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“‘People demanding that AIs have rights would be a huge mistake,’ said Bengio.”
Yes, but not because “Frontier” AI models already show signs of “self-preservation,” but because it’s a huge scam aiming to make a few people even richer, who don’t care about destroying everything else.
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I think the root of the “AI” evil is when AI researchers in the 1960s recognized that they outrageously underestimated the complexity of the human mind.
They became humiliated by their promises that AGI was just a few years away—and then went full goblin mode that’s lasting to this day.
Some of the OG researchers took it quite badly that they stalled and weren’t in the limelight anymore.
‣ Marvin Minsky (co-founder of MIT AI lab and arguably the most important early AI bro) went on to visit Epstein’s island multiple times.
‣ Karl Steinbuch, who came up with the German term for computer science ("Informatik")—who also was a literal Nazi (and likely war criminal) in World War II—later wrote articles in ultra-right magazines about things like “equal rights rob women of their children”.
‣ John McCarthy (inventor of Lisp, co-authored document that coined the term “Artificial Intelligence”) was a staunch Republican who years later claimed (in a serious article) that “thermostats have beliefs”.
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‣ There’s a second Epstein Island AI pioneer? Who also was Chief Learning Officer at… Trump University? That would be Roger Schank (founded one of the first AI companies in the 1980s AI boom, it even had an IPO. Of course the 1980s AI bubble burst).
Obviously all of the above received all the awards in computer science and are very revered people.

"How do you acknowledge that the father of the computer was a homosexual, brutally bullied by the state into suicide, and then fund groups that want to deny gay people fundamental human rights?
The ARM processor which powers the modern world was co-designed by a #trans woman. When you throw slurs and denigrate people's pronouns, your ignorance and hatred does a disservice to history a…

Some years back my wife made the front page of the Wall St. Journal. They did a piece about how she made up fake data (names, locations, dates, CV, etc) to feed to social media in order to disrupt data linking.
We are one of the few places that has a paper copy of the highly prescient HEW report from 1973 that warned of the dangers of the now ubiquitous practice of data linking.
"Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens: Report of the HEW Advisory Committee on Automate…

From The Conversation
Canada’s long history with public service media offers a useful model for thinking about how AI could serve the public.
A publicly funded AI system could draw on public-domain materials, government datasets and openly licensed cultural content. It could be offered as an open-source system, making it widely available to researchers, developers and everyday users alike.

CPU-Limits kill Performance: Time to rethink Resource Control
Chirag Shetty, Sarthak Chakraborty, Hubertus Franke, Larisa Shwartz, Chandra Narayanaswami, Indranil Gupta, Saurabh Jha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10747

CPU-Limits kill Performance: Time to rethink Resource Control
Research in compute resource management for cloud-native applications is dominated by the problem of setting optimal CPU limits -- a fundamental OS mechanism that strictly restricts a container's CPU usage to its specified CPU-limits . Rightsizing and autoscaling works have innovated on allocation/scaling policies assuming the ubiquity and necessity of CPU-limits . We question this. Practical experiences of cloud users indicate that CPU-limits harms application performance and costs more than i…

The Canadian computer scientist Bengio expressed concern that AI models – the technology that underpins tools like chatbots – were showing signs of self-preservation, such as trying to disable oversight systems. A core concern among AI safety campaigners is that powerful systems could develop the capability to evade guardrails and harm humans.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/30/ai-pull-plug-pioneer-technology-rights?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other