In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he'd used it. He nodded.
"You type in the question… like 'How can I build a bomb?', and then it tells you how. It is like a human robot. We used it a lot."
My new study on how the jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI with @CamAISciPolicy, covered today in @nytimes 🧵/9
Five new Qadis, judges of Islamic law, were sworn in to serve in Israel’s Sharia courts during a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem today. I was especially moved as the second female Qadi in Israel's history, Rula Masalha-Zahalka, was sworn in. Mabrouk!
I ran a Tinder Experiment as a 28 Sugar Daddy Alexandr Wang who runs his own startup
used some bad pics just to prove that money matters
Within hours, my DM's were being flooded by prime college aged baddies in need of funds. Most of them agreed to go on a date for $200-300 ppm but remember folks money doesn't matter
Every girl was legitimately a 10/10 and these were not even the best looking ones
Ran this shit for a day, results are shocking imo. Money beats out Looks when it comes to dating in 2026
This reminds me of the finding that China's public officials are so corrupt that, after they launched a nationwide anti-corruption initiative, they literally became skinnier.
Why? Because corrupt officials were using public funds to eat and drink excessively!
@policytensor I once read a similar idea that points causation in the other direction. Essentially, the introduction of capital punishment thousands of years ago trimmed of the most aggressive and high-T members of society