Why AI Is So Good at Scamming Humans
Menlo Park Intelligence researcher Fred Heiding discusses frontier models' capacity to influence humans, enable scams, and build emotional dependency.
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Batten the Hatches: Cybersecurity with Military Mariners
Interviews with 20 U.S. Navy and Coast Guard mariners reveal informal, safety-oriented shipboard cyber risk models that may delay attribution and containment.
Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0 (1999)
Seminal 1999 USENIX study finds most novice users cannot correctly sign and encrypt email with PGP 5.0 in 90 minutes.
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AI for Military Support
Study of 2,015 Israeli military personnel found algorithmic aversion toward AI targeting decision support, reduced when explainable AI features were added.