Why AI Makes Me Uneasy Let me preface this post by saying that the push by Tech Bros to insert generative AI into everything makes me deeply uneasy for several reasons. The hype they’ve built in their rush to create artificial general intelligence (AGI) has steered eye-watering amounts of money away from investments in other areas. While I understand that investors in AI aren’t likely to put their money into solving the climate crisis or…
My last update on the Cyber Cleanse I have been conducting was at the end of March. What have I been up to since then? It’s a bit like a tedious soap opera, with a few surprises as I go along. Once I cleaned out my primary Gmail accounts, I needed to sift through all my other online accounts, those for which I was using these email accounts as the user name. Let me say…
In January, I started Janet Vertesi’s Opt Out Project Cyber Cleanse. (Refer to my blog post for links to the Cyber Cleanse.) The Cyber Cleanse is meant to help you reclaim some of your online privacy. If you’re active at all online, you give up your privacy, simply by being there. Even if you attempt to do everything anonymously with tools to hide your location, computer forensics specialists can track you down eventually. The only…