Transfer over malware: Why one teen is extra apprehensive about AI (re-air) (Lock and Code S05E18)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast…

All ages group makes use of the web a bit bit in another way, and it seems for a minimum of one Gen Z teen within the Bay Space, the basic strategy to cyberecurity—defending towards viruses, ransomware, worms, and extra—is the least of her issues. Of much more significance is Synthetic Intelligence (AI).

As we speak, the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz revisits a previous episode from 2023 about what youngsters worry essentially the most about going surfing. The dialog is a robust reminder that when America’s youngest generations expertise on-line is much from the identical expertise that Millennials, Gen X’ers, and Child Boomers had with their very own introduction to the web.

Even stronger proof of that is present in latest analysis that Malwarebytes debuted this summer season about how folks in dedicated relationships share their areas, passwords, and gadgets with each other. As detailed within the bigger report, “What’s mine is yours: How {couples} share an all-access move to their digital lives,” Gen Z respondents have been the almost certainly to say that they received a sense of security when sharing their areas with vital others.

However a wrinkle appeared in that conduct, in line with the identical analysis: Gen Z was additionally the almost certainly to say that they solely shared their areas as a result of their companions pressured them to take action.

In our full dialog from final yr, we converse with Nitya Sharma about how her “favourite app” to make use of with associates is “Discover My” on iPhone, the hazards are of AI “sneak assaults,” and why she merely can’t be bothered about malware. 

“I do know that there’s a risk of sharing data with unhealthy folks after which abusing it, however I simply don’t know what you’d do with it. Present as much as my home and attempt to kill me?” 

Tune in right now to hearken to the complete dialog.

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Present notes and credit:

Intro Music: “Spellbound” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed below Inventive Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Outro Music: “Good God” by Wowa (unminus.com)


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