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BOP II Topic of the Week: Have you seen the Irish ad about internet safety? In the ad, a child walks through a shopping mall with her parents. Strangers approach her one after another, reciting personal details they have learned from her parents' social media posts. They mention her birthday, favorite foods, and even private family moments. It is cut like a dystopian horror short film to make us feel how unsettling it is when a child's life is exposed online without their consent. Brilliant or terrifying? Maybe both? 

Social media in frenzy over ‘terrifying’ Irish ad about internet safety

BOP II Topic of the Week: Future cyberattacks may deal less with stolen data and more with the "corruption of intelligence". 

We all rely on information every day whether that be directions, advice, or recipes. But what happens when AI information is quietly corrupted? Have you ever been given incorrect information that led you astray? That’s what corrupted data looks like in everyday life.

This article got me thinking about how much we depend on trustworthy information: 

The Next Cyber Crisis Will Corrupt Your Intelligence

Outdated OS and weak password (can you say John Podesta?). Windows XP and the password was "Louvre". 🙄

Link: $100 million stolen from the Louvre: The hack was Windows XP - Komando.com

BOP II Topic of the Week: Awareness does not equal safety. Do you agree? This article explores why awareness alone is insufficient and emphasizes the importance taking action. It introduces a 4-week plan to help businesses transform awareness into prevention-focused architecture. Do you rethinking cybersecurity will help us all be safer in cyberspace? 

Cybersecurity Awareness Isn’t Enough: Championing Prevention By Design

As usual, I answer the Question of the Week here and then I go to Kim Komando's website and find something fairly relevant. It's about companies using AI to answer calls to their customer support phone line. Some of the text of the article: Quick question: When’s the last time you really knew if you were chatting with a real human on a customer-service call? Turns out, in more places than you think, it’s not a person at all. It’s AI.

That might be fine when you’re asking a dumb question like, “What time do you close?” But what about when you’re dealing with a bank, insurance company or police report? Yeah, it matters. .

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Here’s what to watch for

Next time you hop into a customer service chat, pay attention. If there’s no mention that you’re talking to AI, ask: “Are you a real person?” You’re not being rude, you’re…

BOP II Topic of the Week: Are you curious to know how close Artificial Intelligence is to solving problems like a human learner? AI learns differently using patterns, probabilities, and data. Humans learn through experiences, intuition, creativity and lived context. Both can arrive at similar solutions, showing us that 'different but the same" might be an accurate way to describe this new frontier. Do you think AI's way of learning will ever match human intelligence?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-a-2-400-year-old-problem-shows-us-how-close-chatgpt-s-ai-is-to-human-intelligence/ar-AA1PcJ2J?ocid=BingNewsVerp