Gone are the days where the biggest concern is students drawing alien ears on their science teacher or printing images of a friend’s face connected to a four-legged body with scales and a tail. That was 30-something years ago. Now, schools are being forced to develop emergency response plans in case sexually explicit images of students or teachers generated by artificial intelligence (AI) pop up on social media.

In two separate cases, school principals were seen or heard spewing racist, violent language against black students. Both were AI-generated deepfakes—one was produced by students and the other was made by a disgruntled athletic director who later was arrested.

As education leaders scramble to set policy to mitigate the damage of deepfakes—and as state legislators work to criminalize such malicious acts specific to schools or children—the technology to combat AI tools that can replicate a person’s image and voice doesn’t yet exist. Continue reading…

The Justice Department is proposing new rules that would limit the ability of adversarial nations to purchase bulk data on American citizens.

The notice of proposed rulemaking would attempt to throttle the amount of information sent by data brokers to six covered nations by placing new limits on certain business transactions regarding Americans’ data. The six nations that are targeted include China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela.

As currently written, the rules would prohibit “any U.S. person from knowingly engaging in a covered data transaction involving data brokerage with a country of concern or a covered person.” Whether that language holds or is watered down remains to be seen, however. International data brokerage is a lucrative field of business, and the rules are likely to be the target of intense lobbying. Continue reading...

With the unpredictable nature of life and the world, preparing for worst-case-scenarios can mean the difference between extreme discomfort and smooth sailing.

Imagine this scenario: You have just arrived home from work. You sit down to watch the news and see that a massive storm with torrential rains is heading your way. The authorities advise everyone to stay indoors and off the roads for the next 72 hours because of high winds and the risk of flooding. Situations like these occur more frequently than most people realize. While no one likes pondering worst-case scenarios, advance preparation can save your life—and significantly ease your stress during emergencies.

Our colleague, Emma Suttie, has the rundown on food essentials, storage, cooking, and common mistakes to watch out for in case of a disaster. Read: Stock up for Survival: Essential Food Storage Tips for Emergencies

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Mr. Li Hongzhi is a four-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and was nominated by the European Parliament for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. He is also the recipient of Freedom House’s International Religious Freedom Award.

The above article has been translated from Chinese and was originally published on FalunDafa.org

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