Summit likely leaves AI unresolved
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Commentators cautioned against exaggerated AI doomsday claims while noting U.S. and China rivalry and the upcoming Trump-Xi meeting would likely leave AI regulation unresolved.
Keep your expectations low for this week’s visit of XI to the United States when it comes to AI regulation.
But be aware of how high are the stakes for humanity.
Here's what you should know. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/xi-and-the-dilemma-of-ai
But be aware of how high are the stakes for humanity.
Here's what you should know. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/xi-and-the-dilemma-of-ai
September 22, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Keep your expectations low for this week’s visit of XI to the United States when it comes to AI regulation.
But be aware of how high are the stakes for humanity.
Here's what you should know. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/xi-and-the-dilemma-of-ai
But be aware of how high are the stakes for humanity.
Here's what you should know. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/xi-and-the-dilemma-of-ai
Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Markus W. Gehring
Trump: "The very same people who said we'll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming -- a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling, not warming -- these are the same people that are now saying AI is going to kill us all, that robots are going to attack us."
September 22, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Trump: "The very same people who said we'll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming -- a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling, not warming -- these are the same people that are now saying AI is going to kill us all, that robots are going to attack us."
Very encouraged to see so many countries coming together to call for mandatory pre-deployment testing & independent evaluation; global coordination on common standards; the creation of an intergovernmental organization; and other critical actions to mitigate the major risks of frontier AI.
A Call for Control of Frontier AI Models - Presidentti
September 2026 Artificial intelligence is an extremely powerful technology. It has potential to improve lives, advance science and strengthen our economies. At the same time, the rapid development of ...
www.presidentti.fi
September 21, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Very encouraged to see so many countries coming together to call for mandatory pre-deployment testing & independent evaluation; global coordination on common standards; the creation of an intergovernmental organization; and other critical actions to mitigate the major risks of frontier AI.
www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go... what it says on the package
Machine god metaphors eat your brain
There are other ways of thinking about AI
www.programmablemutter.com
September 22, 2026 at 3:05 PM
www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go... what it says on the package
Some US special ops "intelligence" analyst used a crappy chatbot (likely produced by Palantir, given how they luuuuuuuv that crappy company) that nearly started a war with China by hallucinating shit:
edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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 22, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Some US special ops "intelligence" analyst used a crappy chatbot (likely produced by Palantir, given how they luuuuuuuv that crappy company) that nearly started a war with China by hallucinating shit:
edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
(Also, what exactly *is* the supposed mechanism for an AI apocalypse? Is it that they hack into the nuclear launch codes, or something? I can tell you what are the many varied mechanisms by which climate change, and its intersections with society, will produce injury, but…)
September 22, 2026 at 3:42 PM
(Also, what exactly *is* the supposed mechanism for an AI apocalypse? Is it that they hack into the nuclear launch codes, or something? I can tell you what are the many varied mechanisms by which climate change, and its intersections with society, will produce injury, but…)
Reposted by Steve Peers
Use of AI to plan violent criminal activities will soon be commonplace. Here's another example: British Columbia sued OpenAI, saying a mass shooting at a school in BC could have been prevented if the company had warned local law enforcement that the shooter had used ChatGPT to plan the massacre.
British Columbia sues OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge school shooting
British Columbia sued OpenAI in California on Monday, saying a mass shooting at a school in the province could have been prevented if the company had warned local law enforcement that the shooter ha...
www.reuters.com
September 22, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Use of AI to plan violent criminal activities will soon be commonplace. Here's another example: British Columbia sued OpenAI, saying a mass shooting at a school in BC could have been prevented if the company had warned local law enforcement that the shooter had used ChatGPT to plan the massacre.
by Janet Murray
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... Excellent technical and ideological demystification of the sloppy development processes that encourage cheating and hacking by AI agents .
Dreaming Against the Machine
Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Weekly · What might a good future look like?
Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. Adam B...
podcasts.apple.com
September 22, 2026 at 2:19 PM
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... Excellent technical and ideological demystification of the sloppy development processes that encourage cheating and hacking by AI agents .
This is a really good and sober assessment of "sexy apocalypse" doomer nonsense.
So @dwillner.bsky.social & I took some of our discussion thread from Bluesky last week regarding the "sexy apocalypse" predictions from the EA-aligned "AI Safety" folks, and wrote an article from the perspective (Dave's) of those who do *real* risk mitigation work. The apocalypse will not be sexy.
The Apocalypse Will Not Be Sexy
When we picture the end of the world, the first thing that springs to mind is typically the cinematic version of "things going wrong." We picture the musical score rising...
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/21/the-apocalypse-will-not-be-sexy/
When we picture the end of the world, the first thing that springs to mind is typically the cinematic version of "things going wrong." We picture the musical score rising...
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/21/the-apocalypse-will-not-be-sexy/
September 21, 2026 at 5:06 PM
This is a really good and sober assessment of "sexy apocalypse" doomer nonsense.
The issue with AI was never that the average wage of the employed might go down. On the contrary, as productivity increases some of that increase will be captured by the employed labor.
September 22, 2026 at 1:46 PM
The issue with AI was never that the average wage of the employed might go down. On the contrary, as productivity increases some of that increase will be captured by the employed labor.
An apocalyptic worldview – blending racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling – circulated inside the elite, founder-linked networks shaping Silicon Valley (and the AI industry) today.
@nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
@nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite
The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles
bylinetimes.com
September 22, 2026 at 9:49 AM
An apocalyptic worldview – blending racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling – circulated inside the elite, founder-linked networks shaping Silicon Valley (and the AI industry) today.
@nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
@nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
by Andrew Yool
Hasn't someone done the obvious thing yet and taught the #AI 🤖 to play noughts and crosses, followed up with some iterative rounds of Global Thermonuclear War? I mean it worked for Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy.
#WarGames
#WarGames
AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.
arstechnica.com
September 22, 2026 at 1:15 PM
I've started seeing an anti-AI "Fintech expert" showing up regularly in my LinkedIn feed, usually shared by anti-AI people. The posts sounded like slop, so I checked, and yep, you guessed it.
One of the things about people who don't use AI is that they have no idea what AI sounds like.
One of the things about people who don't use AI is that they have no idea what AI sounds like.
September 22, 2026 at 12:44 PM
I've started seeing an anti-AI "Fintech expert" showing up regularly in my LinkedIn feed, usually shared by anti-AI people. The posts sounded like slop, so I checked, and yep, you guessed it.
One of the things about people who don't use AI is that they have no idea what AI sounds like.
One of the things about people who don't use AI is that they have no idea what AI sounds like.
Why I Changed My Mind About AI Risk
open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
Why I Changed My Mind About AI Risk
On accelerationists and doomers.
open.substack.com
September 21, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Why I Changed My Mind About AI Risk
open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
by Robin Geiß
🌐 What can cyberspace teach us about AI in the military domain?
UNIDIR’s new publication examines how lessons from ICT security norms could inform discussions on military AI, from transparency and incident response to capacity-building.
🔗 Learn more: unidir.org/Cyber-to-AI
UNIDIR’s new publication examines how lessons from ICT security norms could inform discussions on military AI, from transparency and incident response to capacity-building.
🔗 Learn more: unidir.org/Cyber-to-AI
September 22, 2026 at 8:46 AM
🌐 What can cyberspace teach us about AI in the military domain?
UNIDIR’s new publication examines how lessons from ICT security norms could inform discussions on military AI, from transparency and incident response to capacity-building.
🔗 Learn more: unidir.org/Cyber-to-AI
UNIDIR’s new publication examines how lessons from ICT security norms could inform discussions on military AI, from transparency and incident response to capacity-building.
🔗 Learn more: unidir.org/Cyber-to-AI
Reposted by Hilary J. Allen
From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype:
www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
www.technologyreview.com
September 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM
From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype:
www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
101 antitrust initiatives on generative AI by antitrust agencies, Feb 2023 to July 2026.
➝ 2023: United States 7, Europe 7.
➝ 2026 (ongoing): Europe 15, United States 1.
Every enforcement action in the database since November 2025 is European.
➝ 2023: United States 7, Europe 7.
➝ 2026 (ongoing): Europe 15, United States 1.
Every enforcement action in the database since November 2025 is European.
A Database of Antitrust Initiatives Targeting Generative AI - Network Law Review
Antitrust agencies are increasingly interested in generative AI. This can be good news. As Sandy Pentland and I wrote last year (here), the competitive dynamics in this space can be supported by a careful antitrust agenda. While the AI Act should be improved if the EU wants innovation to flourish (see this article), enforcement actions […]
www.networklawreview.org
September 22, 2026 at 12:02 PM
101 antitrust initiatives on generative AI by antitrust agencies, Feb 2023 to July 2026.
➝ 2023: United States 7, Europe 7.
➝ 2026 (ongoing): Europe 15, United States 1.
Every enforcement action in the database since November 2025 is European.
➝ 2023: United States 7, Europe 7.
➝ 2026 (ongoing): Europe 15, United States 1.
Every enforcement action in the database since November 2025 is European.
by Ian Bremmer
ai dialogue ≠ ai slowdown ≠ ai collaboration
but notable that bessent is more open to ai talks with the chinese than trump is.
but notable that bessent is more open to ai talks with the chinese than trump is.
September 21, 2026 at 7:21 PM
ai dialogue ≠ ai slowdown ≠ ai collaboration
but notable that bessent is more open to ai talks with the chinese than trump is.
but notable that bessent is more open to ai talks with the chinese than trump is.
Look for choices that still work when the future surprises you.
Economists call that robustness.
Seems useful for picking members for Trump’s AI commission.
Economists call that robustness.
Seems useful for picking members for Trump’s AI commission.
September 21, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Look for choices that still work when the future surprises you.
Economists call that robustness.
Seems useful for picking members for Trump’s AI commission.
Economists call that robustness.
Seems useful for picking members for Trump’s AI commission.
With $7 trillion on the line, AI safety may always take a backseat to market domination www.axios.com/2026/09/22/a...
With $7 trillion on the line, AI safety may always take a backseat to market domination
Why slowing down AI scaling may be impossible.
www.axios.com
September 22, 2026 at 10:43 AM
With $7 trillion on the line, AI safety may always take a backseat to market domination www.axios.com/2026/09/22/a...