I have exciting news. My new O'Reilly book Hacker Culture: A to Z (which is already available in paperback and eBook) will be available in audiobook format on January 9th 2024.
You should be able to preorder the audiobook from audiobooks.com, Google Play, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers about 30 days before publication. Which means very soon.
So, the Speaker of the House of the United States of America has an app installed on is phone to "scan for porn use". An app that is granted access to scan EVERYTHING he does on his phone.
I'm always a bit skeptical of presentations from tech company CEOs on
how their product areas are necessary in the mental health field.
That said, this article has a few good points:
/"Umar Nizamani, CEO, International, at NiceDay, emphasised that AI will
inevitably become an essential tool in mental health care: 'I am very
confident AI will not replace therapists – but therapists using AI will
replace therapists not using AI.'"//
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I am beginning to think this also -- for better or worse. I took a VERY
fast 60 second look at NiceDay and it appears to be another
all-encompassing EHR, but with a strong emphasis on data. Lots of tools
and questionnaires and attractive graphs for therapists to monitor
symptoms. (I need to take a longer look later.) So data-driven could
be very good, if it does not crowd out the human touch.
/"Nizamani said there had been suicides caused by AI, citing the case of
a person in Belgium who died by suicide after downloading an anxiety
app. The individual was anxious about climate change. The app suggested
'if you did not exist' it would help the planet, said Nizamani."//
/
YIKES... So, yes, his point that care in implementation is needed is
critical. I worry at the speed of the gold-rush.
/"He [//Nizamni] //called on the industry to come together to ensure
that mental health systems using AI and data are 'explainable’,
'transparent', and 'accountable'." //
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This has been my biggest focus so far, coming from an Internet security
background when I was younger.
/"Arden Tomison, CEO and founder of Thalamos"/ spoke on how his company
automates and streamlines complex bureaucracy and paperwork to both
speed patients getting help and extract the useful data from the forms
for clinicians to use. More at: https://www.thalamos.co.uk/
/"Dr Stefano Goria, co-founder and CTO at Thymia, gave an example of
'frontier AI': 'mental health biomarkers' which are 'driving towards
precision medicine' in mental health. Goria said thymia’s biomarkers
(e.g. how someone sounds, or how they appear in a video) could help
clinicians be aware of symptoms and diagnose conditions that are often
missed."//
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Now THIS is how I'd like to receive my AI augmentation. Give me
improved diagnostic tools rather than replacing me with chatbots or
over-crowding the therapy process with too much automated tool data
collection (some is good). I just want this to remain in the hands of
the solo practitioner rather than being a performance monitor on us by
insurance companies. I want to see empowered clinicians.
@admin@psychotherapist@psychology@socialpsych@infosec
We need cross-discipline digital literacy. AI advances that improve one discipline are often exploited in others. When you celebrate diagnosis mental health biomarkers (how someone sounds, or how they appear in a video), this information is coveted by data brokers who would love to sell it. MH video is unacceptable until security improves. Even then, it will be risky.
Hey, hacker fam. Quick update on what's going to be a big week.
Tomorrow I'm flying out to Bellevue and Wednesday I'm speaking at #BlueHat about the work @SophosXOps has done helping #Microsoft protect all Windows users from a very devious attack.
After I return, I'm in full-swing campaign mode running for the #BVSD#SchoolBoard. I've been doing door-knocking and meet-and-greet for days. Yesterday I spent hours giving out water to marathon runners here in #boulder
Next week though - I'll be participating in a candidate forum hosted by BVSD and you will be able to watch it live from anywhere because it will be broadcast by #livestream on BVSD's Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@bouldervalleyschooldistric5781/streams). October 18 from 6pm-7:30pm MDT (UTC -6)
You can read up now on the forum and ** you can even submit questions.**
I set it up a long time ago, so I don’t honestly remember. I followed some guide, and did a few domain redirects to point at stuff on my home network and to shut Zuck out of my life, but I didn’t do anything crazy. So, I doubt it, but I don’t know.
Sorry missed the link provided. There is no feed. Alternatively in Inoreader (paid version) for instance (and other sources) you can monitor the page for changes.
So wait building all these "secure" chat apps on a browser engine packaged in a thin layer of UI, with its insane number of dependencies and the gigantic, immense attack surface that this entails, was somehow a bad idea?
Who knew! Who could have foreseen this! Shocking, really.
I usually just browse the #InfoSec.exchange Local feed, but I think it’s time to adopt better practices and start following people. Any suggestions for the best of Infosec #Fediverse to follow?
@avuko@happygeek@jerry After my upgrade to iOS 17, there was a screen after reboot explicitly asking if I wanted to share analytics. I said “no.” I just checked and the current settings reflect that it is correctly off.