

I was just listening to an interview with Emile Torres, itās an hour long but it is on the topic youāre asking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt508VjX2H8


I was just listening to an interview with Emile Torres, itās an hour long but it is on the topic youāre asking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt508VjX2H8


Just listened to this and thought it was worth sharing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EY2QDfp2O4
"Are we on the verge of an AI apocalypse, or is Silicon Valley using doomsday fears to distract us from the damage AI is already doing? Tech insiders and Big Tech CEOs warn that superintelligence could wipe out humanity. Meanwhile, AI is already fuelling warfare and environmental destruction, with zero accountability. If the very people warning us about AIās dangers also stand to profit from it, is existential doom a genuine warning or the ultimate marketing strategy?
This week on The Tea, weāre joined by pioneering AI researcher Dr Timnit Gebru, former co-lead of Googleās Ethical AI team. Timnit warned about the dangers of large language models years before the current AI boom. In this interview, she exposes the motives and the ideology behind Silicon Valleyās apocalyptic vision."


Also Timnit Gebru and Emily Bender published this https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-fooled-summer-ai-hype/ which links to a good explanation by Heidy Khlaaf in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwv8zfGyvP8.


I thought this was a good post by Eryk Salvaggio on this: https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-go-rogue/


Most read article on BBC this morning: AI staff āgenuinely frightenedā for humanityās future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC


Guardian reporting it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/22/openai-says-its-models-went-rogue-and-hacked-startup-in-unprecedented-incident
They do have a partnership with OpenAI though: https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2025/feb/14/guardian-media-group-announces-strategic-partnership-with-openai
Novara media also drinking the kool aid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnqZNnWU8Kg which is disappointing.


I watched it here: https://kinema.com/films/ghost-in-the-machine-pvxg4p (found via https://bsky.app/profile/ghostdoc2026.bsky.social/post/3mi3yhdccds2p).


Congrats on the documentary! I watched it last month and Iāve been recommending it to others.


Ran into these two videos today: AI Crash Report: The Money Furnace, AI Crash Report: The Physics of the Collapse.
Full of generated images, but seems to carry a good message.


I thought we all agreed that 4 was the random number.


Wouldnāt whoever is running the bot just be able to do a quick .replace() before feeding the raw data into it? What would be funnier is to get the bot to generate the string itself and then stop, without it being obiously present in the input. :)


Ryanair now makes you install their app instead of allowing you to just print and scan your ticket at the airport, claiming itās ābetter for our environment (gets rid of 300 tonnes of paper annually).ā Then you log in into the app and you see thereās an update about your flight, but you donāt see what itās about. You need to open an update video, which, of course, is a generated video of an avatar reading it out for you. I bet thatās better for the environment than using some of these weird symbols that I was putting into a box and that have now magically appeared on your screen and are making you feel annoyed (in the future for me, but present for you).


⦠but the output is not deterministic as the letter count is sampled from a distribution of possible letter counts for a given word and letter pair; count ~ p(count | word = āblueberryā, letter = ābā)!
This is great :D https://morewrong.lol/?post=im-huffing-computer-duster-because-ai-will-reverse-my-brain-damage