#AI vulnerabilities

[code-of-conflict]

AI, Cybersecurity, and National Sovereignty

Introduction: The Role of AI in Cybersecurity

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes integral to national security, cyber threats increasingly exploit AI-driven vulnerabilities. Both India and China face the challenge of securing their cyber infrastructure while mitigating espionage and offensive cyber operations. The risks include large-scale data breaches, intellectual property theft, and attacks on critical infrastructure. With AI enhancing the scope and speed of cyberattacks, national sovereignty is increasingly threatened by cyber vulnerabilities that transcend borders.

AI-Driven Cyber Threats and Espionage

China has heavily integrated AI into its cyber capabilities, using it to enhance espionage, cyber warfare, and information manipulation. AI-enabled cyber operations allow China to gather vast amounts of intelligence data through advanced hacking techniques. These tools are often deployed through state-sponsored groups, exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities and penetrating government and corporate networks worldwide​.

For example, in 2021, China was accused of orchestrating a large-scale cyber-attack targeting Microsoft Exchange servers, affecting over 30,000 organizations globally. This attack was designed to facilitate espionage, capturing sensitive information ranging from corporate intellectual property to government data​. China's cyber operations underscore the increasing use of AI in orchestrating sophisticated, large-scale intrusions that threaten national sovereignty.

India, while lagging behind China in offensive cyber capabilities, faces persistent cyber espionage threats from Chinese state-sponsored actors. The most notable incidents occurred during the 2020 India-China border standoff, where Chinese hackers targeted India's critical infrastructure, including power grids and government networks​. These attacks highlight the vulnerabilities in India's cybersecurity architecture and its need to enhance AI-driven defenses.

Vulnerabilities and National Sovereignty

AI-driven cyber threats pose significant risks to national sovereignty. For India, the challenges are magnified by the relatively underdeveloped nature of its cybersecurity infrastructure. Although the establishment of the Defence Cyber Agency in 2018 marked a step forward, India still lacks the offensive cyber capabilities and AI sophistication of China​. India's defensive posture primarily focuses on securing critical infrastructure and mitigating cyber intrusions, but it remains vulnerable to cyber espionage and attacks on its digital economy.

China's integration of AI into both military and civilian cyber systems, through its Military-Civil Fusion policy, has bolstered its ability to conduct large-scale cyber operations with deniability. This fusion allows China to leverage private sector innovations for military purposes, making it a formidable cyber power in the Indo-Pacific region​.

Case Studies: Cyber Confrontations

In 2019, a significant cyberattack targeted India's Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, which was traced back to North Korea, but was believed to be part of a broader effort involving Chinese actors. This incident highlighted the potential for AI-enhanced malware to target critical infrastructure, posing severe risks to national security.

Similarly, the 2020 Mumbai blackout, reportedly linked to Chinese hackers, emphasized how AI-driven cyberattacks can disrupt essential services, creating chaos in times of geopolitical tension​. These incidents illustrate how AI-driven cyber capabilities are increasingly weaponized, posing severe risks to India's sovereignty and its ability to protect critical infrastructure.

Implications for Future Conflicts

As AI continues to evolve, the cyber domain will become a primary battleground in future conflicts between India and China. AI-enhanced cyber operations provide both nations with the ability to conduct espionage, sabotage, and information warfare remotely, without direct military engagement. For China, these tools are integral to its broader geopolitical strategy, while India must develop its AI and cybersecurity capabilities to protect its national sovereignty and counteract cyber threats​.

Conclusion

The integration of AI into cybersecurity poses both opportunities and challenges for India and China. While China has aggressively developed AI-driven cyber capabilities, India faces an urgent need to enhance its defenses and develop its offensive cyber tools. As cyberattacks become more sophisticated, driven by AI, both nations will continue to grapple with the implications of these developments on national sovereignty and global security.

[bixels]

As cameras becomes more normalized (Sarah Bernhardt encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use cameras because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by manufacturing companies. I paint not because I want a painting but because I love the process of painting. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

if i have to explain to you that using a camera to take a picture is not the same as using generative ai to generate an image then you are a fucking moron.

[offlineblues]

having a shared unconditional love will let them overcome anything as long as they are together ❤️‍🩹💔

[casualavocados]

You've never done that when I got close to you before. Why? None of your business. Tell me, or you can't leave.

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 10

[metamorphicmuse]

Briefly Beautiful

[crescenthistory]

yes, the consequences of ai in academia can be devastating and we should be concerned about it. but you know what else we should be concerned about? the impact of the overt suspicion and paranoia against students just trying to get through their degrees to survive in this world

you think scrutinising students and trying to decipher who has and hasn’t used ai will be done without bias or prejudice? you think international students won’t be flagged for using “too formal/static” language because that’s how they learned english? you think poc, disabled or other minorities that are often belittled won’t be unjustly flagged for sounding “smarter than they are”? you think lower-class students will be unaffected by having to spend extra time and resources to show up at meetings to prove they haven’t used ai?

it’s never going to be a fair and proportionate impact when we focus all our energy on “catching” the bad ones

conversations around ai should always acknowledge and emphasise the safety of students and people, we cannot become hyper vigilant unpaid police who try to point out who’s “fake” with no regard to how subconscious biases affect the direction of your finger

[gojoest]

the light of my life, the apple of my eye, the sunshine of my days, the beacon of my heart, the spark in my eyes, the fire in my soul, the center of my universe

[fillyreports]

Trying (really, genuinely, trying) is always always always inherently vulnerable. I have wretched news for you! Vulnerability is embarrassing! It is difficult to start to things with any ounce of honesty because it's always embarrassing to try!!! ESPECIALLY IF YOU FAIL!!!!

I think a big reason people have started hoping on the ai "art" train is because it circumvents the need to be vulnerable, as well as the need to fail before you get good at something. It is 100% necessary to be vulnerable (if not with the whole world, then at least with yourself) to try anything new, let alone to make art of any kind.

[carlyraejepsans]

look i understand that ai generated content is a controversial topic, and ultimately protecting artists' intellectual property should take moral priority, but i feel like when people say "you don't want character.ai you want to rp with someone" they're kinda missing the point because unlike a chatbot, you can't exactly look your rp partner in the eye and say "that sucked ass. do that again"

[notchainedtotrauma]

ID [ willowsmith. Recently, I've been exploring the concept of vulnerability through an ecological lens. Seeing it more as a holistic system that protects the life balance by fostering a direct and mindful with the environment, not just a psychological state. Early humans were naked and barefoot in prehistoric times, forcing them to be acutely aware of their surroundings.

Carelessness was a one-way ticket to death. This deep understanding kept them cautious and balanced. Their vulnerability wasn't a weakness but a feedback loop that demanded care and respect for the world they moved through.

The healthy fear of protecting our bare feet would prevent us from stepping on sharp objects and living beings alike.

The protection of shoes allows us to tread carelessly through the world, facing little to no consequence when stepping on a sharp rock or a scarab beetle.

This shifts reflects a larger pattern in human progress-each technological "advancement" is powered by the desire to be exempt from nature's mood, further insulating us from her will and interrupting the natural systems of "essential vulnerability" that once kept us in harmony.

The more we demonize vulnerability (in all forms), the easier it becomes to act without care and to exploit ecosystems without feeling remorse. We don't feel remorse for the insect that perishes under our shoe; we most likely were unaware it was there. Progress itself isn't inherently harmful, but things become precarious when the intention behind it severs us from the sensitivity that vulnerability fosters. The challenge is finding a way to rewrite that powerful narrative of denial coiled at the center of modern progression-a way to protect ourselves without forgetting the ground beneath our feet. by Willow Smith ] end of ID

I wonder what a conversation between Alexis Pauline Gumbs (who liked this Instagram post) and her on the subject of ecological vulnerability (because that's basically the whole of Alexis Pauline Gumbs' work when it comes to this area of Black feminism) would look like.

[nonverbalnaji]

I'll admit. Last year I wondered if using gen-AI would help unblock me from writing. I tried it by telling it to give me a paragraph of XYZ.

I hated it so much I wrote a 2500 word chapter out of spite because I knew even unedited I could write better than it could. But my shot confidence that led me to try it? I examined it.

While I was already moving away from the publishing industry and the toxicity of rapid release, it was also tapping into the bigger web of issues around commercialism, capitalism, and just... the world. And that was a *year* ago.

Being a creative today feels like being torn in various directions while trying to keep the strands of yourself in tact. And there is so, so much fear.

I'm scared to post this because there will be people who think because I tried it once and decided Nope, that I'm untrustworthy. The internet (at least, X) is where nuance dies but that's why I'm writing this on tumblr rather than bluesky.

I feel frustrated at the idea that being on the internet (and tbh, being autistic) I could be accused of not being human, and feel a pressure to identify myself and thus jeopardise my privacy to stand up for myself.

I feel tired about it all.

Writing fanfiction reconnected me with joy and *fun*. The whimsy to create and I've surprised myself so much by finding my groove and trusting the past hyperfoci on narrative structure really has helped my intuition. I always thought I was a hard outliner/plotter but I've been writing by the seat of my pants with rough flagpoles of things I know will happen.

How TF could I have thought replacing the process of creation could ever be worth it? Answer: to meet pressured criteria of algorithms, the "you must do this now" scarcity tactics, and a lot of my own ish I've been unpacking.

I have worked with various published authors and still watch that world but now with some distance because no amount of money or clout or recognition by publishing houses is worth it to me now that I've had this experience:

A reader left a comment telling me that they felt comforted by and seen in my story.

If I suddenly am never able to write again, I will still feel fulfilled because I made an impact like that to someone out there.

For my own sense of safety, I'm not transparent about a lot of things in my real life but I think I'm comfy enough to share that like a lot of us, I was that kid who sat alone at lunch reading books.

Feeling a sense of connection without relinquishing my safety, identity, or sacrificing the joy of creativity is something I didn't think was possible a year ago.

It doesn't mean I'm still not scared about the world and have worries that could probably power a toaster. But having this small little thing in my corner of the world, I hope to tend to it kindly and with authenticity.

I'm still gonna get nervous about disappointing people with delayed chapters and I'm scared to share the original world I've built by writing fanfic set in it.

But I know that as long as I communicate what I can, people are understanding and I now have proof that my own excitement and joy can be translated across to the page.

Anyway, if you read this far, I hope you have a day today in which you can take a deep breath because you are here, you are here, you are here...

[casualavocados]

You look better this way. What way? Nothing. I couldn't get a hold of you for days. Did you work undercover in the school and help Zherui investigate?

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 08

[thepoisonroom]

this is going to sound insane but was hot mean tech lady in the effective altruism / rational altruism cult lol. i ask out of curiosity bc i think its so funny (tho bad) how it infiltrates so many like. polyamorous STEM social circles

literallyyyyy was and i didn't realize until after things ended between us because she was like 'oh i'm really into philosophy' and i was like hmmm pink flag but you are very hot..... i had read like a very neutral article about ethical altruists in some magazine years before so thought they were just kind of ultimately harmless ascetics

it's so hard to explain to people who haven't been in the bay area dating scene just how insane the ea/longtermism crowd is. i was also working at a bay area bookstore at the time so got a really good insight into their obsession with like. attached and daniel kahneman and whatever.

idk i'm literally presenting at an academic conference about their like apocalyptic cult freak shit just so i can talk about how insane it is. if you ever want to talk about this hit me up lol. or even if you don't this wired article was a really lurid wild tale abt rationalist shit

[yuseirra]

One thing that I notice about Ai (and Hikaru too) is that they refer to the twins as "Our" children. I'm not sure if that's conveyed in the official English translations but Ai uses "うち"の子 when she swoons about her kids in CH 2, CH4 and when she explains about her kids over the phone in CH 8 (I checked the anime, and it's the same there, too.) I'm not entirely familiar with Japanese, but this didn't get lost in translation from my hard copies, so I think it's safe to think Ai believed that the twins weren't hers alone. If she never wished to acknowledge the father and didn't wish to get her precious children be associated with the guy, I feel she'd have phrased it as "my" children.

Hikaru also refers to Ruby as his and Ai's child(CH 72). They both acknowledge that the kids are something they have together. Never got to be a happy family of four but Ai probably did always have that sort of thought linger in her head

[phosphophylight-of-my-life]

oshi no ko aqua is such a fun character bc by most counts he's a more than decent guy.

in his first life he regularly visited hospital inpatients who had no visitors. he was genuinely happy and excited to help Ai deliver her babies, because he wants her to be happy on her own terms. he saves Akane simply because he can, and gets angry at the staff on her behalf. he doesn't stop at saving her life and spends sleepless nights turning around her public image. at that point there was nothing in it for him to keep akane around, she was just a person he was able to help and wanted to help.

by most counts he's a pretty decent guy who steps up when people need him most, except. except he's also a guy who really wants to kill his dad and that makes him manipulate people somewhat often and this is somehow not entirely at odds with his instinct to help others

[gojoest]

one last thing, non freaks unfollow me this instant block me for better