Nathan Hamiel
@nhamiel.bsky.social
Senior Director of Research. Black Hat Review Board Member (AI, ML, and DS track lead) and International public speaker. I focus on emerging technologies and risks at the intersection of humanity and tech. Hype Critic. My writing: https://perilous.tech
First time I’ve designed an enamel pin. Terrible picture, but you get the idea. See you at Black Hat USA!
July 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
First time I’ve designed an enamel pin. Terrible picture, but you get the idea. See you at Black Hat USA!
It's going to be busy at both the #AISummit and #BlackHatUSA. It would be great to catch up with everyone. In addition to the briefings, I'm also hosting the AI Track Meetup and participating in the Review Board meet and greet. Come by and say hi. See you next week!
July 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It's going to be busy at both the #AISummit and #BlackHatUSA. It would be great to catch up with everyone. In addition to the briefings, I'm also hosting the AI Track Meetup and participating in the Review Board meet and greet. Come by and say hi. See you next week!
I read this book back in 2020, and it’s only become more relevant. So many people make simple data mistakes and draw the wrong conclusions based on issues covered in this book.
July 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I read this book back in 2020, and it’s only become more relevant. So many people make simple data mistakes and draw the wrong conclusions based on issues covered in this book.
The Black Hat USA schedule is live. Looking forward to seeing everyone soon.
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July 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The Black Hat USA schedule is live. Looking forward to seeing everyone soon.
blackhat.com/us-25/briefi...
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Flooding the zone with truth is not an effective defense against flooding the zone with shit. It’s like trying to flood the zone with broccoli at an all-you-can-eat ice cream buffet, where the walls, tables, and chairs are also ice cream.
June 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Flooding the zone with truth is not an effective defense against flooding the zone with shit. It’s like trying to flood the zone with broccoli at an all-you-can-eat ice cream buffet, where the walls, tables, and chairs are also ice cream.
It's strange to consider LLMs being so awesome that we need to share them with the cosmos as if they are something that advanced alien tech bros need to check out.
June 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It's strange to consider LLMs being so awesome that we need to share them with the cosmos as if they are something that advanced alien tech bros need to check out.
We need to stop huffing marketing hype as though it's insight. All it takes is one simple question: if this is true, then where is GPT-5? Claims without proof and vibes above all, we've entered The Shitularity.
June 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
We need to stop huffing marketing hype as though it's insight. All it takes is one simple question: if this is true, then where is GPT-5? Claims without proof and vibes above all, we've entered The Shitularity.
What happens when errors and hallucinations become facts, facts that may be impossible to dispute or lurk in the background unseen and uncorrected? Especially when new, more capable AI systems learn from these new "facts."
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June 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What happens when errors and hallucinations become facts, facts that may be impossible to dispute or lurk in the background unseen and uncorrected? Especially when new, more capable AI systems learn from these new "facts."
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Of course it was, because that's just what we do now. The fact that this has become normalized should be terrifying to everyone.
May 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Of course it was, because that's just what we do now. The fact that this has become normalized should be terrifying to everyone.
I’m convinced that YouTube shorts are basically cognitive bath salts, a fast track to brain rot. Their popularity speaks to a direction in our culture and our acceptance of the slopification of everything.
May 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I’m convinced that YouTube shorts are basically cognitive bath salts, a fast track to brain rot. Their popularity speaks to a direction in our culture and our acceptance of the slopification of everything.
Gotta love Slack’s UI that keeps presenting this to me and no matter how many times I click the “Not now” it stays on the screen. Seriously, I don’t need a summary of “Sounds good” Hounding users to use AI features they don’t want or need is the new normal.
May 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Gotta love Slack’s UI that keeps presenting this to me and no matter how many times I click the “Not now” it stays on the screen. Seriously, I don’t need a summary of “Sounds good” Hounding users to use AI features they don’t want or need is the new normal.
Join @tmlxs.bsky.social and me at #BlackHatUSA this year for Hack to the Future. This isn't a prompt injection talk. This is about the hidden dangers of deploying these tools in your environments and the potentially devastating vulnerabilities that can result. www.blackhat.com/us-25/briefi...
May 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Join @tmlxs.bsky.social and me at #BlackHatUSA this year for Hack to the Future. This isn't a prompt injection talk. This is about the hidden dangers of deploying these tools in your environments and the potentially devastating vulnerabilities that can result. www.blackhat.com/us-25/briefi...
Trying to get your case dismissed by making a claim that your bot/product has First Amendment rights is an odd flex, and the way they had to word it to attempt to make legal sense blames the victim. Thankfully, the case wasn’t dismissed. scholarblogs.emory.edu/proflawrence...
May 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Trying to get your case dismissed by making a claim that your bot/product has First Amendment rights is an odd flex, and the way they had to word it to attempt to make legal sense blames the victim. Thankfully, the case wasn’t dismissed. scholarblogs.emory.edu/proflawrence...
I'll be speaking at the AI Summit on August 5th. Looking forward to a great conversation.
May 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I'll be speaking at the AI Summit on August 5th. Looking forward to a great conversation.
Next time someone asks me if I know what hustling looks like, I'm gonna show them this. If you can play Denny's, you can play anywhere 😆
May 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Next time someone asks me if I know what hustling looks like, I'm gonna show them this. If you can play Denny's, you can play anywhere 😆
The next battleground is in sight, and things are going to move fast. Half-baked tech pitched as transformational will be quickly adopted and thrown in front of children without any validation, but the demos will be amazing!
May 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The next battleground is in sight, and things are going to move fast. Half-baked tech pitched as transformational will be quickly adopted and thrown in front of children without any validation, but the demos will be amazing!
Nonsense. The real AI risk isn't superintelligence, it's superincompetence. A sentient super AI deciding to wipe out humans because they are pesky is microscopic compared to some idiot hooking an LLM up to a safety-critical system because their boss tells them to use AI for everything.
May 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Nonsense. The real AI risk isn't superintelligence, it's superincompetence. A sentient super AI deciding to wipe out humans because they are pesky is microscopic compared to some idiot hooking an LLM up to a safety-critical system because their boss tells them to use AI for everything.
It’s a dystopian ink kind of day.
May 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It’s a dystopian ink kind of day.
It's surreal to see many of the things I've been warning about over the past couple of years, starting to come to fruition, where ever-present surveillance devices are pitched as your "friends" and university education is about nothing more than vibes.
May 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It's surreal to see many of the things I've been warning about over the past couple of years, starting to come to fruition, where ever-present surveillance devices are pitched as your "friends" and university education is about nothing more than vibes.
Everybody thinks AI will replace everyone else's jobs except their own. We continue to make the mistake of observing the nuance in our own jobs and assuming none in others.
May 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Everybody thinks AI will replace everyone else's jobs except their own. We continue to make the mistake of observing the nuance in our own jobs and assuming none in others.
Ah, the last day rush to respond to the CFP.
April 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Ah, the last day rush to respond to the CFP.
