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/
Just saw on r/sneerclub:
Department of War CTO twitted: “The United States will NEVER be an effective altruist country. 🇺🇸”
And there’s a photo of Trump with the text: “AMERICANISM, NOT EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM!”
Here’s the reddit post: https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/1wj6r6n/trump_is_trying_to_win_the_sneerclub_vote/
Most read article on BBC this morning: AI staff ‘genuinely frightened’ for humanity’s 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 thought this interview with Prof. Michael I. Jordan was worth listening to, he’s bringing down the hype a bit: Intelligence is collective, not artificial — Prof. Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley / Inria).
Here’s some typos I noticed:
you ever to -> you ever do
RAM, is critical -> RAM, critical
prevent it’s -> its
who look in it’s -> its
Congrats on the documentary! I watched it last month and I’ve 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.
Wouldn’t 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. :)
This is fucking stupid. And now my day is ruined because I got annoyed thinking about this idea.
Just got here to post this link, I’m too slow!
… 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 = “blueberry”, letter = ‘b’)!
Yeah, he seems to be the rational one when it comes to all of this AI (SI?) doom talk.
I think this is a better link: https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/ai-godfather-yann-lecun-has-zero-concerns-about-human-extinction-says-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-is-deuded/
It links also to an article on effective altruism: https://fortune.com/2026/09/23/effective-altruism-went-from-fringe-philosophy-to-trumps-ai-villain/