🚨 New Ethical Reckoner alert! 🚨 This week, you get two editions—today’s Reckonnaisance and Tuesday’s Extra Reckoning (feat. a super-secret report 👀). For now, here’s what’s in today’s edition: encryption threats, crypto sports gambling, #AI buzzwords, and AI safety moves. 🧵👇
3️⃣ The latest AI buzzword? #Distillation - #OpenSource AI models are rapidly advancing—by copying closed models. - Companies like OpenAI & Google hate it, but they can’t stop it. - The big question: Is open-source really catching up to proprietary AI?
2️⃣ #Crypto platforms sneak into sports betting - Crypto.com & Kalshi offer “swaps” on the Super Bowl, dodging gambling regs. - “We’re not sportsbooks, we swear”—but regulators aren’t buying it. - Could create an unregulated, highly addictive gambling loophole.
1️⃣ UK’s secret demand for #iCloud backdoor - A gov order under the “Snoopers’ Charter” demands Apple weaken iCloud encryption. - If implemented, users won’t even know the backdoor exists. - A backdoor for one == a backdoor for all.