AI + Cybersecurity + Charities

1637 Descartes “No.” 1666 Leibniz “Yes. Calculemus.” 1950 Turing Change the question. 1997 Deep Blue Beats Kasparov. 2017 Transformers “Attention is all you need.” 2022 ChatGPT 100M users in 60 days.

How It Works

The internet.
Computer chips.
A new way to read.
L
LARGE
Read everything humans wrote.
L
LANGUAGE
Words in. Words out.
M
MODEL
A pattern of word to word.

It’s like a student who spent ten thousand years in the library.

Read every book.

Never once left the room.

Every essay she wrote got marked by a human reader — that’s how she learned what a good answer looks like.

She can recite anything. She’s never verified a thing with her own eyes.

She never goes to the shelf.

Ask her a question, and she doesn’t walk to a book. She rebuilds the answer from everything she’s ever read — word by word, in the moment.

Usually she’s right. The pattern holds.

Sometimes she fills a gap with something that sounds right and isn’t.

She can’t tell the difference. Neither can you.

Hallucination.

When she fills the gap with something that isn’t true.

And she says it with the same confidence as everything else.

K
Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

Hallucination is all LLMs do.

…dream machines.

…we direct their dreams with prompts.

…looks like a bug, but it’s just the LLM doing what it always does.

8:42 PM · Dec 8, 2023

Three stories.

Someone else. Your data. Yourself.

Arup

Hong Kong · Feb 2024

00:00
mooZ — Quarterly Finance Review
David Thompson
CFO
Deepfake
Maria Santos
Finance Director
Deepfake
James Liu
Regional Lead
Deepfake
Alex Park
Finance Clerk
Only Real Person

$25.6 million.

15 wire transfers. One video call.

Crisis Text Line

US nonprofit · 2013

Crisis Text Line Loris.ai enters Data handoff Exposed. Jan 2022 · Politico

Mata v. Avianca

S.D.N.Y. · 2023

ChatGPT Research Searching…
Varghese v. China Southern AirlinesFABRICATED
Shaboon v. EgyptairFABRICATED
Petersen v. Iran AirFABRICATED
Martinez v. Delta AirlinesFABRICATED
Estate of Durden v. KLMFABRICATED
Miller v. United AirlinesFABRICATED

Fined $5,000.

Ordered to apologize to every judge named.

Most AI tools are one prompt on top of a model.

Same engines. Different hats.

Good prompts have five parts.

Role · Objective · Limits · Examples · Steps.

R Role “You’re a dad who can cook a bit.”
O Objective “Plan dinner for 3 kids tonight, ages 5 to 12.”
L Limits “Budget $20, 30 minutes max, normal fridge stuff.”
E Examples “Mac and cheese always works. The 5-year-old won’t eat greens.”
S Steps “Recipe → grocery list if needed → time estimate.”

You don’t need all five every time. Start with Role + Objective. Add the rest as you go.

Now swap the kitchen for your office.

R Role “You’re a grant writer for a small rural charity.”
O Objective “Draft a 500-word letter of intent for the Trillium Foundation.”
L Limits “Annual budget under $200K, first-time applicant, rural food bank.”
E Examples “Strongest program: weekend backpack program serving 120 kids.”
S Steps “Need statement → program description → budget summary → the ask.”

You don’t need all five every time. Start with Role + Objective. Add the rest as you go.

Try it. Keep humans in the loop.

AI drafts. You decide.

Your name goes on it.
You read it first.

Thank you.