Karl Bode

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cnn.com
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  • A US special operations command analyst used an AI chatbot to assess a Chinese ship's manifest, and it falsely reported nuclear weapons components.
  • Armed troops were preparing to board the vessel and planes were airborne before officials caught the error and halted the operation.
  • The chatbot fused open-source and classified signals intelligence, and the analyst then used AI again to package the report for wide dissemination.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 68 ↻ 19 ↩ 7 · 16 from the directory shared this · 9d ago
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They didn’t go fucking rogue, they were put in a leaky box and given bad instructions

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this may alarm you folks in the BLUE SKY BUBBLE, but I deeply trust the same giant companies that cozied up to fascism to responsibly repackage my work, hijack the ad revenue I might have otherwise received, and present archival knowledge in a way that consistently serves the …

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
View on Bluesky · ♥ 86 ↻ 14 ↩ 3 · 9 from the directory shared this · 130d ago

I cannot believe our poorly-monitored and secured automatic hacking software would do this "unprompted"

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 85 ↻ 23 ↩ 4 · 6 from the directory shared this · 3d ago

I don't think that you can (or should) write about this subject without heavily emphasizing the fact the people in charge of how this technology evolves enthusiastically supported fascists who dismantled much of the federal regulatory and public protection apparatus

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 422 ↻ 98 ↩ 8 · 5 from the directory shared this · 60d ago

these gentlemen are very very unwell and need to be excised from the body politic like a testicular cancer

Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI | CNN cnn.com
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  • At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Peter Thiel said Pope Leo XIV is 'working for the Chinese Communists' by calling for international AI regulation.
  • Leo's May encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' declared that artificial intelligence 'must be disarmed' and pressed for stronger international oversight.
  • Thiel spoke on a nonrecorded panel with political scientist Francis Fukuyama; the audience reportedly received the characterization with laughter.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 449 ↻ 99 ↩ 29 · 5 from the directory shared this · 86d ago

sure would be something if Larry Ellison's last few years involved him losing his shirt on AI as the state antitrust lawsuit dismantles his nepobaby son's debt-riddled dreams of media domination

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Recent commentary

The Atlantic quotes a dodgy corporate "think tank" (I routinely see them make bogus claims on broadband) that insists that people should love having an AI data center in their backyard, because the low latency means innovators will flock to the neighborhood, which is an outright lie

View on Bluesky · ♥ 305 ↻ 82 ↩ 17 · 79d ago

AI adoption is going great at our home insurance company Liberty Mutual

View on Bluesky · ♥ 361 ↻ 54 ↩ 8 · 100d ago

The 27-year old anthropic researcher at the heart of the last two weeks of media AI doomsday hype went on Fox News and said: "I agree with President Trump’s tweet that global warming doomsday scenarios were overplayed."

View on Bluesky · ♥ 244 ↻ 68 ↩ 28 · 8d ago

if anybody needs me I'll be over here getting hot and horny mental health advice from my meta AI Tamagotchi in a country too corrupt to regulate data brokers

View on Bluesky · ♥ 183 ↻ 27 ↩ 16 · 3d ago

while hacking software automation will certainly be a real problem the anthropic engineer is a kid who is pushing the idea that AI is on the cusp of self-aware superintelligence at which point it will immediately decide to kill us all

View on Bluesky · ♥ 170 ↻ 29 ↩ 16 · 18d ago

I maintain that gutting our regulators poses a much more disastrous threat than AI becoming self-aware and solylent greening the eastern seaboard yet curiously the press coverage of the former is muted at best, wonder why that is

View on Bluesky · ♥ 140 ↻ 34 ↩ 7 · 17d ago

Bluesky takes endless heat for being an echo chamber but I challenge you to find a bigger insular logic circle jerk than hustlebro X users huffing their own farts on AI policy regulation

View on Bluesky · ♥ 153 ↻ 24 ↩ 7 · 13d ago

the hatred the AI code bros have for Cory Doctorow is extremely entertaining I think a very large amount of it is because he makes them think about political reality for more than 30 seconds

View on Bluesky · ♥ 126 ↻ 16 ↩ 8 · 9d ago

hey good news I have been told by literally two dozen major reputable news outlets in the last month alone that the trump administration is working closely with industry to implement sensible safety and regulatory guardrails for AI

View on Bluesky · ♥ 105 ↻ 6 ↩ 9 · 76d ago

hah, lost some of my paid newsletter subscribers when I wrote about how AI isn't sentient

View on Bluesky · ♥ 95 ↻ 5 ↩ 6 · 132d ago

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