JZehcuobApr 27

People really, REALLY need to develop a powerful critique of AI and its extremely serious consequences. I even know people in international solidarity NGOs who naively believe that AI can be “responsible”—yet another oxymoron of the capitalist system.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/apr/27/john-oliver-ai-chatbots

#ai #capitalism #technoSolutionism #humanobsolescence #chatbots #aichatbots

John Oliver on AI chatbots: ‘Behind that machine is a corporation trying to extract a monthly fee from you’

The Last Week Tonight host dug into the many issues with AI chatbots released on the public without proper safety guardrails, from sycophancy to sexualizing children

The Guardian
JZehcuobApr 19
The beginning of the end for us? Imagine when breakthoughs in robotics will catch up with AI... We must do everything we can to avoid that.
A Chinese android just ran a half-marathon faster than any human ever | CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/19/china/china-robot-half-marathon-intl-hnk
#robotics #ai #war #humanobsolescence #humandecline
A Chinese android just ran a half-marathon faster than any human ever

They were trailing behind their human rivals a year ago. But on Sunday, an android outpaced the entire field to run a half-marathon faster than even the quickest human.

CNN
JarOCats™ 🏳️‍🌈Jan 28, 2023

#writers #writing #ai #artificialintelligence #HumanObsolescence

"In the memo, [CEO Jonah Peretti] claimed human content creators will continue to be the main architects of the site's copy as they provide ideas, 'social currency,' and 'inspired prompts' for the algorithms. Peretti added, somewhat creepily, that in the next 15 years, he expects AI to 'create, personalize, and animate the content itself.'"

#BuzzFeed Announces Plans to Use #OpenAI to Churn Out Content
https://futurism.com/the-byte/buzzfeed-announces-openai-content

BuzzFeed Announces Plans to Use OpenAI to Churn Out Content

Fresh off the heels of CNET being outed for using AI to write articles, BuzzFeed has announced that its content machine will soon be assisted by OpenAI.

Futurism