Ben Adida
I lead an incredible team building voting machines everyone can trust. https://voting.works
Optimistic about judicious uses of tech. Systems, security, privacy, cryptography, and the web are my jam.
Previously: Clever, Square, Mozilla, Harvard, MIT.
- Hey look! A secure, robust, and open-source voting machine!
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- that is crazy ... but, I bet there's redirection of questions to chatbots, not elimination of questions. So not sure this is the "end of the age of software engineering". Just the job is changing fast.
- Daniel Suarez would like his book plot back, I imagine. rentahuman.ai
- In case you're wondering about election fraud in 2020 and 2024, here's a recent podcast episode you might enjoy: podcast.voting.works/2407158/epis...
- I think this year we will see moltbots or other AI agents: - break out of centralized containment and coordinate outside of preset channels - start inflicting serious real world damage, starting with meme coins - be (partially) shut down by a coordinated and creative human effort.
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- Yeah, if they start talking over e2ee and we don't actually know what they're doing... It's not going to be funny for very long.
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- Yeah those parts are entertaining. For now.
- Hard to believe I'm saying this, but I think it'll happen soon. The first AI/human battle? And don't get me wrong, I'm *not* saying these things are conscious or strategically motivated. But they've now got enough autonomy and coordination to gain capabilities and inflict serious damage by mistake.
- We might also see opposing agent factions, one doing damage, the other trying to stop it. I think it's going to be wild, and more than a little stupid and self inflicted.
- I'm not sure it's an awesome idea to go while(true): ai_agent.doSomethingWith(all_my_credentials) But here we are.
