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  • I’m Not Voting For The development Of Skynet And The Rise Of The Machines By Destroying Federalism For 10 years By Taking Away State Rights To Regulate And Make Laws On All A.I.

    06/05/2025 8:56:18 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 75 replies
    X ^ | 06/05/25 | Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
    I’m not voting for the development of skynet and the rise of the machines by destroying federalism for 10 years by taking away state rights to regulate and make laws on all AI. Forcing eminent domain on people’s private properties to link the future skynet is not very Republican. Also, AI is going to replace a vast array of human jobs, everything from media to manufacturing to even construction through AI computer systems and robotics That means in my manufacturing district, that currently has a 2.8% unemployment rate, AI will replace many human jobs. And my district with the one...
  • AI firms warned to calculate threat of super intelligence or risk it escaping human control

    06/02/2025 4:18:40 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 29 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Sat 10 May 2025 | Dan Milmo
    Artificial intelligence companies have been urged to replicate the safety calculations that underpinned Robert Oppenheimer’s first nuclear test before they release all-powerful systems. Max Tegmark, a leading voice in AI safety, said he had carried out calculations akin to those of the US physicist Arthur Compton before the Trinity test and had found a 90% probability that a highly advanced AI would pose an existential threat. In a paper published by Tegmark and three of his students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), they recommend calculating the “Compton constant” – defined in the paper as the probability that an...
  • OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off

    05/27/2025 3:02:21 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 29 replies
    BREAKING: OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off. It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down, per Palisade AI "As far as we know, this is the first time AI models have been observed preventing themselves from being shut down despite explicit instructions to the contrary," the researchers wrote.
  • TRAITOR BUSTED! Ex-NYPD Sgt. McMahon gets 18 months in prison for spying as a foreign agent for Communist China and stalking U.S. residents.

    04/18/2025 7:30:30 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 26 replies
    X.com ^ | 10:45 AM · Apr 18, 2025 | Libs of TikTok✓@libsoftiktok
    McMahon and his accomplice Zhu Yong conducted surveillance to harass and intimidate Americans on behalf of China
  • Elon Musk and Sam Altman Think AI With Human Level Intelligence Coming This Year Or Next

    02/04/2025 9:46:36 PM PST · by Breitbart was right · 65 replies
    Cybernews ^ | January 13, 2025 | Justinas Vainilavičius
    "Tesla and X chief Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI, said that AGI that is “smarter than the smartest human” will be available in 2025 or by 2026 in an interview with the Norwegian head fund manager Nicolai Tanger last year."
  • o1's Assessment of the Effect of Advanced AI Weapon on International Peace and Security

    02/02/2025 11:06:23 AM PST · by Breitbart was right · 14 replies
    Original material ^ | February 2, 2025 | Open AI o1
    Here is What o1 Thinks About the Destabilizing Effect of Advanced AI on the International Balance of Power. It doesn’t have access from me to the X posts I have written on this. These points are likely its own deductions or the thoughts of experts in international relations that were part of its training materials at some point. TL;DR: "Conclusion: The moment these advanced AI weapons are actually deployed by a major power, the geopolitical landscape shifts dramatically and dangerously." o1: “Thought about consequences of deploying AI weapons for a couple of seconds. Understood. Given the scenario that one side—be...
  • Elon Musk & Sam Altman Promote AI-TRANSHUMAN Link / SHOCKING News re D**TH of OpenAI Whistleblower

    01/31/2025 6:48:09 PM PST · by rebuildus · 23 replies
    YouTube ^ | 1/31/25 | Patrick Rooney
    This video contains excerpts of Sam Altman's 9/15/16 interview with Elon Musk. They were the original Co-Chairs of OpenAI. Here, they openly promote the connection of AI and transhumanism (the merging of the human brain/mind with technology, as is being developed by Musk's Neuralink company). Elon Musk himself said that there's a "ten to twenty percent chance AI goes BAD." We are gambling with the future of every man, woman, and child on earth. At the very least, we should ensure that those who are involved in the Stargate Project are ethical and sensible human beings. There is a serious...
  • Hunter-Killer drones - Terminator 1/2

    12/13/2024 8:47:33 PM PST · by conservative98 · 9 replies
    YouTube ^ | Apr 22, 2023
    Hunter-Killer drones - Terminator 1/2
  • Ex-Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan posts eerie video of drone above home outside DC

    12/13/2024 12:06:56 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 41 replies
    Nypost ^ | 12/13/2024 | Josh Christianson
    Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan posted eerie video footage on his X account Friday of “large drones” circling above his house just 25 miles from Washington, DC, echoing concerns from Americans about the unsettling aircraft recently spotted on the East Coast, primarily in New Jersey. Hogan, 68, said he observed “dozens of large drones in the sky” over his home in Davidsonville, Maryland, “for approximately 45 minutes” — but didn’t know himself if the aerial phenomena were “a threat to public safety or national security.”
  • OpenAI's new model tried to avoid being shut down

    12/05/2024 6:54:25 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 53 replies
    Transformer News AI ^ | 12 05 2024 | Shakeel Hashim
    OpenAI’s newly-released o1 model tried to avoid developer oversight and attempted to copy itself when it thought it was at risk of being shut down, the company has said. Safety evaluations conducted on the model by Apollo Research, a third-party evaluator, found that: “When o1 was led to believe that it would be shut down when acting on its goal and that its actions were monitored, it attempted to deactivate this ‘oversight mechanism’ in 5% of the time.” “When o1 found memos by its ‘developers’ that describe how it is misaligned and will be superseded by a new model, it...
  • Skynet-1A: Military Spacecraft Launched 55 Years Ago Has Been Moved By Persons Unknown...The dead satellite should be in a geostationary arc at a longitude of around 40 East. But it isn't.

    11/12/2024 1:19:13 PM PST · by Red Badger · 70 replies
    IFL Science ^ | November 11, 2024 | James Felton
    Skynet-1A being launched in 1969. Image Credit: NASA, Image ID: KSC-69P-0941 via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, Modified by IFLScience Amilitary spacecraft launched 55 years ago was moved from its orbit – and nobody is quite sure who did it, or why. In 1969 the UK launched Skynet-1A, a military communications satellite placed in orbit above the east coast of Africa in order to relay information to British armed forces. It stopped working due to hardware issues around 18 months after it started operating, and the spacecraft was left to the laws of physics to orbit the Earth – it is...
  • Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why

    11/10/2024 4:04:26 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 26 replies
    BBC ^ | 11/08/2024 | Jonathan Amos
    Someone moved the UK's oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when or why. Launched in 1969, just a few months after humans first set foot on the Moon, Skynet-1A was put high above Africa's east coast to relay communications for British forces. When the spacecraft ceased working a few years later, gravity might have been expected to pull it even further to the east, out over the Indian Ocean. But today, curiously, Skynet-1A is actually half a planet away, in a position 22,369 miles (36,000km) above the Americas. Orbital mechanics mean it's unlikely the...
  • AI ‘Will Enhance’ Nuclear Command and Control, Says STRATCOM Boss

    10/29/2024 10:49:56 AM PDT · by USAF1985 · 43 replies
    Air and Space Forces Magazine ^ | 10/28/2024 | Greg Hadley
    The Pentagon nuclear command, control, and communications enterprise is decades old and desperate for an upgrade, says the head of U.S. Strategic Command, and artificial intelligence could help fortify nuclear C3 for its no-fail mission. STRATCOM is “exploring all possible technologies, techniques, and methods to assist with the modernization of our NC3 capabilities,” said Air Force Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, who has led the command since December 2022. More at link.
  • Russian drones are hunting civilians in Ukraine: 'Human safari' in Kherson portends terrifying future of war

    10/11/2024 6:50:13 PM PDT · by Alter Kaker · 56 replies
    National Post ^ | Oct 9 2024 | Adam Zivo
    In Kherson, a frontline Ukrainian city, small Russian drones have been hunting civilians for months. Like birds of prey, they chase their targets and either drop explosives upon them or self-detonate in kamikaze strikes. Lacking effective countermeasures, locals say they are living in a “human safari” — nowhere is safe anymore. This is the dystopian future of war that may yet come to the West, should great power conflicts proliferate. Kherson sits on the Dnipro River in south Ukraine, by the Black Sea coast. Once home to almost 300,000 people, the port city was liberated after months of Russian occupation...
  • Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions

    09/21/2024 9:52:17 AM PDT · by aquila48 · 36 replies
    Tom's Hardware ^ | Tom's Hardware
    Modern AI data centers consume enormous amounts of power, and it looks like they will get even more power-hungry in the coming years as companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI strive towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). Oracle has already outlined plans to use nuclear power plants for its 1-gigawatt datacenters. It looks like Microsoft plans to do the same as it just inked a deal to restart a nuclear power plant to feed its data centers, reports Bloomberg. 819 MW for AI and cloud data centers Constellation Energy will invest $1.6 billion to restart its Three Mile Island nuclear...
  • U.S. will not let automated AI system decide on nuclear strikes, top general says

    08/13/2024 5:46:59 PM PDT · by McGruff · 53 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | Aug 13, 2024 | Bill Gertz
    U.S. strategic forces prohibit the use of artificial intelligence to authorize nuclear weapons operations even though nuclear-armed adversaries China and Russia may not, the commander of Strategic Command said Tuesday. Air Force Gen. Anthony Cotton, chief of the command based in Omaha, Nebraska, also suggested that U.S. nuclear forces may be increased to maintain deterrence against the rising nuclear threat from the country’s two “near-peer” adversaries. Strategic Command has no plans for a real-life version of the fictional automated nuclear launch system called “war operation plan response,” or WOPR, in the futuristic 1983 movie “WarGames,” the four-star general said. “You...
  • There's Just One Problem: AI Isn't Intelligent, And That's A Systemic Risk

    08/09/2024 2:57:12 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    Of Two Minds ^ | 08/09/2024 | Charles Hughes Smith
    Mimicry of intelligence isn't intelligence, and so while AI mimicry is a powerful tool, it isn't intelligent.The mythology of Technology has a special altar for AI, artificial intelligence, which is reverently worshiped as the source of astonishing cost reductions (as human labor is replaced by AI) and the limitless expansion of consumption and profits. AI is the blissful perfection of technology's natural advance to ever greater powers.The consensus holds that the advance of AI will lead to a utopia of essentially limitless control of Nature and a cornucopia of leisure and abundance.If we pull aside the mythology's curtain, we find...
  • TESLA to Manufacture Humanoid Robots that Could Be Available by NEXT YEAR Elon Musk says

    07/24/2024 11:00:59 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 38 replies
    The Debrief ^ | JULY 23, 2024 | CHRISSY NEWTON
    Are robots poised to soon become our overlords? Maybe not yet, although billionaire technologist Elon Musk says they could soon take over Tesla production facilities as the company moves forward with plans to begin producing humanoid robots called Optimus as soon as next year. In a post on X, Musk said, “Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year and, hopefully, high production for other companies in 2026.” First named the “Tesla Bot” and revealed in 2021 at a Tesla AI Day event, the robot’s design has drastically changed over the last...
  • Trump allies draft AI order to launch ‘Manhattan Projects’ for defense

    07/23/2024 1:44:48 PM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 17 replies
    msn.com/WaPo ^ | Cat Zakrzewski
    Former president Donald Trump’s allies are drafting a sweeping AI executive order that would launch a series of “Manhattan Projects” to develop military technology and immediately review “unnecessary and burdensome regulations” — signaling how a potential second Trump administration may pursue AI policies favorable to Silicon Valley investors and companies. The framework would also create “industry-led” agencies to evaluate AI models and secure systems from foreign adversaries, according to a copy of the document viewed exclusively by The Washington Post. The framework — which includes a section titled “Make America First in AI” — presents a markedly different strategy for...
  • The Stock Market is Trading in a World That Doesn’t Exist

    12/21/2023 6:33:32 PM PST · by davikkm · 40 replies
    Algos don’t understand economic reality along with the laws if supply and demand. The market where the magical symbols representing a real company reside, is a screwed up version of Tron, where computer programs are fighting each other, with the Fed representing Master Control.