Protecting Truth in the Digital Age

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It’s easy to imagine an AI chatbot as a kind of digital oracle—a vast, disembodied intelligence that somehow knows everything and always answers with confidence. But new research is reminding us that even the most impressive artificial intelligence is still, at the end of the day, a piece of software running on physical machines. And those machines, like any other computer system, can be hacked. A cybersecurity firm called Eclypsium, working with NVIDIA, has published findings that suggest attackers could tamper with the underlying hardware and infrastructure that powers AI models, effectively turning chatbots into misinformation machines. This isn’t about…

More than three decades after the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, when hundreds of thousands of people were killed in roughly one hundred days, the long pursuit of justice has not faded. It has shifted from the hills and roadblocks of Rwanda to courtrooms in Boston, Paris, The Hague, and Kigali, carried by survivors who refuse to let the world forget. In a Boston federal courtroom, a jury convicted Eric Tabaro Nshimiye, a 54-year-old Rwandan-born man who had been living in Ohio, of four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. The conviction did not come…

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