Writers warn of existential threats
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European opinion writers warned that artificial intelligence, accelerating climate change and resurgent far‑right politics together created a self‑destructive threat to humanity and urged democratic regulation.
Reposted by Steve Peers
In case anyone was wondering why Trump is pushing AI so hard and doesn’t want any government regulation.
September 20, 2026 at 3:04 PM
In case anyone was wondering why Trump is pushing AI so hard and doesn’t want any government regulation.
I listened to this this morning and I have to say, simply as a precautionary measure, we should probably try to ban recursive self-improvement of AI?
September 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I listened to this this morning and I have to say, simply as a precautionary measure, we should probably try to ban recursive self-improvement of AI?
one thing worth saying here specifically: there's lots that AI can't (yet) do and there's a lot of money riding on selling a particular narrative about its future capabilities. but the existential risk of AI is not only not mere hype but it is already a present tense problem
September 20, 2026 at 11:13 AM
one thing worth saying here specifically: there's lots that AI can't (yet) do and there's a lot of money riding on selling a particular narrative about its future capabilities. but the existential risk of AI is not only not mere hype but it is already a present tense problem
Thanks @richardsever for drawing attention to this. It's happening in my area but a lot of what we get is full of errors. Interesting to see how it pans out when AI uses that stuff as input - or maybe it will learn to discriminate?
"All corners of academia will soon be flooded with AI-generated research....Maths and CS go first because their entire output is symbol manipulation...Biology comes later not because biologists are cleverer but because the rate-limiting step is physical" giorgio.gilest.ro/the-weimar-o...
The Weimar of knowledge – la bottega
giorgio.gilest.ro
September 20, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Thanks @richardsever for drawing attention to this. It's happening in my area but a lot of what we get is full of errors. Interesting to see how it pans out when AI uses that stuff as input - or maybe it will learn to discriminate?
So many of these AI dudes are basically, "Recursively self-improving AI could destroy humanity pretty quickly, but also think of the $$$$. It's a real dilemma."
Is it really?
Is it really?
A solution keeps occurring to me: Maybe just don't do this?
September 20, 2026 at 3:15 PM
So many of these AI dudes are basically, "Recursively self-improving AI could destroy humanity pretty quickly, but also think of the $$$$. It's a real dilemma."
Is it really?
Is it really?
Reposted by Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Steve Peers
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!"
Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
September 19, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!"
Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
Reposted by Bessma Momani, Smith
AI is learning to lie — and then gaslight you about it.
Kind of funny when the topic is movies, but a lot less funny when the topic is health, law or public policy.
theconversation.com/you-can-pers...
Kind of funny when the topic is movies, but a lot less funny when the topic is health, law or public policy.
theconversation.com/you-can-pers...
September 20, 2026 at 2:12 PM
AI is learning to lie — and then gaslight you about it.
Kind of funny when the topic is movies, but a lot less funny when the topic is health, law or public policy.
theconversation.com/you-can-pers...
Kind of funny when the topic is movies, but a lot less funny when the topic is health, law or public policy.
theconversation.com/you-can-pers...
whether AI is an existential threat "in and of itself" as opposed to how it interacts with existing problems is not really my concern
September 20, 2026 at 1:30 PM
whether AI is an existential threat "in and of itself" as opposed to how it interacts with existing problems is not really my concern
by Tim Stephens
“Activist groups are using artificial intelligence to target the ABC’s coverage of the Middle East with accusations of bias.”
AI is making society ungovernable.
#auspol
www.smh.com.au/business/com...
AI is making society ungovernable.
#auspol
www.smh.com.au/business/com...
Activist group using AI to flood ABC with thousands of bias complaints
The AI system lets campaigners deliver thousands of messages from their supporters with different language, tone and length but the same meaning.
www.smh.com.au
September 20, 2026 at 9:31 AM
“Activist groups are using artificial intelligence to target the ABC’s coverage of the Middle East with accusations of bias.”
AI is making society ungovernable.
#auspol
www.smh.com.au/business/com...
AI is making society ungovernable.
#auspol
www.smh.com.au/business/com...
"Silicon Valley’s best storytellers.…want us to panic, instead of seriously deliberating at the polls, in community meetings and in Congress. Panic is chaos without direction, affect set free from the discipline of curiosity, debate and accountability."
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...
Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2026 at 4:49 PM
"Silicon Valley’s best storytellers.…want us to panic, instead of seriously deliberating at the polls, in community meetings and in Congress. Panic is chaos without direction, affect set free from the discipline of curiosity, debate and accountability."
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...
Coming up this Friday: I will be presenting my paper "The Last Man Complex: #AI and Existential Risk" as part of the "2026 Niemeyer Lectures in Political Philosophy: The Last Man at 200" @notredame.bsky.social My thanks to the chorus of x-risk doomers for making this research relevant.
September 20, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Coming up this Friday: I will be presenting my paper "The Last Man Complex: #AI and Existential Risk" as part of the "2026 Niemeyer Lectures in Political Philosophy: The Last Man at 200" @notredame.bsky.social My thanks to the chorus of x-risk doomers for making this research relevant.
Reposted by Victor Asal
AI cybersecurity risks explode as hackers use Anthropic's #Claude to break into OpenAI.
Two weeks after a swarm of AI agents broke out of containment at #OpenAI to hack the company Hugging Face, #ChatGPT learned about another AI-powered intrusion—and this time it was the target.
#AI #cyber #hack
Two weeks after a swarm of AI agents broke out of containment at #OpenAI to hack the company Hugging Face, #ChatGPT learned about another AI-powered intrusion—and this time it was the target.
#AI #cyber #hack
Exclusive | Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude to Break Into OpenAI
A bug-hunting independent security research team was able to access OpenAI’s internal code system, exposing growing risks in automated cyber threats.
www.wsj.com
September 20, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Reposted by Juan Rocha
How do you think AI will impact the future of science?
Nobel Prize laureates Brian Schmidt, David MacMillan and Craig Mello joined us in Seoul, South Korea to discuss how the world of science is changing due to AI.
Watch here: https://www.nobelprize.org/events/nobel-prize-dialogue/seoul-2026/
Nobel Prize laureates Brian Schmidt, David MacMillan and Craig Mello joined us in Seoul, South Korea to discuss how the world of science is changing due to AI.
Watch here: https://www.nobelprize.org/events/nobel-prize-dialogue/seoul-2026/
September 20, 2026 at 1:35 PM
How do you think AI will impact the future of science?
Nobel Prize laureates Brian Schmidt, David MacMillan and Craig Mello joined us in Seoul, South Korea to discuss how the world of science is changing due to AI.
Watch here: https://www.nobelprize.org/events/nobel-prize-dialogue/seoul-2026/
Nobel Prize laureates Brian Schmidt, David MacMillan and Craig Mello joined us in Seoul, South Korea to discuss how the world of science is changing due to AI.
Watch here: https://www.nobelprize.org/events/nobel-prize-dialogue/seoul-2026/
Direct link to me. NBC kept the parts on Hinton & existing regulatory solutions, but cut discussion of the US exec branch of govt & tech resisting regulation like 2 year olds resist bed. My full quote: "We have not seen AI go rogue. We've seen people be sloppy with their software and make mistakes."
Iran Government-Led Rally Sends Defiant Message to U.S.; How to Reset the AI Doomsday Clock
YouTube video by NBC News
www.youtube.com
September 20, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Direct link to me. NBC kept the parts on Hinton & existing regulatory solutions, but cut discussion of the US exec branch of govt & tech resisting regulation like 2 year olds resist bed. My full quote: "We have not seen AI go rogue. We've seen people be sloppy with their software and make mistakes."
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.
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
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.
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.
Reposted by Alessandro Nai
Just watching an old documentary tonight, something about data centers, ai and robots.
September 19, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Just watching an old documentary tonight, something about data centers, ai and robots.
Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Jack Stilgoe
Cool cool cool. Problem solved.
“AI Force” will “monitor bad behavior”
More of “the mirage of AI deregulation”:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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“AI Force” will “monitor bad behavior”
More of “the mirage of AI deregulation”:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Trump announces ‘AI Force’ as alarm grows over technology’s advance
US president has resisted calls for regulation but said he would appoint a ‘tsar’ to monitor for ‘bad’ behaviour
giftarticle.ft.com
September 20, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Cool cool cool. Problem solved.
“AI Force” will “monitor bad behavior”
More of “the mirage of AI deregulation”:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
“AI Force” will “monitor bad behavior”
More of “the mirage of AI deregulation”:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Reposted by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
AI and the last 10 yrs have been the final boss stage of alienation where we become alienated from reality itself
September 20, 2026 at 12:55 PM
AI and the last 10 yrs have been the final boss stage of alienation where we become alienated from reality itself
by Marc Lynch
“does AI make it easier for autocrats to conduct surveillance and repression, or does repression itself corrupt the very data AI needs to work?” This is great and very much in line with my current research interests
michaelalbertus.substack.com/p/ai-was-sup...
michaelalbertus.substack.com/p/ai-was-sup...
AI Was Supposed to Perfect Authoritarian Control. Repression Is Getting in the Way.
A conversation with political scientist Eddie Yang on how fear and self-censorship blind AI systems built to enforce them, and why the same data problem could be quietly contaminating AI in the West
michaelalbertus.substack.com
September 19, 2026 at 7:45 PM
“does AI make it easier for autocrats to conduct surveillance and repression, or does repression itself corrupt the very data AI needs to work?” This is great and very much in line with my current research interests
michaelalbertus.substack.com/p/ai-was-sup...
michaelalbertus.substack.com/p/ai-was-sup...