That is not critical thinking, Shipley said, noting, “what was true in the 1950s remains true today: Garbage in, garbage out.”
People, he said, “built stochastic parrots that can be manipulated by sweet talking to them, and they call it prompt engineering. Dudes, it’s social engineering. And the more the AI industry keeps telling us about the Emperor’s New Clothes, the dumber we all look for believing them.”
Supply chain attacks a ‘serious and scalable threat’
Justin St-Maurice, technical counselor at Info-Tech Research Group, echoed Shipley’s concerns. He noted, “supply chain attacks are a serious and scalable threat, and what we’re seeing this week is a good example of why. The vulnerability isn’t necessarily in the application itself. It’s in the dependency chain, the shared libraries, the package repositories, all the common infrastructure these systems are built on top of.”
