Tag: intellectual property
Employee mistrust of workplace AI is growing
Amid widespread speculation that artificial intelligence (AI) will make most of today’s jobs redundant and even replace humanity itself, the UK’s Institute for the Future of Work has taken a more pragmatic approach. Its study on the impact of modern technologies on almost 5,000 workers highlights employee concerns about the adverse effect AI is already having on their day-to-day work lives. While the majority of those surveyed believed that older technologies such as laptops and smartphones generally improve their quality of life, the same is not true of AI.
Businesses turn their back on GenAI
The reaction of businesses to the introduction of generative AI (GenAI) in the year since the launch of Microsoft-backed ChatGPT is one of increasing suspicion and disappointment. Over one in four organizations have banned the use of GenAI outright. The majority of companies are now also refusing to trust a technology that has already gained a reputation for making errors and even entirely fabricating information, a failing that is referred to as “hallucinating”. According to Cisco’s newly-released 2024 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, 68 percent of organizations mistrust GenAI because it gets results wrong and 69 percent also believe it could hurt their company’s legal rights. The study draws on responses from 2,600 privacy and security professionals across 12 geographies.
Storm gathers over the cloud
News of the mass exploitation of ownCloud customers as a result of a zero-day vulnerability follows revelations earlier this month of a critical security vulnerability in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Reports of gaping security flaws in cloud services come at a bad time for cloud service providers in general and Microsoft in particular. The Seattle-based computing giant is currently doing its utmost to persuade the US, UK, and Australian governments that its Azure Government Cloud is the best way for the AUKUS trio to securely update cross-border information and enhance mutual collaboration. This might prove problematic for Microsoft, whose Azure platform was recently proven to have a critical vulnerability, and some of whose government clients suffered a series of serious breaches earlier this year.