Grok’s ‘White Genocide’ Responses Show How Generative AI Can Be Weaponized
The tools that are meant to help make AI safer could actually make it much more dangerous.
Is AI Sparking a Cognitive Revolution That Will Lead to Mediocrity and Conformity?
What happens to the writer who no longer struggles with the perfect phrase, or the designer who no longer sketches dozens of variations before finding the right one?
Trump Killed Public War Research. Stargate Will Make It Secret—and Far More Dangerous
The Pentagon’s academic program studied dissent, protest, and radicalization. Now it’s being replaced by a private AI surveillance network run in total secrecy.
The New Age Militarists
And Their Threat to Our Common Future.
State Department To Use AI To Revoke Visas of Students Who ‘Appear Pro-Hamas’
The effort will comb through social media accounts using AI in a major crackdown on the speech of foreign students.
Modern Times and Ancient Truths
Today, the Little Tramp, has been replaced by big Trump and his sidekick, Elon Musk, owners and operators of the new AI Digital factory Internet system, posing as saviors of…
China’s Shocking DeepSeek AI Pops US Big Tech Monopoly Bubble
Chinese AI company DeepSeek shocked the West with a groundbreaking open-source artificial intelligence model that beats huge Silicon Valley Big Tech monopolies. Is the US stock market bubble popping?
Yanis Varoufakis on Cloud Capital vs AI: DeepSeek, Technofeudalism, Capitalism and the New Cold War
The gist of DeepSeek's arrival on the AI scene and the carnage in the American stock exchanges is a sudden transition from proprietary to open source technology.
The US National Security State Is Here to Make AI Even Less Transparent and Accountable
As the US national security state attempts to leverage powerful commercial AI to give it an edge, there are a number of questions that remain unanswered about how much that…
EFF & 140 Other Organizations Call for an End to AI Use in Immigration Decisions
Even though AI is unproven in its efficacy, DHS has frenetically incorporated AI into many of its functions.
AI, Guaranteed Income and the ‘Which Way Is Up?’ Problem Afflicting Our Elites
By Dean Baker / Beat the Press Leading media outlets like The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker have about as much concern for intellectual consistency as…
Philosopher Kings or New-Age Militarists?
Silicon Valley and the Rush Toward Automated Warfare.
Stanford University Team Issues Apology Over Allegations of Copying Chinese Project for AI Model
Undergraduate developers admit a project developed by Tsinghua University and ModelBest is “very similar.”
Why Wall Street Wants You to Fear AI
By Les Leopold / Substack Goldman Sachs, the infamous Wall Street “vampire squid” (aptly so dubbed by Matt Taibbi), wants to scare the hell out of us. It reports that…
Congress Should Just Say No to NO FAKES
By Corynne McSherry / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) There is a lot of anxiety around the use of generative artificial intelligence, some of it justified. But it seems like Congress…