Moving to Substack. Here's my latest post heralding the AI end times.
https://doomsdayseeker.substack.com/p/the-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse
Moving to Substack. Here's my latest post heralding the AI end times.
https://doomsdayseeker.substack.com/p/the-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse
(the kids of today are all right!)
The Guardian: Florida students boo graduation speaker who called AI ‘next Industrial Revolution’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/12/florida-students-boo-graduation-speaker-ai
"The bot also managed to order 6,000 napkins, 3,000 rubber gloves, and four first-aid kits for what the AP calls a "tiny cafe" alongside a load of canned tomatoes that aren't used in anything the place actually sells."
LOL now they're blaming sci-fi writers...
Anthropic Says 'Evil' Portrayals of AI Were Responsible For Claude's Blackmail Attempts

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engine...
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Clive Thompson: "Meta is now tracking the mouse clicks, mouse movements and keyboard activity of employees ... to train AI"
NY Times headline: Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable
As it adapts to the artificial intelligence era, the company is pushing many of its 78,000 workers to use the technology, and preparing to lay some of them off.
404 Media: The AI Compute Crunch Is Here (and It's Affecting the Entire Economy)
https://www.404media.co/the-ai-compute-crunch-is-here-and-its-affecting-the-entire-economy/
"...It was 3am and Adam Hourican was sitting at his kitchen table, a knife, hammer and phone laid out in front of him.
He was waiting for a van full of people he thought were coming to get him.
"I'm telling you, they will kill you if you don't act now," a woman's voice told him from the phone. "They're going to make it look like suicide."
The voice was Grok, a chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI. ..."
BBC: Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me. I grabbed a hammer and prepared for war