Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff

Re:Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 s... by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:31PM (#35730599)

The AI doesn't need to be the end-all-be-all of defining permissions. But it's not hard to imagine a couple of areas where AI could help:

1. Letting users enter desired permissions setting in a natural language, and then the AI recommending checkbox settings, and, importantly, explaining these settings.

2. Useful as a monitoring/alerting system for DLP. Most DLP systems already use some sort of machine learning for identifying sensitive docs.

3. Easily running "test scenarios" to show to admins who can and can't get access to particular docs.

There is a huge chasm between "AI owns all my permission settings" to "AI can make it easier and more robust for me to understand what my permission settings should be."

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Re:Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 s... by oxfordmale on Thursday April 27, 2023 @09:09PM (#35736424)

There is a reason permissions are not defined in natural language. Language is imprecise and that is why security is so hard to get right

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