Vera Cano Falsa

I like mashed potatoes smooth and creamy. If you like chunks in yours, we may have a problem.

[Vera Cano Falsa @PopeMaledictus]

@NickFondacaro And it’s provocative precisely because imprisonment has been naturalized, even though it’s a historical novelty—no #Originalist theorist btw could responsibly defend contemporary mass policing/incarceration; police/prison abolition is a return to a norm, & the mental’s real, too!

[Vera Cano Falsa @PopeMaledictus]

@NickFondacaro The last part of this is why it makes sense she sent him to an asylum by persuading the other reluctant jurors he was incompetent. How is this a read? I have no idea who this woman is, but this stance was/is reasonable. The provocation is that the alternative is also.

[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.

[Vera Cano Falsa @PopeMaledictus]

Storing blood, living forever on Earth, and aggressive door-to-door conversion? The vampire union is definitely filing for trademark infringement this week.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

“The story of Mary is my favorite story in all of scripture…

We only have Jesus because a woman consented to creating him.

The story of Jesus begins with a single, simple, extraordinary act of feminism.”

[Vera Cano Falsa @PopeMaledictus]

https://t.co/w4WaGPtqFJ

[Vera Cano Falsa @PopeMaledictus]

@WhiteHouse Wow. Borders, by definition, are defined and do that very work, and the legal order is and does, too. But who defines “religion,” and how, such that that religion is constitutive of the country?

[Vera Cano Falsa @PopeMaledictus]

*Regarding gender & pronouns, it’s oppressive, under conservative pressures, to feel so constrained by fear & convention to limit creative expression, my vital-fictive manifestation of the worlds within me. But it’s *also* upsetting feel *forced to express* in liberal contexts.

[Vera Cano Falsa @PopeMaledictus]

A common distinction between drag queens and trans women is that between a critical-queer playing with gender as a fiction and an approach that assumes gender’s seriousness and reality. But the essential reality of life is fiction.

[Vera Cano Falsa @PopeMaledictus]

A final footnote: