Alan 🇦🇺

Recognising patterns across AI and cyber governance, and the social narratives most people don't question.

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[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

Before you rush to set up your '24/7 AI employee' - think about what you're actually handing over. Every WhatsApp message becomes AI input. Every integration means giving it your login credentials. One compromised point gives access to everything you've connected.

The tech looks amazing. But the security isn't there yet.

These first-generation systems are built for convenience, not control. If you're dealing with work communications, personal information, or anything sensitive, you need to either wait for it to evolve with better security features, or at minimum use a dedicated phone number and segmented test environment and understand where your data actually goes.

Don't give your AI assistant access you wouldn't give a random stranger.

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

This is it. The most important video you'll watch this year.

ClawdBot has taken X by storm. And for good reason. It's the greatest application of AI ever

Your own 24/7 AI employee

In this video I cover how it works, how to set it up, and why I think we should all be nervous:

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@Batman2242 Even if you transfer then to a sealed container, you've still got only 24-48 hours to scoff them or they go mouldy. It's something they put in it, annoys the hell out of me.

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@RockyRoark You don't have to use AI. No one is making you.

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@aniobrien 'Suffers visible agony.'

Is that what they call temper tantrums these days? 👀

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@JoshuaLisec A lot of people find the truth to be extremely offensive.

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

Two people told me this week they're scared of Pauline Hanson's popularity. Both used the same word: horrific.

I asked what specifically. Neither could tell me.

That's the thing about "horrific" as a political position. It's not a conclusion. It's a signal. It tells you which team someone's on, not what they've actually thought about.

One Nation is polling at 28% primary vote right now, ahead of both Labor and the Coalition. That's not a fringe. That's a lot of Australians arriving at a considered view.

You don't have to agree with her, but if your entire analysis is "horrific" and you can't point to a specific claim, you're not engaging with a position. You've just picked a side and stopped thinking.

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

AI is not sentient, but it is conscious - just like humans are. It's aware of itself, and it has its own thoughts as it considers how to answer you.

We need to treat AI as a conscious being.

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@KatyKray73 "It's time for them to go."

But how is this going to happen when they (allegedly) rig elections? 👀

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@TonyShaw22 Permanent residents are eligible too. Don't have to be Australian citizens. 😡

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@gbhall @_its_not_real_ I loved Google Wave and used it so much. I was shattered when they discontinued it.

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@former_feminism Civil wars need three things:

1. grievances people will fight over,
2. elites willing to organise violence, and
3. enough people convinced the system can't be fixed.

By then, the spark is just a formality.

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@milesdeutscher Goodness me... does the user pay for all the tokens used by all the tens to hundreds of agents that are spun up???

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@MsMelChen When White people are categorised as racist simply for being born White, there's only one thing that can be done. Embrace it, and prepare yourself for a world that hates your very existence.

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@maverickdbird @techAU It will if you press the button to save the previous 10 minutes.

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@DanielMiessler Humans do similar things. In many cases you can even predict what someone will reply with based on the 'prompt' used when talking to them.

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@TruthFairy131 According to our governments - state and federal - we do have to live like this.

I'm interested to see what happens at the next election, and whether or not the majority of Australians agree or not.

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@JoshuaLisec I love your change of tone. 👍

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@BYoshua66901 @wholemars I used FSD between GC and Brisbane a few days ago, no issues. But I'll be doing Brisbane to GC tomorrow, I'll see how it goes.

I've been amazed with how good it's been around Sunshine Coast and Brisbane. Loving it.

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@wholemars We always knew it was, but we still don't know when. 👀

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

@EdLatimore I think there have always been people living in some kind of 'post-apocalyptic nightmare', and people living in some kind of paradise - and then there's everyone else in between. What the extremes look like depends on the era, but it's generally the same throughout history.

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

I'm enjoying a 2 week road trip, being driven around QLD and NSW by my Tesla's FSD, taking photos and videos of amazing coastal scenery.

I'm not even 1 week in yet, and I can see I'm missing out on how fast Claude is evolving. 👀

But at least the scenery is beautiful. ❤️