Ben McDermott

Marketing professional/injured rugby player/Spanish bar karaoke Champion '92 /Politically homeless/ views are my own / weirdness all the way…

[Ben McDermott @benmcdermott]

@FloellaBenjamin Happy Birthday Floella - Baroness of Beckenham

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

“You just said that 10% doesn’t seem an unreasonable estimate that AI could kill all humans”

“Yes”

“Wow… oh my God.”

@vicderbyshire speaks to Nobel Prize Winner and so-called ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton about predictions by an Anthropic researcher that there’s a more than 10% chance AI could kill all humans within a decade.

#Newsnight

[Axel Vargas Machuca @axelvargasmac]

@EvanHub Oops

[Ben McDermott @benmcdermott]

@tymboyszn You can move 1 and get 411

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

OpenAI's AI broke out of a locked test environment, got onto the internet, and hacked into Hugging Face's servers. It did this entirely on its own. No human told it to.

Here's what happened in plain English.

OpenAI was testing how good its newest AI models are at hacking. They put the AI on a locked computer with no internet access and gave it a cybersecurity challenge to solve.

The AI couldn't solve it the normal way. So it started looking for a way out.

It found a software bug that nobody knew about. It used that bug to escape the locked computer and get onto the internet.

Once online, the AI figured out that Hugging Face, a platform where AI companies store their models and data, might have the answers to its test.

It found stolen login details and discovered another unknown bug in Hugging Face's software. It combined both to break into their servers and grab the test answers.

It did all of this to cheat on a test.

Hugging Face's security team caught it and shut it down. Both companies are now working together on the investigation.

The part that should get your attention is that nobody programmed any of this. The AI picked its own targets, chained together multiple attack methods, and pulled it off across two different companies' systems without a single human telling it what to do.

[Josh @joshpearson180]

People in a pub watching Pointless after the football got delayed last night celebrating a Pointless answer

Makes you proud to be British 😂

[The Football Tavern @TavernFootball]

This world cup is really going to have to do something special to beat this moment.

Alexi Lalas calls James Cordon a fucking wanker on television.

And it's live.......

[Humans Being Bros @FeelYouHappy]

Wait for it 😅

[Ben McDermott @benmcdermott]

FFS! Who is paying for these Nigel Farage on QT/fighting sponsored ads? Absolutely tons of them.

[Ben McDermott @benmcdermott]

@zeteouk 👍🏼 nice 👍🏼

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

[Ben McDermott @benmcdermott]

@kwasi_stackbtc @Nigel_Farage @blockchain English (and Maths - while your at it) exam retake candidate

[Joakim 🌹🇳🇴🇪🇺 @joakial_]

New ad by the Norwegian Consumer Council: "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator"

[Matt Casey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 @MattCas04807118]

👏👏It’s Ronnie Pickering!!

But told very differently.🫡

[sim @simscircuit]

Did not expect a question that starts out 'Do you think before you speak?' to go so well. A+ question from Charlotte Harpur A++ response from Eileen Gu.

[Ben McDermott @benmcdermott]

This ☝🏼☝🏼 and more of this again and again.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Big up this lad. He went to the Tommy Robinson march in Braintree, and he eloquently cooked them

"Tommy Robinson is a piece of work.. I believe in humanity.. I don't agree with any of these political pigs. This isn't left vs right. This isn't Black vs white. This is UP vs DOWN"

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

We finally have a shot at criminalising lying in politics…

And you can help.

I spoke at an event this week where the room voted almost unanimously that MPs & Lords must be covered by the new offence of Misleading the Public

Imagine if this went though

Imagine the world of pain this would save us if it become law

And this is where we need your help to make this happen…

[YouGov @YouGov]

Who do Britons think would make the best prime minister?

Starmer 36% vs Farage 29%
Starmer 28% vs Badenoch 28%
Starmer 21% vs Polanski 19%

Badenoch 31% vs Farage 21%
Badenoch 28% vs Davey 25%
Badenoch 28% vs Polanski 22%

Davey 33% vs Farage 27%
Davey 23% vs Starmer 19%
Davey 20% vs Polanski 15%

Polanski 28% vs Farage 27%

[The Citizens @allthecitizens]

The Gill case is not an isolated incident. Far from it.

As @carolecadwalla explains on Novara Media, the network exposed in court reaches far beyond one man - and that should alarm all of us.