Notes and links - 26th April

"There is also the widely reported multi-person Microsoft Teams call in which a financial department employee was manipulated by an AI-generated deepfake of their own CFO, alongside other AI-generated “colleagues,” into wiring more than 25 million U.S. dollars to Hong Kong bank accounts (Microtime). Whatever else that incident tells us, it confirms that the infrastructure to fake a convincing multi-person video call in real time exists and has been used."We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History, and Almost Nobody Has Noticed (via Alice)"For people who routinely use LLMs in their daily life, this question of agency and decision-making is also big issue. To what extent are we working with these tools, or working for them? When we offload to an LLM rather than using or developing our own skills and capabilities, what choices are we making? While I’m advocating for better participatory processes to open up national commissioning, it feels important to…