Do 3 lines of math show that time travel is impossible?
Stephen Hawking held a party for time travelers, sending out the invitations a day later. No one attended.
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Are the companies that own AI a bigger threat than the tech?
A much more realistic concern than AI Doomsday is a gradual transfer of power from ourselves and our elected representatives to AI tech moguls.
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News agency notes rise in machine-driven attacks on “secure” data
At Reuters news agency, cybersecurity reporter Raphael Satter discusses how easy it is becoming to hack sites using AI agents that are programmed to do the work.
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MIT psychologist: Beware the chatbot’s artificial empathy
When the user says “Me, me, me!”, the bot can reply, “Yes, you, you, you!” Real relationships can never be like that because both parties are real.
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Spotted! Indie Canadian news outlet sniffs out phantom AI “writer”
Overall, the problem of AI slop will certainly be complicated by government subsidy of legacy media, which removes the need for vigilance.
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The struggle to produce better social science
Christopher J. Ferguson’s article identifies efforts at reform in social science that are worth knowing about.
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Parents enlist AI to monitor what goes on at school boards
Moms for Liberty hopes that the new system will give parents warnings even if policies are buried deep in school board output.
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Is AI really making us more productive? That’s unclear
As Ross Clarke suggests at The Spectator, whether AI makes us more productive probably depends in large part on how we decide to use it.
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Can machines reason? Depends on what you mean by “reason”
Sasha Mudd argues that reason is the power to invent something new, intellectually but also morally.
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Nuclear doomsday mag says, AI Doomerism is bad science
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says AI doom is overrated; implies crass business motives at play.
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How much can the AI companies get away with before karma kicks in?
A law prof argues: “Congress should investigate the hell out of these companies. So should states and cities.”
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How long will the Superintelligence Accord last? Got a stopwatch?
The key question is, what’s the future of “‘morally binding’ self-policing” if it is left to AI moguls?
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The high risks of making a chatbot—or influencer—your doctor
Many people today turn to bots and social media for medical advice, despite their significant unreliability.
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Are AI detection tools fundamentally untrustworthy?
AI detectors are like weather forecasters. They can be wrong but the probabilities favor them being right.
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Fact-checking the pop science buzz that two brains evolved into one
Once cells know they are neurons, they know which end to go to but that doesn’t amount to two brains.
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British Medical Journal: Covid czars KNEW their system was flawed
CDC canceled the whistleblower rather than deal with the flaws.Assurances of safety were unfounded.
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Another blow to iconic Hollywood’s finances
The stifling of creativity that Cancel Culture imposes and the warping of classics that Wokeness inflicts are symptoms, not causes of decline.
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Fallout from the Cambridge Jason Arday debacle — was anything learned?
The rush on the part of academics to blame media (who can slough off responsibility and reroute the blame to nameless others) is easier to understand once we see that it is only the tip of much bigger scandals.
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At last … $1M award for scholars who try to tell the truth?
The current censorship regime in social science protects entitled mediocrities from being shown up by clever students. Once they have declared a topic off limits, they are safe.
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Which students think shouting down a speaker is okay?
Students from minority backgrounds or other minority positions were more likely to support shouting speakers down.
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