Skynet

• The Helium Foundation, stewards of the Helium Network , the world’s first and largest decentralized wireless network powered by blockchain, today announced SkyNet IoT, a LoRaWAN multi-network hosting and roaming provider, is integrating with the Helium Network.
• “We are thrilled SkyNet IoT is integrating to roam on Helium to connect the unconnected regions across the world,” said Abhay Kumar, Helium Foundation CEO.
• “The synergy of SkyNet IoT and the Helium Network strengthens our position as leaders in advancing IoT connectivity on a global scale,” said Remy De Jong, SkyNet IoT Founder.
• Hundreds of thousands of Hotspots power the Helium Network that’s used by people around the world, including businesses, governments, and municipalities.

• New York, Sept. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CertiK , a leader in Web3 security and CrossAngle, the Web3 data intelligence provider behind the Xangle platform today announced a landmark strategic partnership to raise the standards of security and transparency across the Web3 ecosystem.
• Through this partnership, CrossAngle will feature CertiK research reports on the Xangle platform, which is available in both English and Korean.
• In return, CertiK will offer Xangle access to security data from Skynet, an all-in-one security insights dashboard for over 10,000 Web3 platforms.
• "We are thrilled to partner with Xangle, a leader in Web3 data analytics,” said Jason Jiang, Chief Business Officer at CertiK.

• New York, Sept. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CertiK , a leader in Web3 security and CrossAngle, the Web3 data intelligence provider behind the Xangle platform today announced a landmark strategic partnership to raise the standards of security and transparency across the Web3 ecosystem.
• Through this partnership, CrossAngle will feature CertiK research reports on the Xangle platform, which is available in both English and Korean.
• In return, CertiK will offer Xangle access to security data from Skynet, an all-in-one security insights dashboard for over 10,000 Web3 platforms.
• "We are thrilled to partner with Xangle, a leader in Web3 data analytics,” said Jason Jiang, Chief Business Officer at CertiK.

• The rise of ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence systems has been accompanied by a sharp increase in anxiety about AI.
• Worries peaked in May 2023 when the nonprofit research and advocacy organization Center for AI Safety released a one-sentence statement: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from A.I.
• And, in its most extreme version, this argument morphs into explicit anxieties about AIs enslaving or destroying the human race.

Actual harm

• Yes, AI’s ability to create convincing deep-fake video and audio is frightening, and it can be abused by people with bad intent.
• In fact, that is already happening: Russian operatives likely attempted to embarrass Kremlin critic Bill Browder by ensnaring him in a conversation with an avatar for former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
• Cybercriminals have been using AI voice cloning for a variety of crimes – from high-tech heists to ordinary scams.

Not in the same league

• The statement from the Center for AI Safety lumped AI in with pandemics and nuclear weapons as a major risk to civilization.
• COVID-19 resulted in almost 7 million deaths worldwide, brought on a massive and continuing mental health crisis and created economic challenges, including chronic supply chain shortages and runaway inflation.
• They have also changed the calculations of national leaders on how to respond to international aggression, as currently playing out with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

What it means to be human

• AI in its current form can alter the way people view themselves.
• It can degrade abilities and experiences that people consider essential to being human.
• But the role of algorithmic recommendation engines is to reduce that kind of serendipity and replace it with planning and prediction.
• If it does, educators will lose a key tool for teaching students how to think critically.

Not dead but diminished

• But the increasingly uncritical embrace of it, in a variety of narrow contexts, means the gradual erosion of some of humans’ most important skills.
• Algorithms are already undermining people’s capacity to make judgments, enjoy serendipitous encounters and hone critical thinking.
• The fantastic anxieties around the coming AI cataclysm, singularity, Skynet, or however you might think of it, obscure these more subtle costs.