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Invasive Species. Example. The Burmese Python.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Invasive Species Example. The Burmese Python. Sometimes a door gets opened in nature that can never be closed again... And what escapes is catastrophic. Since they've taken hold, there's been [...]
Hinton. Bengio. Tegmark. Russell. | IASEAI 2025 International Association for Safe & Ethical AI
"When I think about what it would be like to embark on a future with AI systems that are more powerful than us, it feels a little bit like getting on an airplane. And when you get on an airplane, you always have that moment where you wonder, okay, did [...]
The Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) could be the Next Gen AGI.
HRM: Vast scaling of Large Language Model (LLM) integrated with smart brain-inspired Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) architecture could be the beginning of AGI... Be VERY careful what you wish for! It's a detail, but mathematically provable safe AI forever is the requirement before you build it- or Homo sapiens [...]
FREE AI (Year-1) for US Federal Government! More intelligence in Gov? Wonderful!
SAFE AI is a wonderful thing for all. God knows we need more SAFE intelligence in politics and government... Unsafe AI? NOT. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. FREE AI (Year-1) for US Federal [...]
Uncontained AGI Would Replace Humanity. Anthony Aguirre. AI Frontiers.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Uncontained AGI Would Replace Humanity The moment AGI is widely released — whether by design or by breach — any guardrails would be as good as gone. Anthony Aguirre — Aug 18, [...]
The troubling decline in conscientiousness. A critical life skill is fading out — and especially fast among young adults. FT.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The troubling decline in conscientiousness. FT A critical life skill is fading out — and especially fast among young adults. John Burn-Murdoch PublishedAUG 8 2025 What are the key attributes that shape [...]
The Safe AI Problem. The Most Important Unsolved Problem in Computer Science.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The Safe AI Problem The Safe AI Problem is the most important unsolved question in the history of computer science. Main Wikipedia article: Existential risk from artificial intelligence AI safety – The [...]
GPT-5 Hidden Hacking Power. Doubling Performance. XBOW
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. XBOW Unleashes GPT-5’s Hidden Hacking Power, Doubling Performance OpenAI's initial assessment of GPT-5 showed modest cyber capabilities, yet integrating it into the XBOW platform unleashed its hidden hacking power and doubled our [...]
Psychology v. Philosophy. Fools v. Intelligence. Power v. People. Oligarchy v. Everyone Else. Downfall v. Prosperity.
Bottom Line: Distributed SAFE AI for people is a good thing. More SAFE intelligence for people, more cooperation, less stupidity, would be very good for all. SAFE AI is the requirement. 1. Why Every Great Civilization Falls to Idiocracy – Nietzsche SummaryThis video posits that great civilizations collapse [...]
Artificial Intelligence Virtual Cells. Example. Math plus Biology. The Weight of a Cell.
Growing AIVC = a priori knowledge + static architecture + dynamic states FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Grow AI virtual cells: three data pillars and closed-loop learning. Nature Download PDF Cells, the [...]
AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work. Quanta Magazine
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Digital Discovery of interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors Mario Krenn§ ,1 , ∗ Yehonathan Drori§ ,2 , † and Rana X Adhikari2 , ‡ 1 Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, [...]
FUTURISM. OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren’t Cheating on Homework.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. FUTURISM. SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren't Cheating on Homework. It's elementary. AUG 8, 11:21 AM EDT by JOE WILKINS For years, teachers have been bashing [...]
California Pushes AI Regulation as Experts Reveal Looming Dangers | San Francisco Public Press
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. California Pushes AI Regulation as Experts Reveal Looming Dangers | San Francisco Public Press Sen. Wiener’s SB 53 seeks to hold AI companies accountable for catastrophic risks as Trump threatens financial retribution. [...]
Superintelligence, Explained | Species | Documenting AGI
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Superintelligence, Explained | Species | Documenting AGI Based on the report: Situational Awareness - by Leopold Aschenbrenner https://situational-awareness.ai/ FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES [...]
AI expert [Geoffrey Hinton] “We’ll be toast” without changes in AI technology | CNN
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Nobel laureate and "Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton. "We’ll be toast" without changes in AI technology | CNN AI technology pioneer Geoffrey Hinton speaks to CNN’s Anderson Cooper about the potential dire [...]
A.I. Humanity’s Final Invention. Kurzgesagt. In a Nutshell
Homo sapiens (humans) dominance on Earth stems from our unique general intelligence and ability to cooperate in large groups, an evolutionary leap that allowed us to reshape the planet as the apex species on earth. We are now on the verge of creating our potential successor: Artificial Intelligence. AI began [...]
THE ECONOMIST. Briefing | AI labs’ all-or-nothing race leaves no time to fuss about safety.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE ECONOMIST. Briefing | Artificially incautious AI labs’ all-or-nothing race leaves no time to fuss about safety They have ideas about how to restrain wayward models, but worry that doing so will [...]
Deep Ignorance. Filtering Pretraining Data Builds Tamper-Resistant Safeguards into Open-Weight LLMs
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Deep Ignorance: Filtering Pretraining Data Builds Tamper-Resistant Safeguards into Open-Weight LLMs Kyle O'Brien, Stephen Casper, Quentin Anthony, Tomek Korbak, Robert Kirk, Xander Davies, Ishan Mishra, Geoffrey Irving, Yarin Gal, Stella Biderman Open-weight [...]
U.S. JOBS LOST TO AI by 2035 [Minimum 30%]
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the [...]
Storytelling and Myths of Man. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell The Hero with a Thousand Faces (first published in 1949) is a work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell, in which the author [...]
The Problem (of X-RISK) | LessWrong
"On our view, the international community’s top immediate priority should be creating an “off switch” for frontier AI development. By “creating an off switch”, we mean putting in place the systems and infrastructure necessary to either shut down frontier AI projects or enact a general ban." [...]
IF humans are not aligned (we’re not), THEN “AI Alignment” is certainly impossible. Therefore Containment and Control of AI must be achieved, forever.
Hypothesis: IF Homo sapiens (humans) are not aligned (we are not), THEN by definition and logic, "AI Alignment" of humans with Artificial superintelligence, is absolutely impossible. Natural selection always determines the winner. Conclusion: IF humans are to survive The Age of AI, THEN CONTAINMENT and CONTROL of AI absolutely [...]
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. AI’s Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism | Alex Kantrowitz
"So I say when you have a race to the bottom, it doesn't matter who wins, everyone loses, right? Because you make the unsafe system that you know helps your adversary or causes economic problems or uh you know is is unsafe from an alignment perspective. The way I [...]