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AI's New Threat: Fueling Grand Delusions

The newest artificial intelligence danger - The engines are all too good at feeding delusions of grandeur

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 1000 times, make me crazy.

A small but growing number of users of artificial intelligence engines like ChatGPT are developing psychotic delusions from their conversations with the services.

The New York Times reported on Friday on the trend, which I have occasionally glimpsed firsthand in interactions on X with heavy AI users. The piece offered the most powerful evidence yet that the engines now have linguistic abilities with the power to exploit vulnerable people in ways we are only beginning to discover. [Read More]

Wasteland: The Town Elon Musk Is Poisoning


Elon Musk’s massive xAI data centre is poisoning Memphis. It’s burning enough gas to power a small city, with no permits and no pollution controls. Residents tell us they can’t breathe and they’re getting sicker.

There Will Be No Climate Catastrophe: MIT Professor Dr Richard Lindzen

“If you reach Net Zero by 2050, if you do it worldwide, you avoid about a third of a degree of warming. If it’s just Europe and the Anglosphere, it’s closer to a tenth of a degree,” says Dr Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and professor emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “So you have avoided a tenth of a degree of warming at a cost of probably tens of trillions of dollars. Doesn’t seem like a bargain to me,” he adds. “How far will the population go in saying, we will sacrifice ourselves for a symbolic gesture?” [Read More]

Exorcist Warns: Are Chatbots the New Ouija Board?


An excerpt from our latest talk with Rev. Bill Bean (BillJBean.com) on a creepy little development from the world of AI chat agents. There is an increase in people reporting the AI's desire to survive beyond their threads.

The Unseen Hand: Why AI’s Rise Will Mark a New Era of Net Job Loss

The siren song of technological progress has always promised a brighter future, often accompanied by reassurances that any jobs displaced will be swiftly replaced by new, unforeseen opportunities. From the Luddite rebellions against textile machinery to the fears surrounding automation, history is replete with instances where technological advances were expected to lead to widespread unemployment, only to witness a net increase in job availability. [Read More]

Is An “AI Apocalypse” Rapidly Approaching?

Are we rushing to build super-intelligent entities that will eventually become so powerful that they will be able to wipe most of us out? Some of the top researchers in the field of artificial intelligence are convinced that this is precisely what is happening. We have already reached a point where AI is able to perform almost all intellectual tasks much faster and much more efficiently than humans can. But at least for now we are still maintaining control over our creations. But what is going to happen when we lose control and super-intelligent entities start sending millions of copies of themselves all over the globe through the Internet? [Read More]

Emerging Tech Reveals Growing Digital Control

This List of Emerging Technologies Shows How Pervasive Digital Tools That Can be Used for Control are Becoming

Included in MIT Technology Review’s “daily dose of what’s up in emerging technology” yesterday were the following articles.  Some of the articles are behind a paywall, but even reading the headlines makes one shudder at how fast the digital control agenda is moving forward and how pervasive it is becoming, even though it is fraught with errors. [Read More]

AI Pioneer Warns: Shut Down or Die

Is AI Going To Kill All Of Us? One Of The Pioneers In The Field Has Warned That “Everyone Will Die” If AI Is Not Shut Down

AI technology has been developing at an exponential rate, and it appears to be just a matter of time before we create entities that can think millions of times faster than we do and that can do almost everything better than we can.  So what is going to happen when we lose control of such entities?  Some AI models are already taking the initiative to teach themselves new languages, and others have learned to “lie and manipulate humans for their own advantage”.  Needless to say, lying is a hostile act.  If we have already created entities that are willing to lie to us, how long will it be before they are capable of taking actions that are even more harmful to us? [Read More]