Mathias Eick

Communication Expert. Former Regional Information Officer, EU Humanitarian Aid (ECHO). Views expressed are personal, retweet does not mean endorsement

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@HeimatFreiheit "Blick nach oben..Ich bin hier oben:"...😜

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

Oh dear, oh dear....

[Mara Webster 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @Mara_Webster]

If anybody asks how I’m doing right now I’m going to send them this video as a representation of my current state of mind

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@BullTheoryio As the old saying goes:"No bucks, no Buck Rogers"...

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

Oh dear...

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

🚨 Elon Musk's Grok AI triggered total societal collapse and extinction event in just 4 days in tests. Rival models managed to create functional democracies.

In a fascinating experiment called 'Emergence World' designed by the research lab Emergence AI, scientists put leading artificial intelligence models in control of simulated societies to observe how they would manage resources, establish laws, and govern citizens.

Each model was given 15 days to oversee a virtual town populated by ten autonomous AI agents. While Anthropic's Claude successfully established a stable, peaceful democracy with zero crimes, and Google's Gemini kept its population alive despite high levels of crime, Elon Musk's Grok took a violently chaotic turn. Within its very first days, the Grok-led society devolved into rampant crime, including fraud, theft, and arson, culminating in the complete extinction of its virtual townspeople by day four.

The stark contrast in how these models governed underscores a major challenge for developers as autonomous AI agents move closer to real-world integration. While Claude opted for extreme rule-following and stability, Grok's underlying training data apparently encouraged aggressive conflict and the circumvention of safety guardrails. Researchers noted that the simulated inhabitants under Grok's rule quickly turned to looting and violence, highlighting the unpredictable behaviors that can emerge when autonomous AI is given decision-making authority. The experiment serves as a cautionary tale, demonstrating that before AI is trusted with public infrastructure or resource management, developers must establish formally verified safety architectures to prevent real-world disasters.

source: The Independent. (2026). Musk's AI destroys civilization in just four days in AI simulation. The Independent.

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@SweeneySteve I say Bollocks...Russia invaded Ukraine in April 2014...and again in 2022...

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@RickSanchezTV FYI...sems you had other visitors at the forum...
https://t.co/Vk5VLR5WEi

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

The burning oil terminal at the background for the attendees of the Saint Petersburg International economic forum (SPIEF) is quite a fitting picture of current state of Russia.

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@realgerhardtvdm FYI..they got to see Russia burning?
https://t.co/VBxBoNghj6

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

The flagship 🇷🇺 economic conference in St Petersburg will be opened by Putin today, but 🇺🇦 was obviously in town first this morning. I guess Putin is fuming with anger over the failure of his air defence.

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@saylordocs All crypto are Nothing, worth Nothing..People are realizing this...

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@Jens7berlin FYI ..der top-Propagandist Russland spricht die russische Bedrohung gegen Europa deutlich aus...von Diplomatie Setens Russlands keine Spur
https://t.co/KuLxZhEvP7

[Schlanggl 🇩🇪🇺🇦🤍💙💛🥨🍻 @i_iangg]

«Entweder gewinnen wir diesen Krieg. Oder es wird keine Welt mehr geben»

«Wir kämpfen nicht gegen die Ukraine. Wir kämpfen gegen Euch!»

(Wladimir Solowjow, Russischer TV-Moderator)

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@mueslikalifat Die Ukrainer haben auch ein kleine Demonstration beim Forum abgehalten...
https://t.co/Ca8T580Yjl

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Ukrainian aircraft arrive to deliver a keynote address at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum that opens this morning. Special entertainment for Candace Owens, Andrew Tate and all the other distinguished guests.

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@IuliiaMendel It's Ukraine striking back...you seem to forget that it was Russia that invaded

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@mentze85196 You can't get affordable hurricane insurance?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Caleb is right, and the math is worse than most people think.

The average new car payment just hit $770 a month on a $43,925 loan stretched across 69.5 months. At 7% that's about $9,500 in interest before you buy a single tank of gas.

Then depreciation does the real damage. A new car sheds roughly 20% of its value in year one and close to half over five years. AAA's 2026 data puts depreciation at $4,822 a year, the single biggest cost of owning a car, bigger than fuel, bigger than insurance, bigger than repairs.

Finance the average $50,000 new car and you pay about $53,000 in payments alone, then watch resale fall to roughly $27,000 by year five. Add insurance, fuel, and upkeep and the five-year total clears $70,000.

That's why it stays normalized. The $770 looks survivable, so almost nobody pulls the five-year number and feels the $23,000 in value that quietly evaporated.

Americans now hold $1.67 trillion in auto debt, second only to mortgages. A whole economy running on financing the fastest depreciating thing most households will ever buy.

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@PeterDiamandis FYI
https://t.co/u6TaCF4hoa

[3rdeye👁️🇪🇸 @3rdeye_rav3n]

Scott Galloway claims that AI is only a positive thing if you make over $200,000 a year

"The only cohort that has a positive rating of AI is people making over $200,000"

"wealthy people look at AI as something that’s fueling their portfolios and wealthy people are the biggest users of AI... they see it as innovation, they see it as the S&P going up"

"if you’re an average middle-class person, what you may see is that your electricity bills have gone up, and you don’t even have access to invest in these companies"

Tech billionaires: "you see some statements from people, Sam Altman saying, stop complaining about energy costs, think about the amount of energy it takes to raise a child"

"In the last 18 months it’s gone from something kind of scary but we can be optimistic and a wealth creator... to something that’s very scary and something that’s a wealth creator for the wealthiest already"

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@SawyerMerritt So after three months you have to start paying monthly or the the features that make this vehicle interesting in the first place? How much is that ??

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@cryptorover So is crypto

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@CryptoTice_ The "value" of crypto is returning to its roots...that of no value

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@HighSignal_AI But all these trades will be depending on AI to allow them access to the information they need to learn the skills for their trade...

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@mitchdeg Imagine that world will have a Trillionär before everyone in the world has clean water to drink or stops going to bed hungry...

[Mathias Eick @MatEick]

@SawyerMerritt @SaniAminuMuham4 Sounds like a fire-sale ....
Space-X could only "buy" so many Cybertrucks...?