The success rate of adversarial attacks on LLMs is scarily high (from Stanford HAI report)

The paper cited is both fascinating & sobering
arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15043…

And the 1st author Andy Zhou clearly someone to watch!
andyzoujm.github.io
#LMEthicalAI

This is a measured argument that Metropolitan Police should address seriously.

We have written to Biteback publishing regarding a fabricated quote, attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild, being used in 'Ten Years to Save the West'. They have apologised and have promised it will be removed for the e-book & any future print editions.

Full quote here ⬇️

Fascinating article by Prof Ken Dark indicating that a 19th C local tradition in Nazareth seems to have been reliable despite the physical evidence being inaccessible for 700y.
bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/how-m…

.Human Flourishing Program: 'weekly religious service attendance is longitudinally associated w lower mortality risk, lower depression, less suicide, better cardiovascular disease survival, better health behaviors, greater marital stability, happiness, & purpose in life'
harvardpublichealth.org/policy-practic…

The Thames Water OpCo should be sold to United Utilities or Severn Trent - they know how to run such a business properly - on the understanding that they'd spin it out within 5y.
This agony is in no-ones interests.
ft.com/content/2f0be3… via @ft

Why Boeing chief’s $33mn pay is hard to justify.

No. IMPOSSIBLE to justify.

ft.com/content/c3683f… via @ft

Courageous & necessary. But since Boeing was allowed to swallow all US competitors for airliners they are a dangerous monopoly. Make sure this doesn’t happen/remain the case in other areas.
thetimes.co.uk/article/boeing…

Minouche Shafik: An outstanding individual, showing how it should be done.
thetimes.co.uk/article/columb…

This story on @UnHerd may be going too far. But the fact that profit-seeking firms seeking to supress disinformation seem to be making lots of political judgements is concerning. Disinformation is a serious problem - so is AI Groupthink.

unherd.com/2024/04/inside…

Did she also consider running a marathon in under 1h30, levitating during PMQs & sacking President Macron? We knew she was delusional, but…
(Liz Truss considered sacking Andrew Bailey as BoE governor after ‘mini’ Budget)
ft.com/content/cf64f9… via @ft

We've been watching Staged (after all these years). Brilliant!
This is the moment they're handed their scripts on a live episode - & the script is blank except at the end, when it says 'improvise your way out of this, you bastards'😂😂

It’s clearly fair to tax inheritance, & avoiding IHT is shameful.

But maybe better to tax receipts (gifts or inheritances) as if they were income. Why should someone who earns £100k pay more tax than someone who receives £100k unearned?

ft.com/content/a883fd… via @ft

The Times says Truss claims her ‘Disastrous Mini-Budget™ would have worked were it not for… experts… “Part of the problem we faced was a distinct shortage of expert voices supporting our agenda.”…so annoying when experts refuse to endorse idiocy.’

thetimes.co.uk/article/liz-tr…

And in our latest budget we fecklessly froze defence spending and fuel duties!

(But Matthew Syed please don’t repeat the lie that the US military aid to Ukraine is about sending $bns. It’s 90+% spending the money in the US)
thetimes.co.uk/article/europe…

The tide is turning. But all this happened under Conservative governments where most ministers were too busy fighting each other & took their eye off the ball in so many areas. There have been 9 different ministers for women & equalities in 14 years.
thetimes.co.uk/article/gaggin…