*Elections in UK and US at risk from [neural-network-generated] disinformation, say experts.*

To refer to these systems as "artificial intelligence" spreads confusion, so I don't call them that. Please join me in that refusal.

*You Should Not Trust Russia’s New "Trusted Root [certification authority for https]".*

Starmer has proposed a real, significant change: to build millions of housing units under government direction, to avoid a massive give-away to the rich.

How Putin could be prosecuted for the crime of aggressive war.

Regime change in Russia would probably be a change for the better, but it would be foolish to insist on that if it interferes with reaching a just peace to end the war. We should allow Putin to remain in power in Russia if he agrees to release all of Ukraine's territory.

On Monday, June 5th, RMS will give a talk, "Digital Freedom and Digital Privacy", in Rende, Italy, in the Great Hall at the University of Calabria.

The talk will follow a roundtable, "Relating Language Models, Future Artificial Intelligence, Massive Data Collection, Open Source, and Free (Libre) Software":
Moderator: Giovambattista Ianni, Professor of Computer Science Participants:
Vincenzo Bruno, Founder of Coopyleft
Ines Crispini, Steering Board of the Italian Society for AI Ethics
Stefano De Carlo, Board of Hacklab
Gianluigi Greco, President of the Italian Assoc. for Artificial Intelligence
Antonello Mantuano, Senior director of Cerved S.p.A.
Giuseppe Rossi, Director of Unical's ICT Services
Domenico Talia, Professor of Information Processing Systems

Both are in English.