Getting ready for the end by 2035; so I have a lot of analog tools and food in my basement waiting for the drones. The clock is ticking, tic tock tic tock and the alarm is chiming. Just need a good crossbow.

Former AI employee says insiders believe technology ‘could kill us all’ by decade’s end

US urged to consider military strikes to stop China achieving AGI first

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An AI for an AI. ðŸ˜

 R_P wrote:

I met Altman years ago (~ loopt/Y-combinator era). I got a distinctly bad vibe from him and wasn't comfortable doing business with him. I wouldn't leave him alone with a puppy, your sister, or my cocktail, and definitely keep your hand on your wallet and keep him in front of you. I wouldn't say hate, but he's not a good guy.

 R_P wrote:
Chronic hatred keeps the body in a constant "fight or flight" stress response, flooding the system with cortisol and adrenaline. Over time, this ongoing state damages physical and mental health, raising the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, weakened immunity, severe anxiety, and chronic inflammation. <1, 2, 3, 4Physical Health Effects

• Heart strain: Constant anger and hostility raise heart rates and blood pressure, leading to a higher risk of heart attacks and strokes.
• Systemic inflammation: Ongoing stress hormones cause tissue damage and weaken the immune system, making it harder to fight off illnesses.
• Body tension: Unconscious physical stress leads to tight muscles, jaw clenching, teeth grinding, and constant physical exhaustion.
• Digestive trouble: Stress signals disrupt gut health, causing stomach pain and poor digestion. <1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Mental Health Effects

• Anxiety and depression: Holding onto intense dislike feeds obsessive thoughts, paranoia, and deep emotional sadness.
• Mental exhaustion: Focusing energy on someone you hate drains your mental focus and leaves you tired all the time.
• Social withdrawal: Bitterness harms personal relationships and makes it hard to feel joy or connection with others. <1, 2, 3, 4

Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It’s Almost Hard to Believe
They're even more unpopular than data centers.

Useful to whom?

Nothing in law required that choice. NIH's biosecurity policy from Monday doesn't cover any of this. Arc published Thursday.

My Take
The Arc team excluded human pathogens from training data because they thought it was the right call, and no regulator or funder asked them to. That decision made by one research group in Palo Alto was the entire safety framework for what they published. NIH's policy from Monday already fails to cover what came out Thursday, and the researchers who did the work told the New York Times they have received no guidance on what they should or shouldn't build.

The next lab has no obligation to make the same choice Arc did. A group in Shenzhen or a defense contractor in Virginia could run the same method with different training data and produce something very different. Four years after a virus shut down the global economy, the U.S. regulatory response to AI-designed pathogens is that Johns Hopkins researchers are asking reporters what to do.

Some flex: Hey, we happen to be dangerous too!

A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
It makes it easy to trick them into doing things they shouldn’t, such as telling you how to sabotage an aircraft’s navigation system
(MIT Technology Review)

 Red_Dragon wrote:

They’re coming for us!

OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probe