Teaser: Y2 GenAI Safety and Security

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We are celebrating year 2 after GenAI explosion. Still there are many questions on the table for what would be next for the future of GenAI and humanity.

Nobody would what is next. When Trump won the President 2025, that future would be more unknown than ever with a trade war and AI race. However, between no regulation and bad regulations, obviously we are much better without regulations. The reality is regulation only work out for the good guys trying to follow the rules while the bad guys will do whatever regardless regulation.

US immigration system in the past five years and the South Border (no entry/ no entrance) as an example of bad regulations. Another examples is spending for what is supposed not to spend, but they still spend anyway. The worst example is the department of defense while they failed their own financial audits with $830B for the UNKNOWN. What a massive fraud.

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My story started a year ago. A day I lost an entire access to everything that I have built for three years since a pandemic with questions about the first chapter of human and genAI.

I could not verify my identity on the internet. Nobody was there to help me get an account back. Even worse, I was surrounded by a group of scammers. My entire workspace was completely on the internet. At the end, my account was suspended unexpectedly due to some no detail community policy.

At that moment, I decided to make a twist. Returned to what I left ten years ago to pursue GenAI research with creativity. Privacy and security with a full 5 year PhD in Singapore Management University. It was not easy to do something you intend to leave for doing only one thing, but there is nothing left except for one.

I am become an active observer after being hacked and forced to restart everything from scratch. Instead of being a founder raising the next chunk of capital, I had to apply for a job everywhere in silent tears.

In one week, I quickly completed six months course for Google Cybersecurity Course. It did not sastisfied me. It did not help me answer what happens and how to defend for the next time, so I continued to extend my learning experience with a newsletter by gathering knowledge around and help people similar to me to solve this problem.

The book is a whole story of my second year with GenAI explosion. I will walk you through the most controversy period of 2024 known as the big election. When Donald J Trump known for several accusation for his first term and previous past won the second term – non consecutive term despite of how media predicted that he will lose; the biggest ever cyber security in this history in tech, healthcare, telecomunication and finance; the bottleneck of AI safety and security; also the main updates of policies and prevention for the better future of humanity.

This book is for executives of tech companies, especially foundation and/ or applied AI, or anyone driving the wave of this technologies. Ironically, the more competitive you are, the more you are locked in the eye of a hurricane.

This book acts more a weather report from meteorologist in the morning or a late night show. It provides insights from the distant view point that gives information and strategies in Gen AI safety and Security. This book paints moments that shape history and perception of Y2 GenAI explosion.

Reading this book, you can review the entire year in an entertaining and humor way. Along with the book reports for Quarter, Y2 GenAI Safe and Security is a compliment for the cold fact and details with human common sense and emotion. You can read it in the airport or library. Make in an input for your LLM. Or just enjoy it on weekend with a cup of coffee.

I was hacked. I lost everything. No money. No technical support.

No extra hand. I had to restart by looking for a job in a physical local market.

On the way, I met countless spam and scam companies. Some even use AI to launch the attack as they were proud to show by executing illegal robot call debt services during a pandemic. Most often asked me to give them money or compelete “sending money” tasks to get an offer.

Obviously, I did not anything to pay at all, so disqualified in the first round of several “companies”, but also they taught me how repeative a weird process it is.

THE BEGINNING OF 2024

Cyber Truck Explosion in front of Trump Tower.

And New Orleans car terrorist attack.

More copy cats around.

Many times I have been asking myself about GenAI.

This knowledge when it comes to me, I would try to do it with goodness.

But it does not apply the same for the rest of the world.

AI for Suckers, Stealer, Cheater, Terrorist.

I am looking at a video on the US failure when they let people enter their country. Honestly, the past four years of Biden Administration is such a terrible failure. They are under invasion now. The question is when all of those illegal migrants are gonna take actions.

I can not stop it from happening as how G_D can not help the entire humanity to enter the heaven. We have a choice.

They chose hell.

Is it good or not?

The Hell King will answer.

I am so fed up with the internet. This is everything I have had because of the shit called VISA that I could not return to the US. My life went to a suspension in the past five years.

We can not undo the GenAI for Suckers, Stealers, Cheaters, Terrorists anymore. When it happens, nobody is safe anymore.

Nobody

Y2 is an explosion of GenAI for bad. Not the good.

ORIGINAL STORY

Early 2024, after completing the first book, I encountered an incident that cost me a social account with several thousand of followers and millions of reach worldwide organically that I built in three years. It was also supposed to be a continuation of my first book with the end about questions of human well-being and what deserves to maximize in the age of GenAI. However, this story was suspended.

I lost everything after that breach. The account, the base, the idea pool, data, everything after a few click of buttons. This make me have a twist, return to where I started with GenAI nearly a decade ago with security and privacy which a domain I was supposed to complete a PhD in Singapore.

In 2015, I discovered a paper called Generative Adversarial Networks, but the idea sparks in me wasn't privacy and security, but creativity, art and human imagination with my past in graphical design and content creation. I spent nearly a decade traveling around the world doing several stupid things like competing in hackathon for GPUs with fancy elite university and big tech, and asked top experts to help me improve my coding skills. After three years, I had one of the first GenAI project, but hestitate to publish it to the public. Instead, I tried to write a book imagining what’s next for humanity with this technology.

Mid early 2024, one of my social media was compromised by an unknown group or individual located in Brazil by social engineering. The moment I found something it was too late. Just a few minutes late, my social account has gone. I could not reclaim it despite of several attempts. The platform could not verify my identity. I spammed their employees, but none reply my desperate messages. At that moment, pictures of super realistic deep fake photo with human faces and IDs were spread around the internet like weed.

I had to give up the continuation of the last chapter of the first book about GenAI with an attempt to answer a question on how to do AI for Good, specifically with health and well-being. I spent five years to dig deep into this question as an early stage genAI researcher and completed the first chapter of the initial draft in four years after the OpenAI crisis. It's not imagination, but my deep struggle to answer this question - a haunting vision I had right at the beginning. Until I was able to write more, I firmly believe we should not have GenAI or at least the continuation of the GenAI project I started in 2015-2019.

Now facing this dilema, GenAI has happened without my push. We can not stop what we have released. There is a race between companies and nations. It is so obvious to me that answering a question AI4Good is not must-have anymore. I shifted to anti AI4Bad. At least in my case, given my specific situation, how to prevent more AI4Bad from happening. After complete the Google Course for Cybersecurity, I quickly identified the gap of what the industry thinks and what we supposed to do it right.

Given this knowledge, I started my newsletter and shared what I learned every single week with the open community. Situations turned out much worse than I would expect. My country was chosen as the play ground for hackers with new tools. Several experts in Tech and Finance were targeted for their excercise with "small money". Their goal was not money or the influence, but extortion and practices. The more I opened my search, the more I learned that it was not my country but several developing countries had been chosen for the staging round of those unknown hackers.

The same time, early 2024, there was an event of United Healthcare. From the expertise review, the blame was for an out updated system integrated from an acquired company. This led to an infiltration, that eventually lead to a suspension of the entire system. This loss has been estimated up to a billion of dollar.

At the end of 2024, it's a complete different story. Top security companies known as the monument of the industry are under attack. Along with that is the infrastructure of core services and products in developed countries. The most notable story is a US telecom hack with at least 9 companies compromised including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile that provide internet and telecomunication for hundreds of millions of people around the US, including top official government and the wire tap system only designated for CIA, FBI and other agencies. Right before the end of the year, US Treasury announced a breach related to a third party company that provided digital identity for government workers.

Now I think it's obvious to ask a question to prevent bad AI from happening to us that impacted our internet and digital services. After Covid 19, we moved several products and activities to the internet for convenient. However, given the power of AI, phishing, scaming, DDoS attack are easier than ever. It is now has been operated as a service with one button or to hire.

How to answer this question. We don't even know how to. This is a secret that I discover nearly a decade ago with the same idea that lead to my all-in into AI. Destruction or creation. Excited for creativity but extremely scary if it goes to Destruction.

Not only me, top big companies like Microsoft, Google have public spoken about this even before the US congress. Prominent researchers are also calling for a slow down of this technology. Companies and researchers are call for regulation. However, given the dynamics of free market and maximize for profit mindset, it's extremely hard for markets to slow itself down, especially after raising hundreds of millions and even billions of dollar for GPU computation.

We are now living in a situation similar to US deficit. The gov keeps printing more money to pay for what they could not effort. Now the mountain of debts have been up to 35 trillions after four years from eight trillions.

However, for GenAI, it will not be inflation, the cost of living, FED interest rate, or how to keep up with financial duties for investment fund and borrowers. I would compare this with the crisis of healthcare in the US with the famous 3Ds. Delay, denied and depose. It’s when insurance companies are willing to sacrifice people health and well-being for their maximize profits. It's really painful to know that United Healthcare has earned 425 Billions dollar last year after denying millions of health claims. We are seeing similar story happening to social media with child abuse and online scams and predatory behaviors every where.

Most of people will not agree with me about AI4Bad. It does not happen to them, it does not mean it does not happen. Different from all technology and any kind of invention that human has been created, this is the technology that can think and extremely persuasive. Many people would compare it as God, imaginary friend or your lost love. Also the first time, an entire human population has an opportunity to be in the frontier as long as you have the internet. This event is similar to what happened to covid-19. A wild social experiment that we have not done before and scientists are running to catch up with the state of the art to make it safe and secured to every body.

And as we learn what happened with covid-19, the long covid and side effect of covid vaccine, there will be a fraction of human population that would pay for a cost. I would compare it with air plane crash. You will never know whether it's safe or not to fly by a plane that has zero hour or a very limited number of flying hours. We never know until it is over. You never know until it happens.

But when you know, it’s too late. The damage is irreversible.

PART 1: DREAM & NIGHTMARES