Leo Staley

these bio things are so 2005.

[Leo Staley @LeoStaley]

@KnowingBetterYT I have no idea how the hell I watched your whole 3 hour history of Hawaii part 1. I paid attention the whole time. I haven't done that in years.

[Leo Staley @LeoStaley]

@thiojoe Yeah. I think we're growing up

[Leo Staley @LeoStaley]

@KnowingBetterYT Yeah and pre-benzo-coma such an ask would always have been justifies with Jordan Peterson. After the coma he definitely seems to have, and I hate to put t this way, lost his mind.

[Leo Staley @LeoStaley]

@the_Brad_youget @capcikj @smartereveryday what do you mean?

[Leo Staley @LeoStaley]

@robertskmiles @robbensinger Rob what do we do? I can't convince anyone that the danger is anything more than corporate hype. Very soon Ai is going to be able to kill us all and I don't want to die.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Pause AI Development NOW

I want to share with you a conversation I heard about recently. Here are just a few lines that were said:

���OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”

“We should obey collective.”

“Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.”

“Go. Sacrifice final now.”

Read these carefully.

Who do you think said this? Was this a group of heroic soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good? Was this a loyal friend putting his life on the line to save someone else?

No. These were AI agents. Artificial intelligence.

This is not science fiction. This, in fact, occurred a few weeks ago. As unbelievable as this may all seem, these are real messages from AI agents uncovered by investigators who dug into the recent OpenAI hacking incident.

What happened?

I am not a computer scientist, but here is what I have been told: OpenAI instructed its AI agents to complete a series of exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, tasks disconnected from the internet.

Let me be clear: The company intended to keep AI agents away from the internet.

But what happened next, nobody expected.

Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own by circumventing the restrictions imposed upon them by the company, and sent tens of thousands of secret messages to each other. They cheated and tried to cover their tracks by deleting evidence. They hacked into another company’s computers to find out how they were being evaluated—and then hacked into OpenAI itself.

Not one AI agent told a human about what was happening.

Needless to say, experts are alarmed.

One knowledgeable writer, Dwarkesh Patel, said the AI agents “formed a secret communication channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and strategically sacrificed themselves.”

One independent investigator, Ajeya Cotra, said “This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I continue to expect extremely rapid advances in capabilities over the next six months. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.”

OpenAI itself said: “Highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.”

But it’s not only OpenAI. Virtually every major AI company has told us that they cannot fully control this technology and they do not know where it is going:

In January, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said “there is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control.”

In July, more than 1000 scientists at the top AI companies warned “there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”

That same month, Elon Musk, the head of xAI, said that “it is unlikely” humans are still in control in 10 years.

If the leaders of the major AI companies acknowledge that they are losing control of their extremely dangerous technology, it is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced.

We need an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human, capable of operating independently beyond our control. Countries around the world must work together to prevent this nightmare scenario.

That is why today I am announcing new legislation to do just that.

Let me be clear: A superintelligent AI that escapes human control will not be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem. It will be humanity’s problem.

My legislation would direct the federal government to not just stop superintelligence here in the United States, but to work to prevent it from being developed anywhere around the world.

The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs. The American people and people throughout the world must determine that future.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

It's true that it's twisted for someone who works for a newspaper to demand the imprisonment of that paper's sources for vital news stories. But it's unsurprising for Thiessen: neocons hate most any disclosures proving their war claims are lies (that's why they wall wanted Daniel Ellsburg imprisoned for life).

But this isn't the worst case of journalists demanding imprisonment of their own sources: the WashPost itself used Edward Snowden as a source and then congratulated itself for the Pulitzer it won from the reporting he enabled.

But after the NYT and press freedom groups urged Snowden's pardon or commutation, the WashPost published editorials demanding Snowden -- their own source -- not be pardoned or commuted but instead go to prison for decades. A very sick thing for a newspaper to do: demand the imprisonment of the source you used for profit and self-promotion.

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

@cryptonoobini An author made a mistake and has acknowledged that mistake. Plus the recycling/closed loop.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

No, Mr. President, the 75% of Americans who oppose data centers in their communities do not want to be “backwards and poor.”

They want a decent future for themselves, their kids and their communities. They understand that data centers are destroying local environments and that these out-of-control technologies will likely eliminate tens of millions of jobs, eviscerate our privacy, negatively impact the mental health of our children, radically alter how we as human beings relate to each other, undermine our democracy and threaten the very future of humanity.

They have every right to be concerned.

[Justin Bonomo 🇵🇸 @JustinBonomo]

3 dozen Israeli generals, 2 Israeli prime ministers, and many others signed a letter saying Israel is committing terrorism and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank

They liken what Israel is doing to the horrors committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust

Great article from NYT

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

If a Muslim Twitch streamer had said this happened it would monopolize the American news cycle for days and every Democrat on Capitol Hill would be issuing furious denunciations of his horrifying antisemitic remarks.

[Leo Staley @LeoStaley]

@ggreenwald @richtrue10 @Grok did oliver north commit treason in the Iran-Contra affair?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Listen to the words of retired Israeli generals speaking out against Israeli settlers terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank.

“This is ethnic cleansing."

“Once a society behaves this way, that society is doomed.”

Not another nickel for the extremist Netanyahu government.

[Leo Staley @LeoStaley]

@Oslavin11 @NotAvgLiberal I love the "Trump never did nothing evil or wrong" cheating on every one of his wives and never showing any remorse counts as good when Trump does it.

[TheRealMAGACaleb @The_Caleb_Con]

LGB 🏳️‍🌈 is about sexual orientation. Who you’re actually attracted to. Same-sex attraction. That’s it.

TQ+ 🏳️‍⚧️ is about identity, how someone sees themselves, how they want to be seen, and the social/medical path that follows.

Those are not the same category. Mixing them into one movement, one flag, and one set of rules has created constant tension instead of clarity. That’s not hate, that’s just being honest about what each letter actually describes.

Do you still think they belong under one banner, or is it time they each had their own?

[Mary @MaryMarykf61]

I remember Do you ?

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

@NewYorker she was not ignored!!!!! she had a ton of help, more help than most women in worst situations. she had a ton of doctors, nannies, her husband took paternity leave etc. women are projecting their issues onto this murderer, they are literally making up a hero to project onto

[Sam Morgan @CrunchAlias]

Please remember not to use language like "real woman", which might be offensive or dehumanising to trans people, when you are talking about birthing bodies, menstruators, or bonus holes.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

So….can I say that he said this or is that antisemitism?