why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Steinman: Almost no industrial facilities worldwide have basic cybersecurity protection
“Most data moves over industrial networks unencrypted. Most industrial equipment simply receives any instruction sent to it with the proper protocol and just starts executing it. And so this is a huge problem. There's no security on industrial facilities on alm…”
Assertion Supported
Steinman: Chinese cyber actors are pre-positioned inside US critical infrastructure
“There are reports to Congress, open testimony by directors of national intelligence that the Chinese and the Russians and the Iranians and the North Koreans, but especially the Chinese, have been prolific in their efforts in the cyber domain to essentially pre…”
Insight
Steinman: The easiest way to defeat a weapon is on the factory floor
“The easiest way to defeat a weapon system is on the factory floor. And so the defense industrial base is where the fight is happening right now.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Steinman: AI will cause a Cambrian explosion in software vulnerability discovery
“So what it really means is one, the discovery of vulnerabilities in systems is very likely Going to experience this like Cambrian explosion, as people say, right? What took a single person or a group of people, you know, a lot of time, a lot of energy to try a…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Steinman: White House study found under 10,000 Americans work in industrial cybersecurity
“In fact, when I was at the White House, I chartered a study. You have like researchers that work for you there. And we found less than 10,000 Americans that do that.”
Prediction Held up
Steinman: The US will not mandate security clearances for AI engineers
“I think they should. I don't think they will. It's just really hard, right? Like you're gonna go to a private company and say these people have to have clearances.”