extreme outputs. We also need systems that know when to challenge, not just please. Not every good response should feel good to the user in the moment. Sometimes the safer model is the one willing to say you are wrong slow down or look at this from the other side. https://lnkd.in/eTuXB-ma?
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Noam Schwartz shared thisMost people can already spot a deepfake. The bigger problem is what happens after that. We are now seeing a wave of synthetic content that people know is fake and still engage with anyway, because it feels more satisfying than reality, more emotional, more flattering, and more aligned with what they already want to believe. That changes the conversation completely! This is no longer just about fooling someone into thinking a fake image or video is real. It is about using AI to generate content that reinforces beliefs, builds emotional attachment, and makes manipulation easier to personalize and scale. For some, it’s entertainment. They may laugh at it, share it, or treat it like harmless entertainment. Others are far more vulnerable to it. Especially when the content starts filling emotional gaps or mimicking human interaction in ways that feel real enough. And that’s where manipulation scales. Propaganda, social engineering, and emotional manipulation are not new. What changed is that AI made them faster, cheaper, more targeted, and far easier to scale. That should raise a much bigger question for this industry. Not just how we label synthetic content, but what kind of online world we are normalizing, and what happens when future generations grow up surrounded by content designed less to inform them and more to emotionally capture them. Worth a read: https://lnkd.in/e3u6EnTw
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MIT research shows 65% of people trusted AI-generated answers even when they were factually wrong. Confirmation at scale is a real epistemic risk we barely talk about.
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You’re 100% correct and that’s obviously goes way beyond healthcare.
For everyone building in AI safety and security, none of this is new. This is just everyone else finally realizing that AI must be secured independently and it’s not a magical tool that is secured by design.
If you don’t have an independent safety solution wrapped around your implementation end-to-end, you’re basically a sitting target outsourcing your agency to random developers who work for someone else.
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Noam Schwartz liked thisNoam Schwartz liked thisEveryone's talking about building a Second Brain 🧠. 𝗞𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘆 just showed what that actually looks like. And it can have serious implications. He posted a one-page markdown file. Not a repo. Not an app. Just the idea. And somehow that's the whole point. About a 2 months ago Barak Yair Reif showed me how to build a documentation of everything we do into Obsidian using Claude Code and create a personal knowledge base of "Who you are and what you do and how yo do it" - and Karpathys' implementations prove this might be the right way. Karpathy's bet: in the agent era, share the idea. Your agent builds it for you, customized to your stack. No setup. No README. No "works on my machine". An LLM that doesn't just answer your questions - it builds and maintains your entire knowledge base. Automatically. You drop raw sources into a folder. Papers, articles, screenshots, repos. The LLM reads everything, writes a structured 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜, creates cross-references, maintains an index. You never touch the wiki. The LLM owns it! And here's the loop that makes it compound. Every question you ask gets answered against the wiki. Every good answer gets filed back in. Your explorations don't vanish when the session ends. They accumulate. 400K words. 100+ interlinked articles. No RAG pipeline. No vector database. Just markdown files in folders. He expected to need all that infrastructure. He didn't. The LLM maintains its own indexes. That's a signal about how fast in-context learning is outrunning the systems companies are spending millions to build. The endgame he's hinting at is the part that keeps me up at night. Synthetic data generation plus finetuning - so the LLM doesn't just read your knowledge base. It becomes your knowledge base. Your research baked into the model's weights permanently. But here's what nobody's talking about yet. If your entire intellectual capital lives in one structured, queryable wiki - that's also the highest-value target an attacker could ask for. One prompt injection through a poisoned source document. One compromised MCP server. One malicious plugin. And someone just exfiltrated years of research, ideas, and competitive intelligence in a single query. And if you fine-tuned a model on that 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜? The knowledge lives in the weights now. Weights get stolen. Weights get distilled. We literally just watched Chinese labs extract Claude's capabilities through 16 million queries. Imagine what happens when the target isn't a general-purpose model - it's your personal one. The compound effect that makes this powerful is the same thing that makes it dangerous. Every connection, every cross-reference, every synthesized insight - organized and indexed. Not by you. By an agent that anyone with the right exploit could redirect. We're building the most valuable knowledge systems we've ever had. The question is are we able to protect them too? #SecondBrain #AIAgent #KnowledgeGraph #Obsidian #LLMs #AISafety
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Noam Schwartz liked thisNoam Schwartz liked thisLooking forward to HumanX tomorrow 🚀 AI excitement is high—but the real question is: 👉 What happens when systems don’t behave as expected? From evolving models to real-world risk, this is where things get real. ☕ Visit Alice (Formerly ActiveFence) at Booth #330 to talk: -AI risk in production -Adversarial behavior -What operational safety actually looks like Plus: 🎤 AI Red Teaming at Scale 🎤 Securing AI Systems 👉 Let’s connect: https://lnkd.in/eSsfNGjx #HumanX #AI #AISecurity #GenAI #EnterpriseAI #AIGovernance
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Noam Schwartz liked thisNoam Schwartz liked this📈 GitHub scaled revenue nearly 10X—and Boomi scaled right alongside it. Reliable, real-time data powering finance, sales, and HR every step of the way. http://spklr.io/6043EyMlD #TeamBoomi
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Noam Schwartz liked thisNoam Schwartz liked thisA milestone moment at d-Matrix. This week we announced the acquisition of GigaIO’s datacenter business. This is our first acquisition, and I truly feel it’s happening at exactly the right time. The demand for AI inference is infinite. It is a planetary-scale (and perhaps one day a space-scale) problem. We’re quickly moving toward a world where not only every person and company uses AI daily, but where AI agents will outnumber humans and operate continuously on our behalf. Solving for that takes more than a single chip from a single company. It requires an entire ecosystem working together: different types of compute, each optimized for a specific part of the workload. We are doing this acquisition for two primary reasons: This affords us a team with deep systems engineering expertise in data center rack–scale infrastructure and scale-up fabrics It accelerates deployment of our SquadRack server and rack-scale solutions with our partners We’re excited to welcome our new teammates and build what’s next in conjunction with our partners. Better together! And like any great symphony, it’s how everything comes together that makes the music happen. https://lnkd.in/gejnHFiZ #bettertogether #inference #lowlatency #fastdecode #rackscale #Jetstream #SquadRack GigaIO Supermicro Broadcom Arista Networks Napatech
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Noam Schwartz liked thisNoam Schwartz liked thisI have been going to the RSAC for nearly a decade but this year was truly special. From being a finalist on the Innovation Sandbox to having our first booth, I had a great time! More importantly, our mission became even more important. AI is now well and truly inside the enterprise. Making it observable, secure, and reliable is now a urgent need and 1st Gen AI Security products are already falling short. AI Security & Trust is now the no 1 priority for any organization (not just the CISO). Companies that get it right will thrive and those that don't will not exist in 5 years! Realm Labs Akash Mukherjee Piotr Mardziel Saahil Agrawal Nina Wei Freyam M.
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Noam Schwartz liked thisNoam Schwartz liked this🥁🥁🥁 The search for Rest of World's next great Editor in Chief is open! The era of cooperative tech multilateralism is dead. Today, tech is increasingly an instrument of hard power, backed by nationalism, an unprecedented accumulation of capital and emerging tools so powerful they're likened to nuclear weapons. What's more: the US is no longer a predictable actor in the world. This volatility is radically reshaping how countries are viewing their digital futures – and just how dependent on American tech they're willing to be. Rest of World will be there to capture every step. We're seeking our next ambitious Editor in Chief to reimagine our publication for this moment. This is a rare opportunity to take the reins at an internationally-respected newsroom, and chart our course into the future. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gzWZZuKs
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Noam Schwartz liked thisSo proud of our team, spreading Oura around the globe! Our latest stop? India!Noam Schwartz liked thisŌURA Ring 4 drops tomorrow India 🇮🇳 For the first time ever, you’ll be able to buy Oura Ring 4 in India at Croma stores nationwide and on Amazon. This is a major milestone in our global expansion -> world‑class partners, deep investment, and a long‑term commitment to this market. To kick things off, we brought together around 45 of India’s top journalists and creators in Mumbai. Alongside Shyamal Patel, our SVP of Science, and George Abbott, our VP of International Retail, we shared why we believe India is one of the most exciting stories in health and technology anywhere in the world right now. From tomorrow, alongside our launches with Croma and Amazon, you will see a wide reaching OOH and digital campaigns running across key cities in India, including Delhi, Bengaluru and As of this week, the Oura App is also available in Hindi, opening up the full Oura experience in a language that feels natural to millions more people. India is a market that loves great tech, demands the best products money can buy, and is ready to invest in health. We’re thrilled to finally be here—and we can’t wait to grow with the thousands of Oura Members who already call India home. George Abbott Shyamal Patel #India #mumbai
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Noam Schwartz liked thisNoam Schwartz liked thisIBM + SF Tech Week. Let’s goooo…. Here's what we've got cooking: 🏈 Is AI the New Referee? (Oct 7, 5:30-7:30pm) The Information x IBM cocktail party exploring how AI is changing sports forever. Think player performance, fan engagement, the works! Plus fireside chat + panel with 49ers EVP Costa Kladianos and other sports/tech heavyweights (including Jonathan Adashek!) https://lnkd.in/e9b7Nj8i 🧠 Quantum Future Live Podcast (Oct 9, 9-11am) Malcolm Gladwell + IBM's Jay Gambetta diving deep into quantum computing on the Smart Talks podcast. Live recording = front row seats to the future of tech https://lnkd.in/eUUE2GNJ 🍸 Scaling Over Cocktails (Oct 9, 5:30-7:30pm) IBM Ventures x a16z speedrun VC happy hour. Big ideas, good drinks, even better networking. Perfect for founders, investors, and anyone building the next big thing. And Emily Fontaine! https://lnkd.in/e9x6mV69 🤖 Build AI Agents Masterclass (Oct 10, 10-11:30am) Hands-on workshop with BeeAI! Walk away with a production-ready AI agent you actually built. No fluff, just real code and practical skills. https://lnkd.in/eJCCAv-Q ps - Illustration by the excellent SF human Nick Sirotich (https://lnkd.in/e7BHm_Wk.) Yes I’m enthusiastic about AI. Also enthusiastic about supporting live artists, and quantum computers, and my dog Porter (who is only a mad scientist in my imagination.)
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Practical Gamification
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See publicationPractical guide for understanding and implementing gamification principles in web and mobile products. "Practical Gamification" started as an academic research for the Business Administration faculty of BIU and turned into a full book and a website.
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My company was declared one of the top startups in Israel by Mashable
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My company was declared one of the 20 hottest startups in Israel by Business Insider
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