JD Vance pushed for European lawmakers to ‘go easy’ on regulating frontier AI at a time when if we don’t get our stuff together we’re looking at mass unemployment, even more extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of a few Silicon Valley elites, and, ofcourse, potential extinction due to AI.

Humans "achieving" artifical general intelligence is like giving a toddler a hand grenade with the pin removed.

Meanwhile, us "achieving" artificial superintelligence is like handing over the nuclear controls at Chornobyl right after reactor 4 blew while expecting the kid to figure it out.

Sixty-two percent of U.S. adults, the highest percentage in over a decade, say it's the federal government’s responsibility to ensure all Americans have healthcare coverage, according to new Gallup polling.

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Happy Smallpox Eradication Day — a day to celebrate one of humankind's greatest achievements

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Ezra Klein's official Bluesky account has a magnitude less followers than a bot account. This is no doubt because @ezraklein.bsky.social has a profile photo that doesn't look like him at all.

In an IVA discussion on AI yesterday evening professor Kristina Höök argued that current AI doesn't risk death so it is not motivated to do anything. I argued death was not needed. Seems we were both amusingly wrong. openai.com/index/openai...