If there were a 10% chance that AI could wipe out humanity,
no responsible government would leave its development to companies racing to build it.
Yet until recently, that seemed to be the case.
The warning was all the more ominous because it was made by a researcher at Anthropic,
the trillion-dollar AI company behind the Claude chatbot.
The dangers of AI-enabled pandemics or attacks on nuclear systems are real.
Countries need not agree on democracy or …
David Ellison Should Never Own a Combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery, because of course he shouldn't.
No one person, family or company should own so much news, media and entertainment.
But that didn't stop David Ellison from trying to convince us he should (and oddly making it clear he should not).
Most days I post some articles from The UK socialist daily, The Morning Star.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/
I don't agree with everything in the paper (I'm a degrowth ecoMarxist) but by and large it is good journalism and editorial. It's our paper.
I post a lot from it because ot…
@… You didn't come across a good Android pixelart editor, did you?
I tried to reconnect via desktop, but pixelling with the mouse doesn't agree with me.