Lithuania fears Russia will attempt to sway its elections Andrius Sytas, Reuters, February 5th 2019 VILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuania’s intelligence agencies fear Russia will interfere in its forthcoming elections, including one in May to find a successor to the staunchly anti-Kremlin president, Dalia Grybauskaite. The Baltic state, ruled from Moscow for much of the 20th […]Read More

Researchers create ‘malicious’ writing AI Dave Lee, BBC News, February 15, 2019 The article follows – see an example at the bottom of this post. A team of researchers who have built an artificially-intelligent writer say they are withholding the technology as it might be used for “malicious” purposes. OpenAI, based in San Francisco, is a research institute backed by Silicon Valley luminaries including Elon Musk and […]Read More