September 2022 was apparently the month artificial intelligence essay angst boiled over in academia, as various media outlets published opinion pieces lamenting the rise of AI writing systems that will ruin student writing and pave the way toward unprecedented levels of academic misconduct. Then, on Sept. 23, academic Twitter exploded into a bit of a panic on this topic. The firestorm was prompted by a post to the OpenAI subreddit where user Urdadgirl69 claimed to be getting straight A's with essays "written" using artificial intelligence. Professors on Reddit and Twitter alike expressed frustration and concern about how best to address the threat of AI essays. One of the most poignant and widely retweeted laments came from Redditor ahumanlikeyou, who wrote, "Grading something an AI wrote is an incredibly depressing waste of my life."

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Cybersecurity is a constant concern for businesses of all sizes. There are countless threats to organizational data by a growing host of bad actors, and the risks of a cyberattack on your business are only growing. A recent study found that 76 percent of U.S. businesses had experienced a cyberattack last year alone. Given the large number of remote workers logging into company files from unsecured networks with no IT supervision, it's not a question of "if" but "when" your company will become infiltrated. For most businesses, well-known hacks like ransomware or phishing are top of mind.

More than a decade ago, Internet analyst and new media scholar Clay Shirky said: "The only real way to end spam is to shut down e-mail communication." Will shutting down the Internet be the only way to end deepfake propaganda in 2020? Today, anyone can create their own fake news and also break it. Online propaganda is more misleading and manipulative than ever. Deepfakes, a specific form of disinformation that uses machine-learning algorithms to create audio and video of real people saying and doing things they never said or did, are moving quickly toward being indistinguishable from reality.

Quantum computing is poised to change the world of IT. By taking advantage of quantum mechanics, quantum computers promise to solve certain categories of complex problems much more quickly than today's traditional computers. Although a practical quantum computer has yet to be developed, incremental progress made during the past several years leads experts to believe that we may not be far off. One expected outcome of quantum computing is that the world's existing cryptographic infrastructure will have to change in a fundamental way. Due to a smart piece of mathematics from the 1990s called Shor's algorithm, the quantum computing architecture should turn out to be much more effective than traditional computing architecture at defeating Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) and elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC)-based encryption, today's most common encryption types. If the industry does not adapt, it risks leaving the door open to widespread compromise.

In a recent article, Santiago Siri, the founder of Democracy Earth Foundation, talks about internet giants and how they have been taking Orwellian measures to control the whole network through artificial intelligence (AI). He also discusses how crypto could play an important role for individuals to defend against this. According to him, AI seems to be a threat to humanity. Something that Elon Musk and Sam Altman usually warn. Additionally, social algorithms have been growing all over the internet and are able to explain today's political reality.

Ever since Facebook finally admitted to having a fake news problem, it's been trying to fix it. It hired thousands of people to help block fake ads, pledged to work with third-party fact-checking organizations and is busy building algorithms to detect fake news. But even as it attempts to fight back against fraudulent ads and made-up facts, another potential fake news threat looms on the horizon: Artificially generated fake video. Motherboard recently uncovered a disturbing new trend on Reddit, where users create AI-generated pornographic clips by swapping other people's faces onto porn stars. The outlet first reported on the phenomenon a month ago when Reddit user "deepfakes" posted a video of Gal Gadot's face swapped onto a porn star's body (he's since created more fake porn with other celebrities).

United Technology's announcement last November that its Carrier Corp. plant would keep jobs in Indiana rather than move them to Mexico was heralded as a significant victory for American workers. However, the true impact of the deal was hidden below the headlines. United Technologies CEO, Greg Hayes, said the company will invest $16M "to...automate to drive the cost down so that we can continue to be competitive... ultimately...there will be fewer jobs." Carrier's plans underscore a harsh reality: most American jobs aren't going to Mexico, China or another foreign country, they're being automated. The workers left behind often struggle to find employment for comparable pay because they lack the skills required for the jobs that aren't threatened by automation.