Matt Wunsch

🏳️‍🌈 Weather is my passion. UAlbany Alumni. Stony Brook Alumni. NWS New York NY Meteorologist | Opinions are my own

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

NYT now confirms it.

He knew about Oct 7.

He stood down IDF posts.

He moved a festival of kids a mile from the unmanned IDF line.

He slaughtered his own people to justify slaughtering 100 times more Palestinians.

It was all by design.

An evil beyond imagination

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

I AM GOING TO FREAK OUT AND HAVE A HEART ATTACK IF THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE STARTS TALKING ABOUT FORGIVENESS AND PARDONS TO UNIFY AMERICA 🤬😠
THE ONLY POSSIBLE WAY FOR AMERICA TO SAVE FACE IS BY LOCKING UP EVERY REPUBLICAN TRAITOR AND ESPECIALLY THE TRUMPS 💯

[⋆˚✿˖° @frjnyc]

CNN got the extended version of the much propagandized clip of @AOC & @NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani & it demolishes all the bad faith attacks. Extended footage shows Zohran standing in somber mood before AOC comes. They exchange greetings & return to somber mood thereafter.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

So this is the entire video and holy shit this is nothing

[Grant Certiorari @GrantCertiorari]

Conservatives stop being "pro life" as soon as the child is actually born.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

New York City, 25 years later

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers.

As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other. Let us remember the extraordinary compassion, resilience and bravery that carried our city through its darkest
day.

Today, New York remembers. We will Never Forget.

[Tom Bibby @tombibbys]

It seems there are lot of people learning about the AI extinction threat for the first time today, so here are a few things to know:

- yes, AI company employees really do believe what they're building could kill everyone
- I don't know why they're continuing to race either
- their beliefs predate the formation of their companies, it is not marketing
- the most cited experts agree with them
- the average AI researcher in 2023 said there was a 19% chance of human extinction
- AI capabilities are growing exponentially, and on some benchmarks are doubling every 5 months
- we really may be a couple of years away from superintelligence (AI that's better than all humans at everything)
- we have nothing approaching a solid plan to ensure superintelligence acts in the interests of humanity
- AI companies are on record admitting that
- politicians have still done basically nothing to stop these reckless idiots
- your family will probably be killed if AI companies are not stopped
- we have one way out of this mess, and that's a global ban on superintelligence
- such a ban can be enforced by going after large clusters of compute (without which frontier models cannot be developed)
- again, if we don't put this in place soon your family will probably be killed
- there is so much you can do to help (inform lawmakers, tell your friends and family, join protests)
- and there is still a shockingly low number of people doing anything to ban superintelligence, so one extra person really does make a huge difference
- this is real. this will not just go away. this cannot be ignored. this is the single biggest threat to your life.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[ADAM @adamemedia]

The Parody Jeff account has just been suspended after forcing Grok to admit that Israel is committing genocide.

[5hahem @shaTIRED]

I want every single politician loyal to another country to be charged with treason and thrown in prison for the rest of their lives

[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.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

The craziest part about Donald Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America is that he raped kids with Jeffrey Epstein.

[Covie @covie_93]

-It is still Lake Ontario
-It is still the Gulf of Mexico
-It is still the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
-He is still a pedophile.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Ahmed Eldin | أحمد الدين @aseisfree]

Every single red square represents a member of Congress bought by @AIPAC. Are you still worried about Shariah law?

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

🤦‍♂️The FBI gave her the bomb and the gun and the funds to spend at Home Depot. The government literally encouraged and enabled this terrorist plot in order to foil it. One day they’ll have to admit this how the J5/J6 pipe bomb happened as well. H/T @KyleSeraphin

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Joe Biden had a bad debate. Approximately 765 stories and opinion pieces in the NYTimes.

Donald Trump had 300 bank accounts closed because of evidence of money laundering. Nothing to see here, says the same NYTimes.

[ً @artfuIchaos]

can’t believe it’s already August. time flies when you live life on survival mode and work everyday of your fucking life.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

it’s time to unite to defeat the republicans. we need a senate majority to begin the defensive posture against trumps growing fascism & unprecedented corruption. jobs not done.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Money out of politics.
Money in your pocket.
Medicare for All.

Michigan...

We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.