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Our guest this week is Chris Painter, the Director of Technical Product Management at CNH Industrial. In this conversation, co-host Mike Oitzman and Chris talk about the advancements in precision agriculture, the critical role of connectivity, and the challenges faced by farmers in rural areas. They discuss the importance of real-time data for operational efficiency, the future of autonomy in farming, and the impact of AI on agricultural technology. Chris emphasizes the need for continuous connectivity to support autonomous vehicles and the ongoing challenges of labor in the agricultural sector. On the show we also catch up on the latest robotics news of the week including layoffs at Teradyne and Cruise, as well as the latest high reach mobile manipulator from Brightpick called "Giraffe". To learn more about CNH Industrial goto: https://www.cnh.com/
Gwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer. He was one of the first people to see LLM scaling coming. If you've read his blog, you know he's one of the most interesting polymathic thinkers alive.In order to protect Gwern's anonymity, I proposed interviewing him in person, and having my friend Chris Painter voice over his words after. This amused him enough that he agreed.After the episode, I convinced Gwern to create a donation page where people can help sustain what he's up to. Please go here to contribute.Read the full transcript here.Sponsors:* Jane Street is looking to hire their next generation of leaders. Their deep learning team is looking for ML researchers, FPGA programmers, and CUDA programmers. Summer internships are open - if you want to stand out, take a crack at their new Kaggle competition. To learn more, go here: https://jane-st.co/dwarkesh* Turing provides complete post-training services for leading AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Gemini. They specialize in model evaluation, SFT, RLHF, and DPO to enhance models' reasoning, coding, and multimodal capabilities. Learn more at turing.com/dwarkesh.* This episode is brought to you by Stripe, financial infrastructure for the internet. Millions of companies from Anthropic to Amazon use Stripe to accept payments, automate financial processes and grow their revenue.If you're interested in advertising on the podcast, check out this page.Timestamps00:00:00 - Anonymity00:01:09 - Automating Steve Jobs00:04:38 - Isaac Newton's theory of progress00:06:36 - Grand theory of intelligence00:10:39 - Seeing scaling early00:21:04 - AGI Timelines00:22:54 - What to do in remaining 3 years until AGI00:26:29 - Influencing the shoggoth with writing00:30:50 - Human vs artificial intelligence00:33:52 - Rabbit holes00:38:48 - Hearing impairment00:43:00 - Wikipedia editing00:47:43 - Gwern.net00:50:20 - Counterfactual careers00:54:30 - Borges & literature01:01:32 - Gwern's intelligence and process01:11:03 - A day in the life of Gwern01:19:16 - Gwern's finances01:25:05 - The diversity of AI minds01:27:24 - GLP drugs and obesity01:31:08 - Drug experimentation01:33:40 - Parasocial relationships01:35:23 - Open rabbit holes Get full access to Dwarkesh Podcast at www.dwarkeshpatel.com/subscribe
Chris Painter is my guest for this episode of the podcast. Chris is the technology director for Blackford County Schools in Hartford City, Indiana which as a fleet of 1,800 devices. During our conversation Chris shares his best practices and tips for collecting, inventorying, and repairing a Chromebook fleet and getting them ready for the new school year. Episode Sponsor: VIZOR for Chromebooks VIZOR provides Chromebook 1:1 Management Software for Schools. Get 20% off your first year when you schedule a no-obligation demo. Show notes and links: chrmbook.com/s8e14/ ----------------------------- Thanks for tuning into the Chromebook Classroom Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, I would appreciate your honest rating and review! You can connect with me, John Sowash, on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. I would love to hear your thoughts on the show!
Washington Post intelligence and national security reporter Shane Harris and columnist and associate editor David Ignatius speak with Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, former CISA director Chris Krebs and former State Department cyber coordinator Chris Painter about how America can protect its cybersecurity and prepare for the next generation of threats.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: What I would do if I wasn't at ARC Evals, published by Lawrence Chan on September 5, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. In which: I list 9 projects that I would work on if I wasn't busy working on safety standards at ARC Evals, and explain why they might be good to work on. Epistemic status: I'm prioritizing getting this out fast as opposed to writing it carefully. I've thought for at least a few hours and talked to a few people I trust about each of the following projects, but I haven't done that much digging into each of these, and it's likely that I'm wrong about many material facts. I also make little claim to the novelty of the projects. I'd recommend looking into these yourself before committing to doing them. (Total time spent writing or editing this post: ~8 hours.) Standard disclaimer: I'm writing this in my own capacity. The views expressed are my own, and should not be taken to represent the views of ARC/FAR/LTFF/Lightspeed or any other org or program I'm involved with. Thanks to Ajeya Cotra, Caleb Parikh, Chris Painter, Daniel Filan, Rachel Freedman, Rohin Shah, Thomas Kwa, and others for comments and feedback. Introduction I'm currently working as a researcher on the Alignment Research Center Evaluations Team (ARC Evals), where I'm working on lab safety standards. I'm reasonably sure that this is one of the most useful things I could be doing with my life. Unfortunately, there's a lot of problems to solve in the world, and lots of balls that are being dropped, that I don't have time to get to thanks to my day job. Here's an unsorted and incomplete list of projects that I would consider doing if I wasn't at ARC Evals: Ambitious mechanistic interpretability. Getting people to write papers/writing papers myself. Creating concrete projects and research agendas. Working on OP's funding bottleneck. Working on everyone else's funding bottleneck. Running the Long-Term Future Fund. Onboarding senior(-ish) academics and research engineers. Extending the young-EA mentorship pipeline. Writing blog posts/giving takes. I've categorized these projects into three broad categories and will discuss each in turn below. For each project, I'll also list who I think should work on them, as well as some of my key uncertainties. Note that this document isn't really written for myself to decide between projects, but instead as a list of some promising projects for someone with a similar skillset to me. As such, there's not much discussion of personal fit. If you're interested in working on any of the projects, please reach out or post in the comments below! Relevant beliefs I have Before jumping into the projects I think people should work on, I think it's worth outlining some of my core beliefs that inform my thinking and project selection: Importance of A(G)I safety: I think A(G)I Safety is one of the most important problems to work on, and all the projects below are thus aimed at AI Safety. Value beyond technical research: Technical AI Safety (AIS) research is crucial, but other types of work are valuable as well. Efforts aimed at improving AI governance, grantmaking, and community building are important and we should give more credit to those doing good work in those areas. High discount rate for current EA/AIS funding: There's several reasons for this: first, EA/AIS Funders are currently in a unique position due to a surge in AI Safety interest without a proportional increase in funding. I expect this dynamic to change and our influence to wane as additional funding and governments enter this space. Second, efforts today are important for paving the path to future efforts in the future. Third, my timelines are relatively short, which increases the importance of current funding. Building a robust EA/AIS ecosystem: The EA/AIS ecosystem should be more prepared for unpredictable s...
Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: What I would do if I wasn't at ARC Evals, published by Lawrence Chan on September 5, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. In which: I list 9 projects that I would work on if I wasn't busy working on safety standards at ARC Evals, and explain why they might be good to work on. Epistemic status: I'm prioritizing getting this out fast as opposed to writing it carefully. I've thought for at least a few hours and talked to a few people I trust about each of the following projects, but I haven't done that much digging into each of these, and it's likely that I'm wrong about many material facts. I also make little claim to the novelty of the projects. I'd recommend looking into these yourself before committing to doing them. (Total time spent writing or editing this post: ~8 hours.) Standard disclaimer: I'm writing this in my own capacity. The views expressed are my own, and should not be taken to represent the views of ARC/FAR/LTFF/Lightspeed or any other org or program I'm involved with. Thanks to Ajeya Cotra, Caleb Parikh, Chris Painter, Daniel Filan, Rachel Freedman, Rohin Shah, Thomas Kwa, and others for comments and feedback. Introduction I'm currently working as a researcher on the Alignment Research Center Evaluations Team (ARC Evals), where I'm working on lab safety standards. I'm reasonably sure that this is one of the most useful things I could be doing with my life. Unfortunately, there's a lot of problems to solve in the world, and lots of balls that are being dropped, that I don't have time to get to thanks to my day job. Here's an unsorted and incomplete list of projects that I would consider doing if I wasn't at ARC Evals: Ambitious mechanistic interpretability. Getting people to write papers/writing papers myself. Creating concrete projects and research agendas. Working on OP's funding bottleneck. Working on everyone else's funding bottleneck. Running the Long-Term Future Fund. Onboarding senior(-ish) academics and research engineers. Extending the young-EA mentorship pipeline. Writing blog posts/giving takes. I've categorized these projects into three broad categories and will discuss each in turn below. For each project, I'll also list who I think should work on them, as well as some of my key uncertainties. Note that this document isn't really written for myself to decide between projects, but instead as a list of some promising projects for someone with a similar skillset to me. As such, there's not much discussion of personal fit. If you're interested in working on any of the projects, please reach out or post in the comments below! Relevant beliefs I have Before jumping into the projects I think people should work on, I think it's worth outlining some of my core beliefs that inform my thinking and project selection: Importance of A(G)I safety: I think A(G)I Safety is one of the most important problems to work on, and all the projects below are thus aimed at AI Safety. Value beyond technical research: Technical AI Safety (AIS) research is crucial, but other types of work are valuable as well. Efforts aimed at improving AI governance, grantmaking, and community building are important and we should give more credit to those doing good work in those areas. High discount rate for current EA/AIS funding: There's several reasons for this: first, EA/AIS Funders are currently in a unique position due to a surge in AI Safety interest without a proportional increase in funding. I expect this dynamic to change and our influence to wane as additional funding and governments enter this space. Second, efforts today are important for paving the path to future efforts in the future. Third, my timelines are relatively short, which increases the importance of current funding. Building a robust EA/AIS ecosystem: The EA/AIS ecosystem should be more prepared for unpredictable s...
‘Hacking for Cash' is a new ASPI podcast series exploring state sponsored campaigns of cyber espionage for commercial gain. Throughout the series we talk to experts who were close to the negotiations that led to a 2015 agreement between the United States and China to refrain from supporting and engaging in ‘hacking for cash', as well as a G20 leaders' commitment to stamp out cyber-enabled intellectual property (IP) theft. The series features conversations with cybersecurity experts on state-sponsored hackers and how they operate, and with industry leaders about risk and resilience. We also talk with IP experts about how the US and China protect trade secrets, and with national cybersecurity and counter-intelligence agencies about how companies and universities can protect their crown jewels. In the first episode of the series, Bart Hogeveen, Head of Cyber Capacity Building at ASPI, speaks to Chris Painter, the first Coordinator for Cyber Issues at the US State Department, as well as Justin Bassi, Executive Director of ASPI and former National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. They discuss the agreements that both the US and Australia reached with China to combat cyber enabled IP theft, the role of presidential and prime ministerial leadership and the challenge in ensuring that states adhere to their international commitments, in particular their promise to refrain from state sponsored malicious cyber activities. Music: "Lounge It" by Maarten Schellekens, licensed with permission from the Independent Music Licensing Collective - imlcollective.uk
In this episode, Jim Lewis and Chris Painter speak with Szilvia Tóth, Cyber Security Officer at the Secretariat of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). They discuss the implementation of cyber confidence-building measures, points of contact directories, inter-regional cooperation, what's next for the OSCE, and more. OSCE Cyber/ICT Security Confidence-Building Measures
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter speak with Kerry-Ann Barrett, Cybersecurity Program Manager for the Organization of American States (OAS), Secretariat of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism, and Secretariat for Multidimensional Security. They discuss national cybersecurity strategies, the importance of intelligent capacity building, norms and accountability, what's next for the OAS, and more.
In this episode, Jim Lewis and Chris Painter review the evolution of cyber in 2022. In 30 minutes, they cover the year's cyber developments as well as upcoming cyber initiatives and priorities, touching on topics including: Cyber in Ukraine Negotiations in the United Nations The UN GGE and OEWG The State Department's launch of the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy Regional organizations Capacity building Enforcing norms Transparency about cyber initiatives Cyber initiatives in the United States Congress Efforts to improve software Personnel changes and the cyber workforce U.S. – China relations
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Israel's Cyber Coordinator Amir Sagie. They discuss the recent OEWG meeting, national cyber strategies, multilateralism and capacity building, accountability mechanisms, and more.
✨ DEBRIEF ✨ | Unpacking the Episode: https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/debrief-demetri ------ Demetri Kofinas is a digital entrepreneur and host of the Hidden Forces Podcast, one of our favorites. Demetri has a broad perspective on geopolitics, which we explore as we discuss the probability of a World War 3, diplomacy among superpowers, and surviving the rise of the machines. Have we lost the ability to solve hard problems as a species? ------
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with William Middleton, Cyber Director of the United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. They discuss the direction of UK cyber policy, international cooperation, next steps in the United Nations, and the links between cyber and development.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter interview Isaac Morales Tenorio, Mexico's Coordinator for Multidimensional Security. They discuss cyber from a Mexican perspective, regional and multilateral processes, capacity-building programs, implementing the United Nations norms and framework, and more.
In the first episode of season two, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Congressman Jim Langevin on his cybersecurity work in congress and what he envisions for the future of cyber diplomacy. They discuss domestic cybersecurity efforts, such as creating a Joint Collaborative Environment (JCE) within CISA's JCDC, institutionalizing cyber diplomacy in the State Department, Russia, international norms in cyberspace, and more.
In Episode 241 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Chris Painter, a globally recognized leader and expert on cyber security who has been at the vanguard of U.S. and international cyber issues for over thirty years—first as a prosecutor of some of the most high-profile cybercrime cases in the country and then as a senior official at the Department of Justice, FBI, the National Security Council, and the State Department. He's responsible for having established the Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues and served as Senior Director for Cyber Policy in the National Security Council. With the Biden administration reiterating prior warnings that the Russian Government is exploring options for conducting cyberattacks against the United States in response to sanctions levied against the Russian economy, we wanted to help bring all of you up to speed on exactly what those warnings are, what steps are being taken to minimize the damage they may cause, and what the range of possible responses by the U.S. government will be depending on the nature and targets of those attacks. This conversation is meant to give you the information that you need in order to best prepare yourselves and your businesses for what might be coming next, so that you remain ahead of the curve as events evolve and as the collateral damage of the war in Ukraine potentially widens. You can access the full episode, transcript, and intelligence report to this week's conversation by going directly to the episode page at HiddenForces.io and clicking on "premium extras." All subscribers gain access to our premium feed, which can be easily added to your favorite podcast application. If you enjoyed listening to today's episode of Hidden Forces you can help support the show by doing the following: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | YouTube | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | CastBox | RSS Feed Write us a review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify Subscribe to our mailing list at https://hiddenforces.io/newsletter/ Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou Subscribe & Support the Podcast at https://hiddenforces.io Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @hiddenforcespod Follow Demetri on Twitter at @Kofinas Episode Recorded on 03/24/2022
In the last episode of this season of Inside Cyber Diplomacy, Jim Lewis and Chris Painter review the cyber developments of 2021. In 40 minutes, they cover the evolution and maturation of cyber in the US and internationally, including: Cybersecurity becoming a political priority The UN GGE and OEWG Three UN initiatives to look out for: The new OEWG The program of action for regular institutional dialogue The new cybercrime convention negotiations Cyber in the UN Security Council Leadership and initiatives in the field Accountability and collective action Personnel changes Reorganization in the State Department
This month, we look back at what has been one of the most challenging years on record. The pandemic and lockdowns dictated changes to our ways of working. On the upside, we all became more deeply connected to the cyber physical world around us. Unfortunately, it also meant greater risk from cyber criminals and foreign state actors.In episode seventeen of ‘OzCyber Unlocked', AustCyber's CEO Michelle Price speaks to Hamish Hansford (Group Manager and Head of the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre at the Department of Home Affairs) and Chris Painter, (President of The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise Foundation) about how the speed of change has exposed new vulnerabilities; how we can protect our digital borders; the progression of critical infrastructure legislation; the ongoing cyber skills shortage in Australia, and the big trends that will have an impact on 2022 and beyond.This month, our cyber spotlight features Vikrim Sharma (Founder and CEO of Quintessence Labs). In a world where data is too important to be compromised, Quintessence Labs delivers powerful data protection, enhanced by the quantum power of nature. This includes centralised enterprise key and policy management, a high-speed true random number generator, an integrated hardware security module, and highly secure encryption for data in uncontrolled environments.For more information about the organisations featured, visit:Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre at the Department of Home Affairs: www.cisc.gov.auThe Global Forum on Cyber Expertise Foundation: www.thegfce.org Quintessence Labs: www.quintessencelabs.comCatch up previous episodes of ‘OzCyber Unlocked' during the Christmas break:Under siege: Are we ready for a cyber attack on Australia's hospital system?: https://bit.ly/3m5wv0EThe state of Australian cyber – 2021 observations from retired MAJGEN Dr Marcus Thompson: https://bit.ly/3dOsU2yIntentional or unintentional? The impact of insider threats: https://bit.ly/3ueW4ixThe Essential Eight – keeping your digital infrastructure secure: https://bit.ly/3lW2LCuCyber threat intelligence – a deep dive into why it matters: https://bit.ly/2ZEd4nr'Cyber shift' – how do we improve diversity & workplace culture to enact real change?: https://bit.ly/3m22bDhPathways into cyber security – how to plan, upskill and maximise career opportunities: https://bit.ly/2XTrJtJ
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Debate update: Obfuscated arguments problem, published by Beth Barnes on the AI Alignment Forum. This is an update on the work on AI Safety via Debate that we previously wrote about here. Authors and Acknowledgements The researchers on this project were Elizabeth Barnes and Paul Christiano, with substantial help from William Saunders (who built the current web interface as well as other help), Joe Collman (who helped develop the structured debate mechanisms), and Mark Xu, Chris Painter, Mihnea Maftei and Ronny Fernandez (who took part in many debates as well as helping think through problems). We're also grateful to Geoffrey Irving and Evan Hubinger for feedback on drafts, and for helpful conversations, along with Richard Ngo, Daniel Ziegler, John Schulman, Amanda Askell and Jeff Wu. Finally, we're grateful to our contractors who participated in experiments, including Adam Scherlis, Kevin Liu, Rohan Kapoor and Kunal Sharda. What we did We tested the debate protocol introduced in AI Safety via Debate with human judges and debaters. We found various problems and improved the mechanism to fix these issues (details of these are in the appendix). However, we discovered that a dishonest debater can often create arguments that have a fatal error, but where it is very hard to locate the error. We don't have a fix for this “obfuscated argument” problem, and believe it might be an important quantitative limitation for both IDA and Debate. Key takeaways and relevance for alignment Our ultimate goal is to find a mechanism that allows us to learn anything that a machine learning model knows: if the model can efficiently find the correct answer to some problem, our mechanism should favor the correct answer while only requiring a tractable number of human judgements and a reasonable number of computation steps for the model. [1] We're working under a hypothesis that there are broadly two ways to know things: via step-by-step reasoning about implications (logic, computation.), and by learning and generalizing from data (pattern matching, bayesian updating.). Debate focuses on verifying things via step-by-step reasoning. It seems plausible that a substantial proportion of the things a model ‘knows' will have some long but locally human-understandable argument for their correctness. [2] Previously we hoped that debate/IDA could verify any knowledge for which such human-understandable arguments exist, even if these arguments are intractably large. We hoped the debaters could strategically traverse small parts of the implicit large argument tree and thereby show that the whole tree could be trusted. The obfuscated argument problem suggests that we may not be able to rely on debaters to find flaws in large arguments, so that we can only trust arguments when we could find flaws by recursing randomly---e.g. because the argument is small enough that we could find a single flaw if one existed, or because the argument is robust enough that it is correct unless it has many flaws. This suggests that while debates may let us verify arguments too large for unaided humans to understand, those arguments may still have to be small relative to the computation used during training. We believe that many important decisions can't be justified with arguments small or robust enough to verify in this way. To supervise ML systems that make such decisions, we either need to find some restricted class of arguments for which we believe debaters can reliably find flaws, or we need to be able to trust the representations or heuristics that our models learn from the training data (rather than verifying them in a given case via debate). We have been thinking about approaches like learning the prior to help trust our models' generalization. This is probably better investigated through ML experiments or theoretical ...
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Writeup: Progress on AI Safety via Debate, published by Beth Barnes, Paul Christiano on the AI Alignment Forum. This is a writeup of the research done by the "Reflection-Humans" team at OpenAI in Q3 and Q4 of 2019. During that period we investigated mechanisms that would allow evaluators to get correct and helpful answers from experts, without the evaluators themselves being expert in the domain of the questions. This follows from the original work on AI Safety via Debate and the call for research on human aspects of AI safety, and is also closely related to work on Iterated Amplification. Authors and Acknowledgements The main researchers on this project were Elizabeth Barnes, Paul Christiano, Long Ouyang and Geoffrey Irving. We are grateful to many others who offered ideas and feedback. In particular: the cross-examination idea was inspired by a conversation with Chelsea Voss; Adam Gleave had helpful ideas about the long computation problem; Jeff Wu, Danny Hernandez and Gretchen Krueger gave feedback on a draft; we had helpful conversations with Amanda Askell, Andreas Stuhlmüller and Joe Collman, as well as others on the Ought team and the OpenAI Reflection team. We'd also like to thank our contractors who participated in debate experiments, especially David Jones, Erol Akbaba, Alex Deam and Chris Painter. Oliver Habryka helped format and edit the document for the AI Alignment Forum. Note by Oliver: There is currently a bug with links to headings in a post, causing them to not properly scroll when clicked. Until that is fixed, just open those links in a new tab, which should scroll correctly. Overview Motivation As we apply ML to increasingly important and complex tasks, the problem of evaluating behaviour and providing a good training signal becomes more difficult. We already see examples of RL leading to undesirable behaviours that superficially ‘look good' to human evaluators (see this collection of examples). One example from an OpenAI paper is an agent learning incorrect behaviours in a 3d simulator, because the behaviours look like the desired behaviour in the 2d clip the human evaluator is seeing. We'd like to ensure that AI systems are aligned with human values even in cases where it's beyond human ability to thoroughly check the AI system's work. We can learn about designing ML objectives by studying mechanisms for eliciting helpful behavior from human experts. For example, if we hire a physicist to answer physics questions and pay them based on how good their answers look to a layperson, we'll incentivize lazy and incorrect answers. By the same token, a reward function based on human evaluations would not work well for an AI with superhuman physics knowledge, even if it works well for modern ML. If we can develop a mechanism that allows non-expert humans to reliably incentivize experts to give helpful answers, we can use similar mechanisms to train ML systems to solve tasks where humans cannot directly evaluate performance. Conversely, if we can't incentivize experts to behave helpfully, that suggests it will also be difficult to train ML systems with superhuman expertise on open-ended tasks. One broad mechanism that might work is to invoke two (or more) competing agents that critique each others' positions, as discussed in the original debate paper[1]. This can be simulated by having human debaters argue about a question and a judge attempt to pick the correct answer. In the rest of this document, we'll describe the research done by reflection-humans in Q3 and Q4 on investigating and developing mechanisms that incentivize human experts to give helpful answers. Current process During the early stages, we iterated through various different domains, research methodologies, judge pools, and research processes. More details of this early iteration are here. In...
On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Chris Painter, America's first chief cyber diplomat during the Obama administration and who is now with the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, discusses how civilians are increasingly caught in the middle of escalating cyber war between Israel and Iran, setting and enforcing cyber norms, international cooperation to counter state-driven cyber campaigns and ransomware, and whether lessons from other domains like space apply to cyberspace with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Our Precious Podcast! OUR PRECIOUS! Your Normies Like Us hosts are getting ready to RING in the New Year by tackling all of the J.R.R. Tolkein works with the months long celebration “Lords of November and an Unexpected December!” So grab The One Ring and follow along as we travel from the Normies Like Us Shire and head all the way to Mordor while talking Hobbits, Elves, and Dwarves. One does not simply like and subscribe (Or do they?) Insta @NormiesLikeUs https://www.instagram.com/normieslikeus/ @jacob https://www.instagram.com/jacob/ @JoeHasInsta https://www.instagram.com/joehasinsta/ @MikeHasInsta https://www.instagram.com/mikehasinsta/ Special Guest: Chris Painter.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu. They discuss the UN First Committee efforts on cybersecurity and the broader disarmament agenda, how these negotiations fit with other initiatives in the UN, and the future implications of successful GGE and OEWG meetings.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Ambassador Takeshi Akahori, former Ambassador for Cyber Policy of Japan and current Ambassador for Climate Change Negotiations. They discuss cyber rule making, the applicability of international law in cyberspace, and Japan's role in the UN negotiations.
When does a foreign cyber attack merit shooting back? It's a tough question but one defense and civilian planners think about. For some perspective, the Federal Drive spoke with Chris Painter, the former State Department cyber diplomat, now president of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise foundation.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Ciaran Martin, Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations at Oxford University, and former Chief Executive of the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre. They discuss the difficulties in tackling ransomware, ways to counter Russian aggression, UK / EU relations after Brexit, and the importance of technology innovation and cooperation with allies.
On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Chris Painter, America's first chief cyber diplomat during the Obama administration and who is now with the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, discusses what's next now that the United States, NATO, the EU and allies have agreed to expose Beijing's malicious cyber activities, countering China and Russia in cyberspace, tackling ransomware attacks as a national security priority, and the challenge posed by spyware in the wake of news reports alleging that products by Israel's NSO Group has been used against government leaders and journalists worldwide with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Former CIA counterintelligence chief James Olson tells Jeff Stein the CIA and FBI need to “resuscitate” double agent ops to penetrate enemy spy services, and Jeanne Meserve talks with former senior U.S. cybercrime official Chris Painter about the rash of ransomware attacks by REvil and other Russia-based malefactors. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Former CIA counterintelligence chief James Olson tells Jeff Stein the CIA and FBI need to “resuscitate” double agent ops to penetrate enemy spy services, and Jeanne Meserve talks with former senior U.S. cybercrime official Chris Painter about the rash of ransomware attacks by REvil and other Russia-based malefactors.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Former CIA counterintelligence chief James Olson tells Jeff Stein the CIA and FBI need to “resuscitate” double agent ops to penetrate enemy spy services, and Jeanne Meserve talks with former senior U.S. cybercrime official Chris Painter about the rash of ransomware attacks by REvil and other Russia-based malefactors.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Germany's Cyber Ambassador Regine Grienberger. They discuss the work being done on cyber from a German and European perspective, the importance of capacity-building, and the hopes and expectations for the work ahead.
In this special edition of Inside Cyber Diplomacy, Jim Lewis and Chris Painter break down the discussions on cyber that took place last week during the G7, NATO, U.S.-EU, and U.S.-Russia summits.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Ambassador Guilherme Patriota, Brazil's Consul General in Mumbai and Chair of the UN GGE on Advancing responsible State behavior in cyberspace in the context of international security. They discuss the influence his past negotiating experience had in how he chaired the group, how they had to adjust to negotiating during Covid to achieve a consensus report, and whether his future plans will involve ICTs.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Michele Markoff, Heli Tiirma-Klaar, and Johanna Weaver about the recently concluded UN GGE. They discuss how the group managed to get consensus on this new report, the progress made on international law and norms as they apply to cyberspace, and how the process compared to the parallel OEWG.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Johanna Weaver, Special Adviser to Australia's Ambassador for Cyber Affairs, Australia's independent expert to the UN's GGE on Responsible State Behavior in Cyberspace; and Head of the Australian Delegation to UN's OEWG on ICT Security. They discuss the challenges Covid presented to negotiations, the importance of raising awareness on the UN framework, and the impact of women in cyber.
We don't get far into my interview with the authors of a widely publicized Ransomware Task Force report, before I object that most of its recommendations are “boring” procedural steps that don't directly address the ransomware scourge. That prompts a vigorous dialogue with Philip Reiner, the Executive Director of the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), the report's sponsoring organization, from Megan Stifel, of the Global Cyber Alliance, and Chris Painter, of The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise Foundation. And we, in fact, find several new and not at all boring recommendations among the nearly 50 put forward in the report. In the news roundup, Dmitri Alperovitch has an answer to my question, “Is Putin getting a handle on U.S. social media?” Not just Putin, but every other large authoritarian government is finding ways to bring Google, Twitter and Facebook to heel. In Russia's case, the method is first a token fine, then a gradual throttling of service delivery that makes domestic competitors look better in comparison to the Silicon Valley brand. Mark MacCarthy handicaps the Epic v. Apple lawsuit. The judge is clearly determined to give both sides reason to fear that the case won't go well. And our best guess is that Epic might get some form of relief but not the kind of outcome they hoped for. Dmitri and I marvel at the speed and consensus around regulatory approaches to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware event. It's highly likely that the attack will spur legislation mandating reports of cyber incidents (and without any liability protection) as well as aggressive security regulation from the agency with jurisdiction—TSA. I offer a cynical Washington perspective on why TSA has acted so decisively. Mark and I dig into the signing and immediate court filing against Florida's social media regulation attacking common content moderation issues. Florida will face an uphill fight, but neither of us is persuaded by the tech press's claim that the law will be “laughed out of court.” There is a serious case to be made for almost everything in the law, with the exception of the preposterous (and probably severable) exemption for owners of Florida theme parks. Dmitri revs up the DeHyping Machine for reports that the Russians responded to Biden administration sanctions by delivering another cyberpunch in the form of hijacked USAID emails. It turns out that the attack was garden variety cyberespionage, that the compromise didn't involve access to USAID networks, that it was launched before sanctions, and that it didn't get very far. Jordan Schneider explains the impact of U.S. government policy on the cellular-equipment industry, and the appeal of Open RAN as a way of end-running the current incumbents. U.S. industrial policy could be transformed by the shape-shifting Endless Frontier Act. Jordan and Dmitri explain how. I ask whether we're seeing a deep convergence on industrial policy on both sides of the Pacific, now that President Xi has given a speech on tech policy that could have been delivered by half a dozen Republican or Democratic senators. Finally, Dmitri reviews the bidding in cryptocurrency regulation both at the White House White House and in London. In short hits, we cover: The European Court of Human Rights decision squeezing but not quite killing GCHQ's mass data interception programs and cooperation with the U.S. I offer a possible explanation for the court's caution. A court filing strongly suggesting that the Biden administration will not be abandoning a controversial Trump administration rule that requires visa applicants to register their social media handles with the U.S. government. I speculate on why. A WhatsApp decision not to threaten its users to get them to accept the company's new privacy terms. Instead, I suspect, WhatsApp will annoy them into submission. And, finally, a festival of EU competition law Brussels attacks on Silicon Valley, from Germany and France. And More!
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Moctar Yedaly, Africa Program Director for the GFCE, and former Head of the Information Society department within the African Union Commission. They discuss internet shutdowns, the need for high-level political interest and attention to the issues of ICTs, and the value of including more stakeholders in multilateral negotiations.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Ambassador Amandeep Gill, Director of the Global Health Centre project on International Digital Health & AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR). They discuss the transformative power of digital technologies and the importance of using human-centric benchmarks when applying AI to health.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Ambassador Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations and other Organizations in Geneva. They discuss his work as Chair of the OEWG, how his previous UN experience helped him increase engagement in the process, and where to go from here.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with David Koh, Chief Executive of the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore. They discuss progress in cybersecurity done by the CSA in its first six years, technical and policy cooperation within ASEAN, and next steps in cyber diplomacy after the conclusion of the current UN GGE and OEWG processes.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Michele Markoff, Deputy Coordinator for Cyber Issues in the Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Affairs at the U.S. State Department. They discuss the recently concluded UN OEWG process and the next steps for international coordination on cyber issues.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Michael Walma, Cyber Foreign Policy Coordinator for Global Affairs Canada. They talk about Canada's efforts in advancing diverse voices in the OEWG, achieving gender balance in cyber negotiations, expectations about the new US administration's focus on cybersecurity, and the importance of regional organizations in developing CBMs.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter discuss recent appointments by the Biden administration, recommendations on how to engage with Russian malicious cyber activity, and how to cooperate with European allies moving forward.
Leading Republicans are demanding retribution for a massive foreign cyber attack of US government departments.
In this episode, we are joined by Chris Painter, a former Coordinator for Cyber Issues during Obama-Biden administration and a globally recognized expert on cyber policy, cyber diplomacy and combatting cybercrime with over 27 years of government experience. Currently, President of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE), Chris discusses what a Biden administration means for cyber policy.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, Estonia's Ambassador-at-Large for Cyber Diplomacy. They discuss her work and experience in the European Union and Estonia, the challenges of effective operationalization of international norms, and the future of cyber diplomacy.
In the final instalment of Who Rules Cyberspace? Ben and Joyce are joined by two cyber experts to explore future developments in cyber governance. Kerstin Vignard of UNIDIR reflects on the progress achieved so far through the United Nations processes, and the challenges that lie ahead at future negotiations. Then former cyber diplomat Chris Painter explains how technological innovations could change the debate on regulating the internet, and how these conversations can be made more relevant for wider society. Read the Journal of Cyber Policy article: The vital role of international law in the framework for responsible state behaviour in cyberspace Watch the video: How Can We Work Towards a Stable #Cyberspace4all? Credits: Speakers: Chris Painter, Kirsten Vignard Hosts: Joyce Hakmeh, Ben Horton Editor: Esther Naylor Sound Editor: Jamie Reed Recorded and produced by Chatham House
In the final instalment of Who Rules Cyberspace? Ben and Joyce are joined by two cyber experts to explore future developments in cyber governance. Kerstin Vignard of UNIDIR reflects on the progress achieved so far through the United Nations processes, and the challenges that lie ahead at future negotiations. Then former cyber diplomat Chris Painter explains how technological innovations could change the debate on regulating the internet, and how these conversations can be made more relevant for wider society. Read the Journal of Cyber Policy article: The vital role of international law in the framework for responsible state behaviour in cyberspace Watch the video: How Can We Work Towards a Stable #Cyberspace4all? Credits: Speakers: Chris Painter, Kirsten Vignard Hosts: Joyce Hakmeh, Ben Horton Editor: Esther Naylor Sound Editor: Jamie Reed Recorded and produced by Chatham House
In this special edition of Inside Cyber Diplomacy, Jim Lewis and Chris Painter discuss the pressing cybersecurity issues the next administration will need to address, how a new strategy should be structured, and possible next steps.
In this episode, co-hosts Jim Lewis and Chris Painter talk with Australian Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology, Dr. Tobias Feakin. They discuss the responsibilities of his role, Australia's cybersecurity strategy, the importance of regional cooperation, and how to strengthen the existing framework for responsible state behavior in cyberspace.
Many early adopters of technology are criminals, and their crimes are best done across borders. From stock manipulation, to stealing trade secrets, to weaponizing information in election interference, Chris Painter has investigated a lot of bad actors. As the nation's top (and first-ever) cyber diplomat, he explains all of this, plus the story about the stolen axe.
Final Fantasy 7: Welcome to Midgar, Normies. Your hosts take a mako-filled look at the video game that swept the 90’s to now - Final Fantasy 7. They cover it all - What Materia you’d want in real life, if Cloud is part Chocobo, and why can’t you use a Phoenix Down on Aeirth? Tune in to find out on Normies Like Us! Not interested? Not our problem. CAN’T YOU HEAR THE EARTH CRYING OUT IN PAIN?! You don’t have to play pinball to get to our secret base, just click below. Insta @NormiesLikeUs https://www.instagram.com/normieslikeus/ @MikeHasInsta https://www.instagram.com/mikehasinsta/ Special Guest: Adam Bennett readinheathens.com twitch.tv/hostedpod @hostedpod on instagram Special Guest: Chris Painter Special Guests: Adam Bennett and Chris Painter.
Global conversations around acceptable norms of behavior in cyberspace (particularly for states), attribution, accountability, and deterrence (though we have not done well on the last one), recent attacks, and the processes that are dealing with setting rules of the road in cyberspace. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/PSWEpisode633
Global conversations around acceptable norms of behavior in cyberspace (particularly for states), attribution, accountability, and deterrence (though we have not done well on the last one), recent attacks, and the processes that are dealing with setting rules of the road in cyberspace. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/PSWEpisode633
This week, we welcome Kavya Pearlman, CEO at XR Safety Initiative, to talk about Who is going to protect the Brave New Virtual Worlds, and HOW?! In our second segment, we welcome Chris Painter, Commissioner at the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, to discuss Diplomacy, Norms, and Deterrence in Cyberspace! In the security news, mysterious Drones are Flying over Colorado, 7 Tips for Maximizing Your SOC, The Most Dangerous People on the Internet This Decade, North Korean Hackers Stole 'Highly Sensitive Information' from Microsoft Users, Critical Vulnerabilities Impact Ruckus Wi-Fi Routers, & The Coolest Hacks of 2019! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/PSWEpisode633 Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly
This week, we welcome Kavya Pearlman, CEO at XR Safety Initiative, to talk about Who is going to protect the Brave New Virtual Worlds, and HOW?! In our second segment, we welcome Chris Painter, Commissioner at the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, to discuss Diplomacy, Norms, and Deterrence in Cyberspace! In the security news, mysterious Drones are Flying over Colorado, 7 Tips for Maximizing Your SOC, The Most Dangerous People on the Internet This Decade, North Korean Hackers Stole 'Highly Sensitive Information' from Microsoft Users, Critical Vulnerabilities Impact Ruckus Wi-Fi Routers, & The Coolest Hacks of 2019! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/PSWEpisode633 Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly
Chris Painter, owner of the Hogg Mine in LaGrane GA, sits down to talk with Victoria Henley of Backstage Pass about the art of Gem Hounding, how gemstone mine played a vital role in the Civilian Conservation Core, and provides the inside scoop of working in the mining and gemstones industries.
General Alexander and Coordinator Painter discuss U.S. responses to cyber attacks from Russia, Iran and China, the urgent need for stronger defense & cyber as a tool of national power.
Which laws govern data in cyberspace and how do these issues evolve when conflicts happen? Chris Painter, a globally recognized leader in cybersecurity and cyber policy, discusses how governments can work together to drive good behavior online and set norms. Although we’re not yet at a stage where we have a United Nations treaty for cyberspace, Painter calls for more international cooperation between governments and the private sector. And he warns that there must be accountability for countries that break the rules.
Hall is joined by Ben Bennett, COO of Omnitude. Ben's background has always been in the commercial side of businesses - anything from telesales, field sales, product sales, all the way through to more strategic and development roles in business. He eventually launched his own company, a consultancy, which focused on startups, enabling businesses to understand their value proposition and then then take it to market. It was on that journey that he met Chris Painter, future CEO of Omnitude.
Chris Painter is president of Logikor and a longtime client and friend of Mike’s. Throughout his career, he has always wanted to be at the helm of an organization. Chris and Mike talk about his journey and share advice on how to identify if you have the right team, and if not, how to build one, both inside and outside the organization. The conversation intensifies with insights when they discuss the impact of self-evaluation and how imbalance can impact a leader, their family, and the organization.
The panelists discuss the differences of a Product Manager role in small and large organisations across different types of companies. They talk about how different it is building a physical product versus a non-physical one. They also share their insight on what different product titles include in small versus large companies. Moderator: Carlos González de Villaumbrosia is the CEO of Product School. Panelists: Matt Bariletti, Lead Product Manager at Banjo. Fred Radford, Product Manager at 8x8. Chris Painter, Head of Product at Zippy Inc.
This week we Chris Painter to join us. Chris painter is the MD at Pixel by Pixel and also the CEO at Omnitude, a startup that aims to revolutionize connectivity between blockchain technologies and enterprise systems. You can check out their website on omnitude.tech
In our 188th episode of The Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Maury Shenk, Brian Egan, and Alexis Early discuss: CFIUS reform is in the air: Senator Cornyn's carefully scripted rollout has begun; but what's in the bill? Twitter's handling of Russian trolling once again suggests that its privacy policy should read: "Privacy: Good for you. Better for us.” The EU just keeps doubling down on European exceptionalism. Do we need a FISA reform antiproliferation pact? Reviewing the bidding: House Judiciary: “USA Liberty Crazy and irresponsible.” House Intelligence: "Yeah, we're not Judiciary." Senate Intelligence: “Tweakville.” The FBI says crypto defeats half of the phone searches it tries to do. Microsoft embraces new DOJ policy on gag orders, drops suit. Kaspersky offers a more complete defense, but it sounds a lot like a guilty plea. Our guest interview is with Chris Painter, former Coordinator for Cyber Issues in the Office of the Secretary at the US Department of State. Mark your calendars for November 7th when we will gather for a live taping of a special episode on Election Cybersecurity at our Dupont Circle offices here in DC. To register please visit the Events page of our website at steptoe.com. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.
Book Clips Come Back To Me by Chris Painter narrated by Ann Etter Synopsis Author Angie Cantinnini’s agent convinces her she must use a pseudonym if she hopes to land a contract with a mainstream publishing company—especially since the protagonist of Angie’s novels is a hard-boiled male detective. Neither Angie nor her agent anticipates the raging success of the series of books or the mountain of wealth that accompanies each new release. As a best-selling author, Angie should be delighted with her Bohemian life in Key West, but happiness is elusive because it’s her alter-ego, Zach England, who’s receiving the accolades, while Angie is relegated to anonymity. Meryl McClain, the recently hired book review editor at the prestigious New York Banner, wants to make a strong first impression with her readers, so she picks Zach England’s latest novel for her debut review. She offers a scathing critique, unaware the real author behind the pseudonym is her long lost true love, Angie. Heartrending choices separated the lovers eleven years earlier. Seeing Meryl’s review overwhelms Angie with feelings she thought she’d laid to rest years ago. This stroke of Fate beckons them to reunite, but Angie’s secret identity and Meryl’s struggle with a childhood trauma conspire to keep them apart. Torn from a shared moment in their past, the words Come Back to Me have haunted the two women for more than a decade. Is it too late for Angie and Meryl to choose love again? You can find this novel on Amazon.com | on Amazon.co.uk | on Amazon.ca Visit www.TheLesbianTalkShow.com/Reading for more information on sending us your reading for Book Clips You can contact Ann Etter on Facebook or email her
In our 163rd episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Alan Cohn, Maury Shenk, and Jennifer Quinn-Barabanov discuss: Putin does what Putin does, this time in the French election: maybe with forged documents, plus prosecution threats for publishers, and NYT reporters whining about automated retweets ; OK, that’s nuts, but quite possibly the plaintiff bar’s future; transparency report reveals shocking stat on FBI searches of NSA data for criminal suspects. The bureau did it … once; less comforting stat: roughly a quarter of NSA’s 4000 intel reports describing Americans disclosed the Americans’ names; still no EO, but at least we have a new leaked draft; Home Depot settlement and what it means for class actions over breach; Trump White House’s American Tech Council launched; UK floats draft interception bill to a select audience; Germany’s intel service whines about Russian hacking and then about its lack of authority to, uh, hack back to destroy third party servers. Chris Painter, call your office!; DHS cybersecurity does well in budget deal DHS backpedals on privacy rights of non-Americans; ABA whines about border searches; Guardian plays world’s smallest violin: Cybercrime on the high seas: the new threat facing billionaire superyacht owners; Uh-oh. Two factor authentication falls to SS7 hack. Our guest interview is with Susan Munro, Steptoe partner and head of our Beijing office to discuss China’s new cyberlaw measures. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.
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