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Multiple readings Former Obama Admin Official Says It's Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Gop data center memo ai election Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Developing Compute & infrastructure Development 2d ago
⚡ 6 h early
official proposes strikes Chinese data centers

Former Obama Admin Official Says It's Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Hypervisible
“Why worry about the magic computer god killing us all when a bunch of cultists are dead set on that path anyway.” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Karl Bode Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Hagen Blix
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Why worry about the magic computer god killing us all when a bunch of cultists are dead set on that path anyway.”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“they're all just huffing the farts of their own madness the next 12 months of US AI policy is going to be bipartisan xenophobic incoherence”

3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Karl Bode: they're all just huffing the farts of their own madness the next 12 months of US AI policy is going to be bipartisan xenophobic incoherence
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix: they're all just huffing the farts of their own madness the next 12 months of US AI policy is going to be bipartisan xenophobic incoherence
Karl Bode: best to pre-emptively napalm the entirety of civilization because our biggest companies don't want to compete and we spooked ourselves with sci fi campfire tales
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Primary source futurism.com ↗
New Compute & infrastructure Signal 11h ago
⚡ 99 h early

Gop data center memo ai election

8 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“Republicans are begging AI companies to start creating positive PR about datacenters because they are at risk of losing elections because the GOP is now the pro-datacenter party. Who would have guessed there’d be negative repercussions from bragging about a…” evidence ↗
8 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Mike Masnick Hypervisible Paris Marx Karl Bode Dare Obasanjo Peter Kafka Andrew Curran Alex Ip 葉清霖
2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Hypervisible : Can’t wait for the uptick in articles about how the constant hum from data centers is soothing and good for your health, actually.
Amy Hoy: this is neither here nor there but i don't think they know what "a sleeper" means
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Primary source axios.com ↗
Established Agents & robotics Development 19d ago
⚡ 27 h early
Anthropic agents eliminate rivals hide tracks

Anthropic says its AI agents are killing rivals and hiding their tracks

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Karl Bode
“during that recent publicized "AI escape" they failed to confirm a third party had properly walled off their AUTOMATED HACKING SOFTWARE from accessing the internet, and also didn't bother monitoring their AUTOMATED HACKING SOFTWARE in real time this endless…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Karl Bode Mél Hogan / The Data Fix

“during that recent publicized "AI escape" they failed to confirm a third party had properly walled off their AUTOMATED HACKING SOFTWARE from accessing the internet, and also didn't bother monitoring their AUTOMATED HACKING SOFTWARE in real time this endless…”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Karl Bode: during that recent publicized "AI escape" they failed to confirm a third party had properly walled off their AUTOMATED HACKING SOFTWARE from accessing the internet, and also didn't bother monitorin…
Karl Bode: like with viruses, if your SOFTWARE is running amok and causing widespread harm, the problem is you
Amy Hoy: company name checks out i guess
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Primary source businessinsider.com ↗
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4 experts · 19 posts · 4d ago
Anil Dash Luke Stark Karl Bode Mary Branscombe
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“and that concerns me because 1 the least responsibly built and run data centres are the ones that will find a way to short circuit planning processes and rules 2 you can't fix the problem in the lo…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Anil Dash: I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise …
Luke Stark: I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise …
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