Infosec guru Schneier worries corp AI will manipulate us
Corporate AI models are already skewed to serve their makers’ interests, and unless governments and academia step up to build transparent alternatives, the tech risks becoming just another tool for commercial manipulation.
That’s according to cryptography and privacy guru Bruce Schneier, who spoke to The Register last week following a keynote speech at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.
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