@swiderman

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author of #thePrimes and more at
http://www.swider.net/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-s-a2b30/
If AI is the future, the future may be short if they keep nuking the world ...
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

New Scientist
There's been one flashing on Earth for a few decades now ...
https://xkcd.com/3096/
Check Engine

xkcd
What #Trump is doing to US is inexplicable on its face. There's no "savings," no logic to killing programs, tariffs tanking economy+his ratings. Either it's prelude to dictatorship, insanity or a kind of short selling cum insider trading: trash all then buy on cheap. Pick 'em
“MyTerms” wants to become the new way we dictate our privacy on the web

It’s not a “do not track” request, it’s a set of terms you demand from sites.

Ars Technica
After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2025/03/after-mass-firings-the-irs-is-poised-to-close-audits-of-wealthy-taxpayers-agents-say/ via @ICIJorg
After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say - ICIJ

The upheaval undermines the agency’s quest to tackle high-end tax cheating.

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
You mean the #AI geniuses have to learn about #GIGO only now? They didn't see it coming? Or was that blindness the plan ...
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global
A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda

An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time

NewsGuard's Reality Check
Millions in Covid relief funds went to shadowy companies registered at a Wyoming storefront that hundreds of thousands of firms used as an address - ICIJ

The least-populated U.S. state has attracted secretive company formations, fraud indictments and questionable fortunes from around the world.

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Republicans let #Trump/#Musk/#Vance run roughshod over democracy because they think they can profit and fear resistance would cost position. The more the triumverate conquers, tho, the less it needs other pols. So endgame is superfluousness under a king ... or jail when he fails
This is designed to outrage and to inspire a terrorist attack that would allow Trump to declare martial law. Then *all* bets are off
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5309695/trump-gaza-video
this use of AI to dispel conspiracies is interesting and hopeful, but what happens when the AI is trained on conspiracies? which is already happening
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/26/ai-research-conspiracy-theories/
Finally, something is puncturing conspiracy theories

Researchers have long struggled to combat conspiracy theories. Artificial Intelligence offers hope. 

The Washington Post