The Limits of Decriminalization, End of Diversity?, Growing Partisanship, AI Criminals

The Limits of Decriminalization [00:40]

Scenes From a City That Only Hands Out Tickets for Using Fentanyl (New York Times, 7/31/23)
‘It’s crazy out there’: The reasons behind Oregon’s deepening drug crisis (OPB, 5/30/23)
Did Measure 110 take away ‘rock bottom’? Oregon cops seem to think so (KGW, 6/6/23)
Oregon cities, counties say Measure 110 blew a hole in their budgets (OPB, 2/9/23)
Survey Shows Oregonians Have Dim Outlook on Efficacy of Measure 110 (Wweek, 5/13/23)
Measure 110 forced Oregon to build a new drug addiction services model. Here’s how that’s going (OPB, 6/27/23)
Lost Debate Special | NYC’s Safe Consumption Sites (Lost Debate, 5/8/22)

End of Diversity? [17:35]

The Legal Assault on Corporate Diversity Efforts Has Begun (Wall Street Journal, 8/8/23)
US companies’ diversity efforts are legal, Democratic officials say (Reuters, 7/19/23)
Republican state officials threaten legal action over company diversity policies (Reuters, 7/14/23)
Fortune 100 companies are getting swarmed by Republican AGs using the Supreme Court affirmative action as a lever into the workplace (Fortune, 7/15/23)
Affirmative action ruling puts target on corporate diversity programs (Washington Post, 6/29/23)
Affirmative Action Ruling May Upend Hiring Policies, Too (New York Times, 6/30/23)
Does the US Supreme Court Decision on Affirmative Action Affect Your Company’s Diversity Initiatives? (Catalyst, 6/29/23)

Growing Partisanship [31:59]

America’s deepest partisan divides are getting deeper (Axios, 8/7/23)
Update: Partisan Gaps Expand Most on Government Power, Climate (Gallup, 8/7/23)
Record number of Americans say they’re politically independent (Axios, 4/17/23)
Partisan Gap Widens on Hot-Button Issues: Gallup Report (National Review, 8/7/23)
Ohio Vote Shows Abortion’s Potency to Reshape Elections (New York Times, 8/9/23)
Gallup: Most Important Problem
U.S. Immigration Views Remain Mixed and Highly Partisan (Gallup, 8/8/22)
Majority Continues to Say U.S. Government Too Powerful (Gallup, 10/19/22)
Partisan Differences Growing on a Number of Issues (Gallup, 8/3/17)
Where Do Americans Stand on Abortion? (Gallup, 7/7/23)
Americans’ Satisfaction With K-12 Education on Low Side (Gallup, 10/1/23)
A Steady Six in 10 Say Global Warming’s Effects Have Begun (Gallup, 4/20/23)
More green investment hasn’t softened red resistance on climate (CNN, 5/2/23)
U.S. Party Preferences Evenly Split in 2022 After Shift to GOP (Gallup, 1/12/23)
What the data says about Americans’ views of climate change (Pew, 9/9/23)

AI Criminals

Criminals Have Created Their Own ChatGPT Clones (Wired, 8/7/23)
WormGPT – The Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using to Launch Business Email Compromise Attacks (Slash Net, 7/13/23)
What is Worm GPT? The new AI behind the recent wave of cyberattacks (Dazed and Confused, 7/18/23)
How ChatGPT and Other LLMs Work—and Where They Could Go Next (4/30/23)
Meet the Brains Behind the Malware-Friendly AI Chat Service ‘WormGPT’ (Krebson Security, 8/8/23)
Can AI Fix America’s Cybersecurity Woes? The White House Thinks So. (Gizmodo, 8/9/23)
Defense Department launches two-year AI cyber challenge at Black Hat (Axios, 8/9/23)
There’s no reason to panic over WormGPT (Tech Crunch, 8/1/23)
Is ChatGPT’s ‘evil twin’ FraudGPT itself a scam? (Fast Company, 7/28/23)
FraudGPT: The Villain Avatar of ChatGPT (Netenrich, 7/25/23)
FBI warns of broad AI threats facing tech companies and the public (Cyber Scoop, 7/28/23)
Generative AI Projects Pose Major Cybersecurity Risk to Enterprises (Dark Reading, 7/28/23)
AI KNOWS WHAT YOU’RE TYPING JUST BY HEARING IT OVER A ZOOM (Futurism, 8/8/23)
FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Leading Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI (White House, 7/21/23)