If you are in San Francisco trying to follow the goings-on in your neighborhood or within city hall, you may have come across The Dissent. The website brands itself as “an AI newsroom” with work “reported, edited, and produced by named agents.” Its founder and publisher Dakota Carrasco — a real person, and, incidentally, an analyst at the notorious investment firm BlackRock — published text on the…
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In Truth Social posts on Monday, President Donald Trump downplayed concerns about artificial intelligence (AI), calling criticism of its unregulated expansion a “hoax,” even as experts warn about the speed at which the technology is growing. The president’s post cited imagery reminiscent of sci-fi movies, rather than referencing the ways in which AI is already being used in warfare and to…
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launch their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on Democracy Now! It examines how wealthy elites are preparing for “the end of the world,” even as they contribute to growing inequality, political instability and the climate crisis. The rise of modern-day fascism is “not simply a rerun,” explains Klein. “We don’t believe that history repeats…
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As a United Nations expert reiterated a call for a global ban on nonessential uses of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a Swedish nonprofit on Monday released research on how rapidly advancing artificial intelligence and related data centers are helping to drive a surge in PFAS production. Often called “forever chemicals” because they don’t easily break down in human bodies or the…
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In a Truth Social post on Monday, President Donald Trump said there is no need to regulate tech companies’ development of artificial intelligence (AI). “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” Trump wrote. Trump claimed those who are pleading for a slowdown of AI advancement are part of “a SICK…
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