Peter Hartcher: Cyber safety needs seatbelt moment to cope with metachaos
“The new notices ask binary questions of them to try to get to the bottom of what they do,” she says. “You are either screening for child sexual abuse material or you are not.”
“Nobody has put their feet to the fire, and they don’t want the information to get out,” the Australian regulator says. “Our 200-person organisation is nimble but small and we can’t regulate the entire internet.” But today it’ll be announced that the UK, Fiji and Ireland will join with Australia to create the first international grouping of regulators with a mission to improve online safety.
“Think about the metaverse where everything will be immersive, hyper sensitive, with haptic suits that are full sensory, with generative AI evolving quickly, we already have deep fakes, no doubt a lot of sexual [simulation] – what could possibly go wrong?” as Inman Grant puts it. All unregulated. Add scammers, hackers, hostile nation states and organised crime networks and the potential is as unlimited as it is dystopian.
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