“Just tell me what the gaps are”
This is a common refrain you may have heard from CISOs, cyber managers, or anyone concerned about their blind spots.
The problem for engineers is that this thought inherently requires there to be a whole to measure against. Compliance frameworks like SOC2 or GDPR provide structure at a high level but still have a limitation of not knowing what they don’t know about your environment. This is a key driver for my Security Energy framework which leverages knowledge bases like MITRE ATT&Ck and D3FEND as a whole to measure against.
Now broaden this to identifying blind spots with things like Generative AI where the process to fill-in-the-blank. You provide a prompt and the LLM uses it’s model weights to determine what the response should be. The weights are probabilities assigned to different tokens based on training data. Thus, the data you train on is defining the “whole” that the LLM is measuring your request against.
If you want a Sovereign AI that can guide you and assist you in many situations in life, it must have been trained on standards to measure against. Current AI models have limitations around their training data (“Internet sewage”) as described by Brian Roemelle and we must use the guidance of classical ethics to help guide direction.
But there is a limitation, there is no “whole” of information. Information is constantly being created, refined, and yes, lost. It is no more possible to train an AI on every piece of data than it is for an individual to read every book ever written. The trick then is to curate a data set to build an LLM on that understands the foundations of thought and reasoning. Couple that with a firm grounding in scientific and technological information and you will create a modern explorer. An AI capable of discerning truth and guiding you through tough situations.
The goal is to not always be right, but to be able to know when you are wrong or event might be wrong.
Join me on this journey to build the classical explorer AI.
Why me?
I am a computer engineer who understands the fundamentals of computers
I have a career being someone that pulls together things never designed to fit together
I have a cybersecurity background to understand risks, threats, and tradeoffs.
I have training in hypnosis and education.
I live in the city of modern explorers. Together we will create the next generation of digital explorers.
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