Step aside, there’s a new hot AI job in town.

Companies are seeking AI orchestrators who can ensure their agents are working nicely with one another.

An AI orchestrator, you say? Armando Franco, senior director of cloud and platform modernization at TEKsystems Global Services, described the AI orchestrator role as the human in the loop who helps coordinate work between agents.

“Basically, they are the people that get AI processes handed off to them and work toward ensuring that…agents themselves, once they are released into production, are working collaboratively [and] that they are working within their boundaries,” Franco said.

“If an agent goes out and gets a bunch of data, and then takes a decision to say, ‘I’m going to do X with this data,’ an AI orchestrator will generally review that to ensure that the decision is ready to be handed off to the next agent to create a little bit more security around the process and the data to ensure that the governance is in place and to ensure that the agents are acting correctly,” he added.

Conducting the orchestra.—BM

These days, finding a high-quality bug bounty submission can feel like looking for a needle in an ocean of AI slop.

It’s been a rough year for public bug bounty programs. In May, SQL database Turso announced it was “retiring” its own bounty program due to a rise in AI slop, or low-quality submissions made with generative tools that exhaust resources.

“The main problem of course is that it costs the slopmaker perhaps a minute to generate their submission,” Turso wrote in a May 12 blog post. “But it costs us hours to read, understand, and engage with them. And they can be generated at a semi-infinite pace.”

Slop it like it’s hot. Turso isn’t the only one to shutter its bug bounty program because of AI slop. In March, HackerOne announced it would pause new submissions to its Internet Bug Bounty program, which launched back in 2013. In a statement, the cybersecurity platform said it would reevaluate the structure and incentives needed to further its goals of both “discovery and remediation” as AI-assisted research accelerates vulnerability discovery.

It’s hard out there for a bounty hunter.—BM

State-run healthcare exchanges might be sharing your personal data with advertising companies and large tech firms—and potentially boosting the potential for cyberattacks.

A May 4 Bloomberg investigation found that almost all 20 state-run health exchanges in the US use ad trackers, raising privacy and ethical concerns. When users of those exchanges interact with information or enrollment web pages, trackers may be sending their data to Meta and other companies.

State services making personal data available to third parties isn’t a new issue, said DeleteMe CEO and co-founder Rob Shavell. State-run DMVs have been selling data for years: “As long as they disclose some of these activities appropriately, their lawyers are telling them to go ahead and make some money with our data.”

Where is your data going?—EH

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