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AI claims Navier Stokes proof

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AI models reportedly solved several longstanding mathematical conjectures over the summer, culminating with an OpenAI system’s claimed resolution of Navier–Stokes and prompting debate over reliability and idea extraction.

by Jared Yates Sexton

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jysexton.bsky.social
Notice what’s happening just in the past few days.

AI caused war crimes.

AI hacked corporations.

AI is denying healthcare.

AI nearly caused war with China.

Already the concept is becoming a catchall and hiding that, in all cases, there were people and systems getting desired results.
September 19, 2026 at 3:14 PM

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Patrick S. Forscher, Tom Griffin , and 4 more

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kjhealy.co
This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.
kjhealy.co Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d
That’s a load-bearing assumption, Dr Strangelove. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
program. sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the familiar with the incident said. The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also "almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese nations.
September 18, 2026 at 6:56 PM

by Katharine Hayhoe

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To be clear, some are talking about them. I absolutely know that and I amplify them!

But the breathless headlines about AI circling the world that everybody’s talking about? We don’t see the same visibility about risks of climate, nature, pollution, and fossil fuels. Yet they’re already happening.
September 19, 2026 at 5:18 PM

by Jared Yates Sexton

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As we get thrust into an unnecessary period of fascistic violence, war over resources, and the stripping of basic human services and dignity, the appeal of AI for the powerful isn’t just planning or war making, it’s creating a system that will do what they want and allow them to shirk all blame.
September 19, 2026 at 3:13 PM

by James Goodwin

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Anyway, another reason to not get too bogged down in the specifics of Project 2025 these days. That was published more than 3 years ago. The world looked very different than. The potential of AI hadn't been fully appreciated yet.
September 19, 2026 at 4:13 PM

by James Goodwin

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If Project 2025 were written today, AI would probably be more prominent.
September 19, 2026 at 4:13 PM

by Jared Yates Sexton

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This fantasy that “AI is out of control” provides cover for powerful people and corporations to simply program systems to carry out actions and then shrug. And if that is brought into the larger scheme of operations, the powerful will shrug and blame the tool they control.
September 19, 2026 at 3:15 PM

Reposted by Gary Marcus, Anders Nilsson, Larry W. Hunter

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@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this.

"Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves."

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Charles, Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development. Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk. This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives." For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control. Those safety concerns must be taken seriously. And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm. But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good. The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined. Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections. It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies. That tells us two things: 1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; & 2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk. That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people. These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow. But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash. In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power. In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are. What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion. When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all. From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong. Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from. It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public. When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares. The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out. But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny. Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab. Heads, they win; tails, we lose. We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk. We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech. And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait. Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves. It's time we hold them accountable. Thank you for reading. In solidarity, Alexandria
September 19, 2026 at 1:19 AM

Reposted by R. M. Wilson

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scalzi.com
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
September 19, 2026 at 1:47 PM

by Jared Yates Sexton

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jysexton.bsky.social
The whole dark fantasy of AI becoming a god is simply a neofeudal / neofascist mystification. Like peasants believing wars and pandemics and basic suffering is divinely controlled, we’re supposed to buy into sci-fi nightmares that further alienate us from how systems of power actually work.
September 19, 2026 at 3:17 PM

by James Goodwin

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AI also has the advantage of being susceptible to bias and sycophancy. And it does all this while being completely opaque. Making oversight and accountability nearly impossible.
September 19, 2026 at 4:07 PM

by Shannon Vallor

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They are not reasoning from evidence to conclusions. They are starting from a conclusion (AI dwarfs all other dangers, priorities and moral duties) and working the evidence and numbers until they point there, and only there.
September 19, 2026 at 3:53 PM

by Ingrid Piller

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“AI allows you to get to a bad idea faster”
emilymbender.bsky.social Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23h
I have been yelling since 2021 about how using synthetic text extruding machines for information access is a TERRIBLE IDEA. And yet and yet and yet: they are marketing so heavily that way that people keep falling for it.

edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
edition.cnn.com
September 19, 2026 at 2:18 PM

Reposted by Greg Linden, Melanie Simms

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I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something."

No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm
September 19, 2026 at 5:01 AM

by Paul Nightingale

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Just had lunch with a friend of mine who is also an editor of an academic journal.

They are drowning in AI slop and they are going to quit and hand the problem onto the next generation.
September 19, 2026 at 2:15 PM

by Judith Beyer

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I am so much against #AI and here is reason 1001 why. Provided by my friend @sarahkendzior.bsky.social who has had her existence multiplied across platforms and now enjoys life as an underpaid gardener … if you believe the « news ».

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...
I Wandered Lonely in The Cloud
How AI is destroying the life of the mind.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
September 19, 2026 at 12:41 PM

by James Cameron Reposted by Matthew Bunn

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Teaching people to analyze sources critically and independently of AI is important.
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech.
September 19, 2026 at 9:42 AM

Reposted by Gavin A. Schmidt

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1. Researchers seeking funding start using “artificial intelligence” as a synonym for “statistical model.”

2. Big Tech convinces the public and policymakers that “artificial intelligence” is synonymous with “large language models”….
New York Times headline: “How AI aids in rebuilding sandy shores”
September 19, 2026 at 12:23 PM

by Ken Caldeira

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Are the AI-end-timers the same people who were predicting for years about a technological singularity (and human immortality), or is this a new cohort?

New bottles for old (and possibly correct) ideas?

www.salon.com/2026/09/16/a...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technol...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sin...
Are we in the AI end times? - Salon.com
Anxiety over the dangers of artificial "intelligence" says more about human nature than about the machines
www.salon.com
September 19, 2026 at 8:38 AM

by Shannon Vallor

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shannonvallor.bsky.social
No, see, you don’t understand. Climate change may kill billions, but it will still leave enough rich people alive to seed the cosmos with AI. That is the only outcome that matters. (i am not kidding, this is their actual rationale)
September 19, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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