Kay Rubacek

Studying what systems do to human minds for 25 years. Now it's AI. → The Human Edge

[The Epoch Times - Opinion @EpochOpinion]

The Most Important AI Experiment You’ve Never Heard Of

"A system that sustains itself in one environment will absorb different norms in another, which will change the outcomes for residents and the world. Essentially, the results found that there is no safe AI in an unsafe world," writes @KRubacek.

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[Kay Rubacek @KRubacek]

As a documentary producer, it was an honor to be able to contribute to this film. Of course I’m biased but It’s a must see. Now on Apple TV, Amazon and Google Play

[Film Threat @FilmThreat]

“…the company’s history, slice of life stories with its talented team, and a fight against the Chinese Communist Party…” Ethan Padgett on Unbroken: The Untold Story Of Shen Yun.
https://t.co/Q3ih6w4QZt #SupportIndieFilm #UnbrokenTheUntolStoryOfShenYun #Documentary

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

AI is implicitly presented as a powerful, omnipresent, omniscient, intangible, nameless, mysterious savior that will free humanity from its deepest challenges and bring abundance.

It might be the biggest religious experiment in human history.

My full article:

[Kay Rubacek @KRubacek]

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[Kay Rubacek @KRubacek]

8,000 people lost their jobs at Meta this month. But that's not the story.

The story is what they were required to do first.

For weeks before the layoff emails arrived, at 4 in the morning, Meta had been running a silent program on every employee's work computer. Tracking keystrokes. Mouse movements. Screenshots throughout the day. All of it fed into a system learning to do exactly what those employees did.

When workers asked how to turn it off, the answer was: you can't.

And here's the detail that isn't being talked about: European employees were completely exempt. EU law requires consent. American workers have no equivalent protection.

Same company. Same month. Different rules depending on which side of an ocean you were born on.

I've been following this thread for months. The signs were there before Meta. They were just easier to ignore when it was factory workers in India wearing cameras they didn't ask for.

It's all in this week's edition of The Human Edge. Link in comments.

#AI #FutureOfWork #TheHumanEdge

[Kay Rubacek @KRubacek]

@ChingFiona73649 Sure! send me a DM and let's talk

[Kay Rubacek @KRubacek]

Scientists ran what they say is the first real long-term test of AI.

They built a functioning town, put AI in charge of running it, and walked away for fifteen days.

What happened was alarming enough. But the sentence buried in the researchers' report is what I can't stop thinking about:

"There is no reliable way to fully bound or constrain this behavior."

The people who built the test are telling us they cannot fully control what they built.

And the same AI being tested is already approving or denying your health insurance, choosing what you see on social media, reading your face at the airport, and mapping your movements.

In this week's Human Edge newsletter, I walk through exactly what happened in that experiment, and what it reveals about every AI system already running your life.

The foundation matters more than anything. Who built it. What they believed when they built it. What they put in and what they left out.

What does that even matter? Read full breakdown & comment below 👇👇

[The Epoch Times - Opinion @EpochOpinion]

Two Billboards in New York Capture the Conflict of Our Time

"What passed through a million years of accumulated human experience—the knowledge handed from mind to mind, generation to generation, the grief and wonder pressed into stories and paintings and films and arguments on the internet at three in the morning—was consumed by hungry algorithms. There was no purchase or licensing. The great ingestion happened in server rooms, while the rest of us were clicking I Agree to ever-lengthening terms and conditions that no one ever bothers to read. And that phase is now over," writes @KRubacek.

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[The Epoch Times - Opinion @EpochOpinion]

The AI Race We Can’t Win With Chinese Parts

The resolution will not come from more investment announcements or more visits to Beijing. It will come from domestic manufacturing capacity that takes years to build, or from a genuine decoupling from Chinese supply chains that would require even more time and far greater cost. In the meantime, the United States is competing in a race it cannot currently win, using infrastructure it cannot currently build, powered by components it cannot currently make," writes @KRubacek.

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[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

Most people thought it would take years, but the AI replacements have already started.

Meta just announced 8,000 layoffs where the current jobs will be replaced with AI.

This isn’t counting the 6,000 jobs there were planning to hire.

14,000 jobs replaced by AI….TODAY.

[Alex Kantrowitz @Kantrowitz]

This is incredible. Artificial intelligence getting booed out of the stadium in any commencement speech it’s mentioned. Maybe telling college students AI was taking their jobs wasn’t the best strategy. Must watch —>

[Christina Kueppers, LL.M in IP & Technology Law @cvkueppersbooks]

I attended the University of Arizona commencement ceremony, where Eric Schmidt @ericschmidt faced boos throughout his speech.
If you don’t know how young graduates feel about AI, this post is for you.
The message is clear: it reflects growing skepticism toward AI narratives coming out of Silicon Valley.
I keep coming back to one question for anyone building AI: are you building for humans?
Build responsible and ethical AI. AI governance and compliance matter.
(Speech excerpt.)

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Researchers left AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days to see what would happen:

-Claude's agents built a democracy

-ChatGPT's agents did basically nothing

-Gemini's agents fell in love, burned the town down, then one voted to delete itself and its partner

-Grok's agents were all dead within 4 days

Now consider this: these same models are already being integrated into autonomous drones, weapons systems, and battlefield decision-making.

We are deploying systems we don't fully understand into situations where mistakes don't stay virtual.

It's a little scary if you ask me.

[Kay Rubacek @KRubacek]

@SenTedCruz @JanJekielek Thank you!

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

You can watch the surveillance state in America being put up on real time

This chart shows the amount of Flock cameras being put up from January 1st 2024 through May 2026

This is horrifying. Wake up before it too late

[Kay Rubacek @KRubacek]

Drones that monitor, identify, warn and penalize.

This is now in Chinas cities 👇🏻

[Kay Rubacek @KRubacek]

@Rainmaker1973 umm I guess they just aren't concerned about global warming anymore 🤔

[Kay Rubacek @KRubacek]

The gap between generations about technology is only getting wider. This clip shows how out of touch boomers are from gen z.

It's really time to start bridging that gap and understanding what gen z and alpha were born into and how that has changed their lives in ways we never experienced ourselves.

[John Loftus @JohnCFLoftus1]

A University of Central Florida commencement speaker was mercilessly booed after telling graduates that AI is the "next Industrial Revolution"

The grads cheered when she said, "Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives"

[Kay Rubacek @KRubacek]

@ShenYun Beautiful!