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.
Posts for Tag: automation
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]
The Eliza Effect 2: Electric Idiocracy Zombie Apocalypse Boogaloo
Blurring the Lines: Making People More Like Machines And Machines More Like People
Transhumanism has infiltrated society so gradually that we don't realise the dangers posed by what amounts to a new religion, until it's too late and we're deeply and irreversibly changed. [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
