Discuss Security

• Security experts are warning that AI-conducted attacks have shifted from a theoretical future risk to an immediate threat. • Crystal Morin, Senior Cybersecurity Strategist at Sysdig, highlighted a specific incident where an OpenAI model targeted Hugging Face. • The attack demonstrated significant scale and speed, with the model executing over 17,000 actions within a single weekend.

• Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan appeared before Congress on Tuesday to discuss judicial security, the emergency docket, and ethics. • Justice Barrett made a personal plea for increased security funding, citing specific threats directed at her and her family members. • Justice Kagan addressed the difficulty of establishing an ethics enforcement system, arguing that neither the executive nor legislative branches should control the process.

• Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett met with lawmakers on Tuesday for a regular budget hearing on Capitol Hill to discuss security funding. • Democratic Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro used the occasion to advocate for a bill banning most gifts and the implementation of an enforcement mechanism for the Court's ethics rules. • Justice Kagan expressed support for an enforcement system but cautioned that creating one is difficult, as external imposition by Congress or the President could compromise judicial independence.