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> Peter has also cofounded or [co]-created many impactful privacy and cybersecurity projects, including Let's Encrypt, Certbot, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere
by notRobot 4y ago
> Peter has also cofounded or [co]-created many impactful privacy and cybersecurity projects, including Let's Encrypt, Certbot, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere, Panopticlick;
From his website: https://pde.is/about/ https://pde.is/about/
RIP
- transpute 4y agohttps://twitter.com/bcrypt/status/1565867388741898240 https://twitter.com/bcrypt/status/1565867388741898240
- avg_dev 4y ago> Peter's AI policy work has mostly been on setting sound policies around high-stakes machine learning applications such as recidivism prediction, self-driving vehicles, cybersecurity, and military uses of AI. He also has an interest in measuring progress in the field as a whole. His technical projects have included SafeLife, a benchmark environment for reinforcement learning safety; studying the need and role for uncertainty in ethical objectives of powerful optimising systems, and evaluating calibration and overconfidence in large language models. What utterly valuable work. I did not know of his existence til now, but I remember when I first used LetsEncrypt to get a cert for my website. It was so much easier than it had been before, and it was free. And as I have thought of so much lately, developing compassionate, sound policy for the technology we create is so often lacking in our work. https://pde.is/posts/docs/Report-on-Algorithmic-Risk-Assessment-Tools.pdf https://pde.is/posts/docs/Report-on-Algorithmic-Risk-Assessm... I am sorry not to have known of him while he was here, and I am grateful for his work.
- codethief 4y agoI had always thought that LetsEncrypt, PrivacyBadger and HTTPS Everywhere somehow "felt"… similar. And now I learn that the same person had been behind them. What a sad day.
- LtdJorge 4y agoI knew they came from the EFF, but nothing more