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"LLMs might have meaningful applications in hybrid warfare, as in the use of chemical weapons as a terror weapon (the recent rise of #LLM-backed cyberattacks and LLM astroturfing bots genuinely concerns me), but remain uncompetitive when it comes to actually doing work of substance" — @…

There's little that's "inevitable" about AI | deadSimpleTech
The glib response here would be to say that no technology is ever inevitable and that everything is contingent. This has the advantages of being technically true and sounding wise, but unfortunately technologies very much exist that a reasonable person might well label that way. Firearms are a good example of the latter case: once they've been developed, you quite quickly hit the situation where if you want to maintain your independence and safety in a society, you have to either use one or hav…

Free game alert: State Of Mind on GoG.
When mind and machine become one – what will remain of humanity?
Berlin, 2048 – The world is on the brink. Lack of resources, illnesses caused by polluted air and water, crime on the rise, war. Governments and companies promise remedies through technological progress. Drones and humanoid robots replace humans in the public sector, everything is interconnected, surveillance has become omnipresent.

Google updates Maps to show Lake America for US users, Lake Ontario for Canadian users, and both for the rest of the world, citing the US GNIS' name change (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/lake-trump-ontario-america-7c5c9776d72cb8e8d782…

Google Maps changes Lake Ontario's name to 'Lake America' for US users
Google says it has updated its maps application to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” for users in the United States. The global technology giant says the move reflects a recent order by President Donald Trump that changed the name of the lake amid an escalating trade war with Canada. The company says that the decision was based on its practice of using the name assigned by the U.S. Geographic Names Information System. The White House as well as the office of Canadian Prime Minister Mark…

Execs think that AI can magically fix all their org's problems: their data problem, their PDLC problem, their PMF problem.
But AI is not magic. It's just a technology — and like all novel technologies, incorporating it into your process only expands the number of things that can and will go wrong.

AI is not a substitute for knowing how to run software projects
Despite execs' best hopes for automating their own jobs, technology will always remain downstream of decision-making.

Science Matters - Clean power pathways beat carbon capture
from David Suzuki
We know that spewing greenhouse gases into the air, mainly by burning fossil fuels, is the primary driver of rapidly accelerating global heating, and that carbon dioxide can remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years. Some, however, is taken up by plants, soil and water as part of the carbon cycle.
Does that mean using technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere is a viable or necessary clima…

Over the past two years,
Democrats and Republicans in Congress have issued a battery of measures that would
slow down A.I. development in response to safety concerns,
limit access to the technology to address national security risks
and tend to the potential economic fallout from mass automation.
But lawmakers have largely failed to enact any of the proposals,
having been stymied by persistent partisan divisions and, in some cases,
fierce lobbying by…

Congress Has Proposed Many Bills for A.I. Regulation. Lawmakers Have Enacted Few.
For years, Democrats and Republicans have proposed bills to address the greatest threats posed by artificial intelligence. Many remain stymied by political disputes.