Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”
2026-07-24T19:23:40Z•b848a2590f29f32d7a47284ded4632e1c28c88fd1ace883cfc40aaee1e71279b
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What happened
This collection of Schneier blog posts covers security and privacy issues around AI, encryption, surveillance, and identity. Key items: a proposal for a “Genie coefficient” to measure the gap between user intent and AI behavior (AI alignment/benchmarking); an updated survey of the “Going Dark” debate over end-to-end encryption and recent government proposals to limit E2EE; a first-person identity-theft case highlighting email as a single point of failure and risks from social-engineered 2FA bypasses; MIT’s planned deployment of 500+ AI-enabled surveillance cameras with face/object/class-based,
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