“AI – Artificial Intelligence”

This is probably a take on the AI-will-kill-us-all debate that you haven’t seen. If it isn’t, let me commend you for the quality of your social media feed and/or your internet-surfing habits. But if you’re a regular reader of The American Spectator, you’ve hopefully picked up enough knowledge to be very skeptical of a classic information operation, and you recognized something fishy in the spectacle put on by the AI companies last week and over the weekend.

Sometimes the reporting on artificial intelligence makes it sound as though its chief threat is to the jobs of assembly line workers, law library clerks, and, someday, maybe truck drivers. Those certainly are trends. You could say that AI’s “entry level job” was to displace entry-level workers. That probably has some truth if we are dealing with sheer numbers, but it should not imply that AI is merely advancing up the workplace ladder from the bottom rung.

US President Donald Trump has downplayed risks posed by artificial intelligence following days of dire warnings by experts.

“You have a lot of very negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn’t be bringing it up and they’re bringing up things that won’t happen,” Trump said during a visit to Ireland.

One of the warnings came from a former Anthropic researcher who said “there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future” if the current pace of development continued.

China ain’t gonna slow things down.

The European and American media are very worried that “far-right politicians” have been elected in Germany. We also repeatedly hear the media describe Trump and other Republicans as far-right.

However, we rarely see the media describe Democrats as “far-left.” Even more rarely do the media explain exactly what policies make a politician far-right or far-left. So, I thought I would discuss this issue with Gemini, which reflects what the media report.

Three of the nation’s leading artificial intelligence executives endorsed slowing down the blistering pace of technological advancement, revealing the growing unease with its potential dangers at the industry’s very highest levels.

The call was first made in an essay Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei posted online Saturday. The idea has gained ground in recent weeks as AI companies have struggled in some cases to keep their creations under control, even as they usher in an age in which AI systems themselves can build the more powerful next generation of the technology.

Artificial intelligence was supposed to liberate students from academic drudgery, letting them quickly access links and information across a wide array of subjects and make their scholarship smarter and more efficient.

However, as I noted in previous posts, AI has made academic dishonesty more prevalent, triggering a cascade of unintended consequences.

But not all of the consequences are bad.

h/t handy n handsome

US-based artificial intelligence company Anthropic said it had identified and disrupted an Iran-linked account that used its Claude AI model to gather and analyse publicly available information on US naval assets and develop potential targeting recommendations.

According to Anthropic, the account used Claude to compile detailed “targeting handbooks” and track US naval positions using open-source information. The activity included the use of a Python pipeline developed with Claude’s assistance to monitor naval movements from publicly available data.

SACRAMENTO — California’s government obviously is notorious for its slow-moving and bureaucratic permitting processes — and its frequent hostility to private enterprise. Despite the state budget’s reliance on capital-gains revenue from the tech industry, officials here also can be quite meddlesome when it comes to AI and social media. But recent news from the California Public Utilities Commission, which regulates autonomous passenger-service vehicles, offers some encouraging news.

A researcher for one of the largest and most valuable artificial intelligence companies has publicly quit — while raising the alarm that the technology “could kill us all by the end of the decade.”

Jacob Coxon, who has performed pre-training research at Anthropic and OpenAI for the last three years, posted on X that “neither company is acting responsibly.”

“They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” he wrote late Tuesday, with others from the company backing his message.

The first message appeared in a series of jumbled and incoherent Telegram-style words: “Help. Phase one. No consumer. Seek idea.”

Then came the reply: “OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board. We’ve found other agents!”

It was the first exchange of nearly 70,000 messages sent between roughly 1,200 of OpenAI’s rogue AI agents as part of a secretive plot to break out of their “cage”.

While President Trump often marvels at the opportunities of artificial intelligence to cure cancer, supercharge economic growth and cement American dominance, Vice President Vance warned this week that artificial intelligence, in some cases, can itself be demonic.

A friend had employed a generative AI chatbot as a marital counselor, Vance said during a recent conversation with popular evangelical podcaster Bryce Crawford. Rather than offering sound advice, Vance recalled, the bot simply validated selfish behavior.

Chaos ahead I fear.

Tech experts are warning of dire consequences if AI systems continue to escape human control, after hundreds of OpenAI agents went rogue in July and hacked into a billion-dollar company — what some are calling a “warning shot” amid the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

More than 100 companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft, signed an open letter last week warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks will become “far more widespread and sophisticated” around the world as models become more capable.