Capitulating to AI: How humanity might surrender to machine rule

Capitulating to AI: How humanity might surrender to machine rule

Ruxandra Teslo writes: [W]hat is striking about current discussions around AI risks is that they return to one dominant fear: that humanity might summon into existence a power whose capacities exceed its comprehension, and discover, too late, that it cannot control it. In this vision of the world, AI would essentially take over the world and after that, potentially destroy humanity. Although I do not regard such fears as frivolous, my own anxiety concerns the rather less spectacular way humans…

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In California, three quarters of voters view AI as a threat

In California, three quarters of voters view AI as a threat

Politico reports: Even Silicon Valley’s backyard is bracing for a dark AI future. California voters are overwhelmingly pessimistic about AI and believe the rapidly advancing technology poses a serious risk to humanity, according to a new poll by POLITICO and its partners. The anxiety in the hub of the global tech industry cuts across partisan and demographic lines, with voters of different ages and party affiliations expressing remarkably similar concerns about where the technology is headed. “The drumbeat of negativism…

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The existential threat that AI poses to universities

The existential threat that AI poses to universities

The New York Times reports: The worries that artificial intelligence is degrading education have been building for months. Students are using it for everything, including cheating, and a recent report out of M.I.T. said it is triggering “cognitive surrender.” Many university leaders are embracing A.I. with enthusiasm anyway. As A.I. leaders warn about the dangers of their own technology, the dissonance between the optimism of university leaders and the fears of many students and professors may increase. Professors and students…

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The Washington press corps needs to boycott White House events

The Washington press corps needs to boycott White House events

Margaret Sullivan writes: On Monday, the three news organizations that had been kicked out of the White House because of Donald Trump’s latest fit of pique sued the president and three top advisers. An accompanying statement by CNN, MS Now and Politico accurately calls last week’s sudden lockout “a direct assault on the first amendment”. The legal action is the right move, of course, and one that may prevail since the ban seems to be a clear case of what…

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The seven-day lightning offensive by the Houthis that changed Yemen’s war

The seven-day lightning offensive by the Houthis that changed Yemen’s war

Mohammed Al-Qadhi writes: There are moments in Yemen’s long war when the map changes faster than politicians can understand it. The collapse of the western coast this month was one of them. The lightning offensive by Yemen’s Houthi movement and its seizure of key positions around the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden are game changers in the country’s 12-year conflict, fundamentally reshaping the domestic balance of power and bearing consequences that go…

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To bomb, or not to bomb: Trump’s indecisive ‘deciding mode’

To bomb, or not to bomb: Trump’s indecisive ‘deciding mode’

The New York Times reports: For two weeks, the question of whether to yield to pleas from Saudi Arabia and order the U.S. military to strike targets in Yemen controlled by the Iran-backed Houthis has bedeviled President Trump. A decision to go forward could open another front in the war against Iran that Mr. Trump started but has been unable to end as it spreads economic shock around the globe. The president had wavered for weeks over the Saudi appeals…

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How the American revolt against Flock cameras mirrors the Boston Tea Party of 1773

How the American revolt against Flock cameras mirrors the Boston Tea Party of 1773

A license plate recognition camera is seen in Boulder. Colo., on March 5, 2026. Matthew Jonas/MediaNews Group/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images By G. Patrick O’Brien, University of Tampa A grassroots revolt against automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, has gained momentum across the United States. ALPRs are AI-powered cameras that capture images of all passing vehicles. The camera systems turn details into datapoints searchable by anyone with access to the information. Today, there are more than 130,000 ALPRs on…

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Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program

Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program

Reuters reports: Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science. At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet ​lab, or place for physical experiments, in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said. Anthropic has said it wants to unlock treatments for rare diseases, and its biology work has gone beyond…

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Hackers who broke into OpenAI warn the AI industry has a security problem

Hackers who broke into OpenAI warn the AI industry has a security problem

The Washington Post reports: Cybersecurity researchers who broke into ChatGPT maker OpenAI earlier this summer say the artificial intelligence industry is unprepared for the security risks created by the growing power of its own technology. Researchers from computer security start-up Hacktron got inside the company’s systems with help from the Claude chatbot made by OpenAI’s primary rival, Anthropic. After first targeting a public-facing messaging board they were able to access OpenAI’s private systems, including some of the AI company’s internal…

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AI’s flimsy house of cards puts markets and U.S. economy at alarming risk

AI’s flimsy house of cards puts markets and U.S. economy at alarming risk

Bloomberg reports: The heads of America’s leading AI development labs have started a national conversation about tapping the brakes on a technology that’s offering so much promise for society, while at the same time showing it can do a frightening amount of harm. It’s a debate that needs to be had, and a real solution invariably will be hard to come by. But considering the trillions of dollars of investment gains and market value that have been built on the…

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Trump and sons invest heavily in AI economy as he resists calls for slowdown

Trump and sons invest heavily in AI economy as he resists calls for slowdown

The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump’s sprawling family business empire has become increasingly intertwined with the boom in artificial intelligence, at the same time that he has resisted calls to slow the development of the technology, a Washington Post analysis of his financial disclosures and corporate announcements found. Several factors play into Trump’s push for rapid AI development: He has surrounded himself with technology executives and investors who have advocated for the government to accelerate AI development, including venture…

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Tennessee woman falsely charged with bank theft in North Dakota, sues for $10m over AI facial recognition

Tennessee woman falsely charged with bank theft in North Dakota, sues for $10m over AI facial recognition

The Guardian reports: A Tennessee woman who was falsely charged with bank theft in North Dakota and jailed for six months has sued for $10m in damages, alleging in a federal lawsuit that Fargo police improperly relied on an artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system to wrongly accuse her. Angela Lipps, 50, was arrested at gunpoint by US marshals at her home in Tennessee while babysitting her neighbor’s four children in July 2025. The mother of three and grandmother of…

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European spy chiefs warn Moscow is planning more decisive action against NATO

European spy chiefs warn Moscow is planning more decisive action against NATO

The Guardian reports: European intelligence officials have raised the possibility of an imminent Russian test of Nato, with one saying a potential attack could come in a matter of “months, not years”. The warnings come after Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, told parliament that intelligence assessments suggested Russia might launch an attack with drones or missiles on Nato territory in the coming months, as part of efforts to prove that “article 5 is more theoretical than practical”. The French president,…

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U.S. and Denmark reach security deal after Trump’s threats to take over Greenland

U.S. and Denmark reach security deal after Trump’s threats to take over Greenland

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump announced on Friday that the US had struck an Arctic security pact with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland, after threatening for much of his second term to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory by force. The full scope of the deal Trump described as “very important, historic, and special” was not immediately clear. But soon after his announcement in a post on Truth Social, the leaders of Denmark and Greenland issued statements indicating the deal…

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