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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 3d

I can say with 99.99% confidence that the actual trajectory is somewhere in this range. There is a small chance that it could be even better or worse.

Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 3d

Do ya feel lucky, punk?

Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 19d

The script writers are way too on the nose with the symbolism this season. We really need to cancel the show.
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Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Oct 9

No it actually was not.

Diversity initiatives are not just about affirmative action, ensuring a democratic military represents its demos.

Diversity also matters for intellectual performance in a world of complex high-tech operations among foreign societies.

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Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Oct 8

The discourse around AGI has become eschatology—a religious tale of the end times.
But a lot of it is just scatology—bullshit meant to persuade without interest in truth.

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AGI—Eschatology and Scatology

Calling bullshit on superintelligence

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Oct 7

AGI stands for Arrogance, Grift, and Ignorance, and many other things besides.
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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Oct 2

This is a misleading headline. Ai bio warfare is not right around the corner. There is still a long and complicated path from r&d -- where this story focuses on only one part -- to weaponization and operational capacity let alone strategic intent

MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · Oct 2

Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.

Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology

Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · Oct 2

Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.

Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology

Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Oct 1

Good news! You can now download the open access (free) ebook of Age of Decption from @CornellPress !

(You can also buy a paperback, which makes a fine decoration for your bookshelf)

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Age of Deception by Jon R. Lindsay | eBook | Cornell University Press

At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While...

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Sep 29

Interested in military automation? You should definitely read the new book by Jackie Schneider and Julia Macdonald!

I wrote up some thoughts on their terrific book here:
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Culture and Automation at War

Thoughts on The Hand Behind Unmanned by Schneider & Macdonald

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Sep 27

Trump is not a Sparks fan?

S P A R K S @sparksofficial.bsky.social · Sep 27

Thank you, Portland!!

S P A R K S @sparksofficial.bsky.social · Sep 27

Thank you, Portland!!

Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Sep 22

This is my favorite LLM output to date:

Based on Haugeland's definition, the correct and most precise answer is **yes, this instance of Gemini does not "give a damn" about the answers.**

Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Sep 15

There is an ancient curse in Security Studies: "May your research be relevant."

And with that I am happy to annouce the arrival of Age of Deception!

You can find a paperback from any fine bookmonger or get the open access eBook from Cornell:
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Aug 29

Here are few thoughts on why _Age of Deception_ has the cover that it does. Coming soon from @cornellupress.bsky.social

dolos.substack.com/p/cover-me

Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Aug 27

Age of Deception now has a cover!
Technologies of perception also conceal danger...

Coming this fall.

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Age of Deception by Jon R. Lindsay | eBook | Cornell University Press

At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While...

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu

Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Aug 12

I don’t often publish in critical security studies, but when I do, I drink Homeric epic.

Here is the director's cut of my recent essay on AI and war in Minds and Machines.

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Sing, Goddess, of the Wrath of AI

Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics and War

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Aug 12

Check out this new forum offering critical perspectives on AI and geopolitics.

I wrote a strange little essay on why Homer's Iliad still matters in the age of AI-enabled warfare.

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Myth, Power, and Agency: Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics and War - Minds and Machines

This collection interrogates how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping war, sovereignty, and human agency by entangling technological experimentation with myth-making and geopolitical power. Drawi...

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Jul 5

Next time you are tempted to let ChatGPT do your work, think about the wild aurochs.

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AI as Aurochs Intelligence

Or, why ChatGPT makes you stupid

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Jul 3

MOPs finished what Stuxnet started

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Not with a whimper but a bang

The legacy of Olympic Games after Midnight Hammer

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · May 20

sometimes an index is poetry

Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · May 20

If Leo XIV is warning about thinking machines,
does that make eLon XAI the antichrist?

Leo XIV, eLon XAI, just sayin...

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Pope Leo’s Name Carries a Warning About the Rise of AI

A century ago, Pope Leo XIII defended workers’ rights during the Industrial Revolution. Will Leo XIV do the same for AI?

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · May 14

When it comes to AI in the classroom, instructors can be police or guides. I prefer the latter. Here are a few half-baked ideas about incorporating AI into assignments.

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