German war history is frequently told incorrectly, obscuring huge waste and a lack of mechanization related to Nazi incompetence. A history book “Mechanized Juggernaut Or Military Anachronism“, for example, is described by its publisher as “myth-busting”: One of the great misconceptions about World War II is the notion that the German Army was a marvel … Continue reading The power of disinformation: “75 percent of the German Army relied on horses” in WWII→
I gave another presentation this year at the ISACA SF conference. It felt like a guilty pleasure to be standing in person again with an audience. Since so many people asked me for a copy of the slides, here they are: 3MB PDF: Ottenheimer-Auditing_AI-ISACASF2021 See also: My 2019 ISACA SF keynote presentation “Whose AIs Are … Continue reading ISACA SF 2021: AI Auditing→
Yesterday I have a talk at ISACA-SF where I repeatedly emphasized how AI auditing is about testing things in a way that breaks them. This shouldn’t be news to anyone used to testing things, and yet many of the platforms somehow are trying to respond to algorithm failure by telling people to stop the tests. … Continue reading Testing Things the “Wrong Way” is the Right Way to Test→
TL;DR Amazon created a “big eyes” screen to weaponize surveillance “especially problematic for children, who don’t have the capacity to understand” such overt manipulation tactics. Calling their robot stupid is like saying kid cereal is just sugar. Children “fall in love with” something targeting them with harm. A new MIT thought piece called “Amazon’s Astro … Continue reading Amazon Astro Robot “especially problematic for children”→