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Політика

Edward Snowden: Researchers Should Train AI to Be ‘Better Than Us’

The former NSA whistleblower shared his hopes that AI’s intelligence could exceed that of humans and ultimately benefit humanity, despite fears the technology could be co-opted by bad actors. 

Edward Snowden (onscreen)  (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Фінанси

Chelsea Manning: 'I'm Trying to Put the Cryptography Back in Crypto'

The whistleblower turned security consultant also says the internet's basic infrastructure is not suited to privacy.

Chelsea Manning at Consensus 2023 (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Думки

The U.S. Should Lead the Digital Future of Money

In his speech ay CoinDesk’s Consensus festival Wednesday, Chris Giancarlo, the head of the non-profit Digital Dollar Project, said a U.S. central bank digital currency is too important to be left to central bankers to design. Money is a social issue requiring broad-based public engagement.

Christopher Giancarlo (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Технології

Trezor Model T Gets Bitcoin Privacy Upgrade With New CoinJoin Feature

CoinJoin will increase privacy by combining multiple bitcoin payments from multiple spenders to produce a single transaction whose history and ownership are obfuscated.

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Думки

Who Really Benefits From CBDCs? It’s Not the Public

The only people benefitting from central bank digital currencies are lobbyists, tech companies and, yes, central banks, say the Cato Institute’s Nicholas Anthony and Norbert J. Michel.

(Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

StarkNet Aims to Enhance Scalability, Privacy and Security on Ethereum

One of the first projects to integrate the intriguing new mechanism of account abstraction has already gotten Visa on board to secure payments processing for crypto transactions. That’s why StarkNet is a 2023 Project to Watch.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

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AI Boosters Would Sacrifice Humanity for a Simulacra - as Long as They're in Control

AI boosterism and associated “long-termist” ideas may be a threat to your privacy, property and civil rights.

Eliezer Yudkowsky's "AI Safety" movement has gazed into the distant future - and decided you shouldn't be allowed to have privacy in the present. (Wikimedia Commons)

Consensus Magazine

Privacy-Preserving Payments Shouldn't Be 'Niche', Monero Contributor Justin Ehrenhofer Says

Cake Wallet's vice president of operations discusses privacy in a post-Tornado Cash world, global data policies and Monero's "technical debt" ahead of Consensus 2023.

U.S. lawmakers must prevent the further erosion of our privacy rights by defending  privacy-preserving tech and passing laws against unreasonable and constant digital surveillance. (Chris Yang, Unsplash)

Технології

New Privacy Blockchain Namada Proposes First-Ever Shielded Airdrop to Zcash

Namada is a layer 1 blockchain for multichain privacy, according to a release provided to CoinDesk.

Airdrop (Viaframe/Getty Images)

Думки

Anti-TikTok Politicking Shows Worst Tendencies of U.S. Pols

The RESTRICT Act and other attempts to ring fence foreign tech would disrupt the open internet at the same time crypto is under threat.

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)