Altman and Amodei warn humanity
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned the U.N. Security Council in New York Wednesday that poorly managed AI could threaten humanity and urged global cooperation.
they are literally saying ‘give us what we want, or humanity gets it.’
Tech leaders to UN: For the sake of humanity, please control the AI technology we created
The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations to set controls over the burgeoning technology they are designing in order to save the world — or at least its people.
apnews.com
September 24, 2026 at 12:09 AM
they are literally saying ‘give us what we want, or humanity gets it.’
by Greg Linden
I think cheaper but good enough will win: "China is prioritizing the development of AI systems that are cheap, open-weight ... High-quality outputs with significantly less compute ... US models can cost up to 10 times the cost of running comparable Chinese models."
Chinese models now surpass U.S. models in both monthly and total downloads. National security policy professional Prince Osaji says the dominant AI power won't be the one with the most powerful model—it'll be the one with the most adopted one.
China Is Running a Different AI Race
Prince Osaji writes that China is prioritizing AI systems that are cheap, open-weight, and exportable—pursuing dominance through adoption, not power.
buff.ly
September 23, 2026 at 11:47 PM
I think cheaper but good enough will win: "China is prioritizing the development of AI systems that are cheap, open-weight ... High-quality outputs with significantly less compute ... US models can cost up to 10 times the cost of running comparable Chinese models."
In any reasonable society the next sentence would be ‘and so they were all put in jail for admitting to gross negligence and malfeasance on a scale previously unthinkable’
BREAKING: Heads of major AI firms warn the UN that without intervention, "AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole".
Heads of AI firms tell UN Security Council that it could be a risk to all humanity
The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations to set controls over the burgeoning technology they are designing in order to save the world — or at least its people.
bit.ly
September 23, 2026 at 11:44 PM
In any reasonable society the next sentence would be ‘and so they were all put in jail for admitting to gross negligence and malfeasance on a scale previously unthinkable’
“The result … is that thousands of Palestinians — most of them women and children or people who were not involved in the fighting — were wiped out by Israeli airstrikes, especially during the first weeks of the war, because of the AI program’s decisions.”
www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...
www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...
www.972mag.com
September 23, 2026 at 11:36 PM
“The result … is that thousands of Palestinians — most of them women and children or people who were not involved in the fighting — were wiped out by Israeli airstrikes, especially during the first weeks of the war, because of the AI program’s decisions.”
www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...
www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...
Reposted by Greg Linden
Chinese models now surpass U.S. models in both monthly and total downloads. National security policy professional Prince Osaji says the dominant AI power won't be the one with the most powerful model—it'll be the one with the most adopted one.
China Is Running a Different AI Race
Prince Osaji writes that China is prioritizing AI systems that are cheap, open-weight, and exportable—pursuing dominance through adoption, not power.
buff.ly
September 23, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Chinese models now surpass U.S. models in both monthly and total downloads. National security policy professional Prince Osaji says the dominant AI power won't be the one with the most powerful model—it'll be the one with the most adopted one.
Just got my first AI slop paper to review & am totally ripshit per @novosad.bsky.social - what a waste of time! AI is amazing but can destroy science while revolutionizing it.
Editors: We are looking for journal partners to study how to use AI to make scientific publishing better (not worse). LMK!
Editors: We are looking for journal partners to study how to use AI to make scientific publishing better (not worse). LMK!
September 23, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Just got my first AI slop paper to review & am totally ripshit per @novosad.bsky.social - what a waste of time! AI is amazing but can destroy science while revolutionizing it.
Editors: We are looking for journal partners to study how to use AI to make scientific publishing better (not worse). LMK!
Editors: We are looking for journal partners to study how to use AI to make scientific publishing better (not worse). LMK!
Ethical problem of the day. Conceiving all knowledge dissemination in history to be 'passive' (tell that to a 13thC biblical commentator) & imagining you can release others' hard-won research as an active AI agent is troubling to this humanist (not to say errorful)
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
Manuscripts-turned AI agents can now ‘talk’ to each other, make new discoveries
Stanford Medicine researchers converted scientific papers into artificial intelligence agents that can answer questions, run analyses and collaborate to make new discoveries.
med.stanford.edu
September 23, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Ethical problem of the day. Conceiving all knowledge dissemination in history to be 'passive' (tell that to a 13thC biblical commentator) & imagining you can release others' hard-won research as an active AI agent is troubling to this humanist (not to say errorful)
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
by Justin Lewis
‘How it uses AI Gene Wilder’: is it ‘abysmally and unethically’?
September 23, 2026 at 9:51 PM
‘How it uses AI Gene Wilder’: is it ‘abysmally and unethically’?
by Ian Bremmer
taking the stage with my friends @bradsmi.bsky.social and elizabeth cousens
to discuss ai governance in a leaderless world…
do join us
youtube.com/live/3EP4qLK...
to discuss ai governance in a leaderless world…
do join us
youtube.com/live/3EP4qLK...
Global Stage: Live from the 81st UN General Assembly
YouTube video by GZERO Media
youtube.com
September 23, 2026 at 9:01 PM
taking the stage with my friends @bradsmi.bsky.social and elizabeth cousens
to discuss ai governance in a leaderless world…
do join us
youtube.com/live/3EP4qLK...
to discuss ai governance in a leaderless world…
do join us
youtube.com/live/3EP4qLK...
Reposted by Henry Jones
The people who built AI with seemingly little care for the havoc it could cause and no guardrails to protect public should be held accountable for every problem AI is now causing. They want to make billions but don’t want to accept responsibility for their technology.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
Breaking: OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says an Open AI agent gained unauthorised accessed to the Medicare statistics reporting service portal.
www.abc.net.au
September 23, 2026 at 8:55 PM
The people who built AI with seemingly little care for the havoc it could cause and no guardrails to protect public should be held accountable for every problem AI is now causing. They want to make billions but don’t want to accept responsibility for their technology.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
Reposted by Euan G. Ritchie
JUST IN: Australian PM Albanese has revealed at a UN speech that OpenAI hacked into Australia's Medicare system, potentially exposing Australians' medical data.
In Aussie parlance, it looks like Albo hand-passed Trump's AI obsession right back to deluded Donny.
In Aussie parlance, it looks like Albo hand-passed Trump's AI obsession right back to deluded Donny.
September 23, 2026 at 8:50 PM
JUST IN: Australian PM Albanese has revealed at a UN speech that OpenAI hacked into Australia's Medicare system, potentially exposing Australians' medical data.
In Aussie parlance, it looks like Albo hand-passed Trump's AI obsession right back to deluded Donny.
In Aussie parlance, it looks like Albo hand-passed Trump's AI obsession right back to deluded Donny.
by Zen Faulkes
Thinking about how some scientists might support AI 🤖 for research because they see it as a way to circumvent journal paywalls.
Haven’t seen anyone say this specifically, but I wonder if any are thinking 💭 along those lines.
Haven’t seen anyone say this specifically, but I wonder if any are thinking 💭 along those lines.
September 23, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Thinking about how some scientists might support AI 🤖 for research because they see it as a way to circumvent journal paywalls.
Haven’t seen anyone say this specifically, but I wonder if any are thinking 💭 along those lines.
Haven’t seen anyone say this specifically, but I wonder if any are thinking 💭 along those lines.