Phil Stafford

Dec 9, 2024 | medium.com | Phil Stafford

Phil Stafford·Follow4 min read·--You might want to sit down for this one. I’ve got my hands on “Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models”, a paper published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research in September 2024. It outlines over 200 different unsolved problems with respect to LLMs. It’s geared towards researchers and mostly meant to provide a roadmap for junior researchers to investigate currently unanswered questions in the LLM space.

Nov 29, 2024 | medium.com | Phil Stafford

Phil Stafford·Follow5 min read·--You’ve spent years locking your doors, securing your networks, and patrolling your digital borders. Then, from out of nowhere, an AI system saunters in like it owns the place, bringing with it a whole new set of vulnerabilities. Welcome to AI security, where traditional cybersecurity tools only scratch the surface, and threats come from places you’d least expect — like the data you thought you could trust. AI security is not just cybersecurity with a fancier name.

Nov 4, 2024 | medium.com | Phil Stafford

Phil Stafford·Follow3 min read·--This is fine. Everything is fine. In a fascinating hack that feels straight out of sci-fi, cybersecurity researcher Johann Rehberger, aka wunderwuzzi, recently transformed Claude, the language model by Anthropic, into an unwitting “ZombAI.” Wunderwuzzi’s ethical hacking research has drawn big attention, showing how AI tools can be manipulated in ways no one quite expected.

Mar 15, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Colin Packham |Phil Stafford |Richard Blackburn |Nathan Schmidt

An alarm has been raised about the future of Australia’s famed ski fields after a new report into the effects of climate change found snowfall may drop by almost 80 per cent. The report by researchers at the University of Bayreauth in Germany found snowfall in the Australian Alps could be slashed by 2100 if global emissions continue to increase.

Dec 7, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Will Hodgkinson |Brad Norington |Phil Stafford |Stephen Romei

From The Times My artist of the year won me over with a 33-minute, uninterrupted musical meditation on life, death, faith and the great beyond. Seven Psalms by Paul Simon features seven movements, interlinked by an acoustic motif and lyrical reflections on the nature of God that came to Simon in a series of dreams.