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Artificial intelligence has become a national security concern. That has federal officials rethinking how lightly it should regulate the technology.

Both parties can agree to do a whole lot on A.I., but they have to move faster.

The supplier of license plate readers and other public safety tech has come under fire for privacy, immigration, data sharing and other concerns. The new tool aims to ease some of the worries about Flock’s products.

Earlier this month the AI company Anthropic said it had created a model so powerful that, out of a sense of responsibility, it was not going to release it to the public. Anthropic says the model, Mythos Preview, excels at spotting and exploiting vulnerabilities in software, and could pose a severe risk to economies, public safety and national security. But is this the whole story? Some experts have expressed scepticism about the extent of the model’s capabilities. Ian Sample hears from Aisha Down, a reporter covering artificial intelligence for the Guardian, to find what the decision to limit access to Mythos reveals about Anthropic’s strategy, and whether the model might finally spur more regulation of the industry. ‘Too powerful for the public’: inside Anthropic’s bid to win the AI publicity war Support the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Continue reading...

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When voters in the forthcoming Hungarian election assess the current government, its record on internet security will not be one of its proudest achievements. An analysis by open source investigation organization Bellingcat has revealed that the passwords for almost 800 Hungarian government email accounts are circulating online, many of them associated with national security. These breaches in security are not down to high-tech attacks but rather are the result of poor email hygiene among government employees. The security leaks were widespread: 12 out of 13 government departments were affected. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s administration likes to present itself as firm protector of Hungarian borders, resisting foreign interference, but this doesn’t seem to apply to its computing prowess. Among those whose details were revealed were an officer responsible for information security and a counter-terrorism expert. Bellingcat found that government officials have been using weak