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Multiple warnings from AI industry insiders: ‘AI could kill all humans!’

Multiple warnings from AI industry insiders: ‘AI could kill all humans!’

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI): AI Alignment means making sure an AI system’s goals and behavior match what people actually want—our values, rules, and intentions. It’s about getting the AI to do the “right thing” even in new situations, not just follow instructions literally in ways that cause harm. In practice, it includes preventing unwanted outcomes like deception, unsafe shortcuts, or optimizing a metric that misses the real objective. Jacob Coxon, a researcher who resigned from Anthropic yesterday, tweeted:…

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‘We might not have much time’: AI expert warns about the risk of humans losing control

‘We might not have much time’: AI expert warns about the risk of humans losing control

  Jeffrey Ladish consulted on security for AI giant Anthropic. Now as Executive Director at Palisade Research he tests AI agents and the risk of humans losing control. This interview examines how AI agents are sometimes doing the opposite of what humans are instructing them to do. He shares his experience of working on Anthropic’s security team and shares his fears of what could happen in the future.

Oil’s rise past $100 per barrel deepens GOP’s midterm elections challenge

Oil’s rise past $100 per barrel deepens GOP’s midterm elections challenge

The Washington Post reports: As Republicans gather with President Donald Trump in Dallas this week in an effort to boost their sagging midterm elections prospects, their political challenges mounted with an ominous number flashing across financial terminals and news sites: $100. Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, crossed that threshold Wednesday amid fresh fighting in Iran, dimming the GOP’s hopes that the high gas prices driving voter frustration would ease before ballots are cast. The elevated oil price is…

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Profiteer-in-Chief: Trump has made millions from war in Iran as oil investments rose

Profiteer-in-Chief: Trump has made millions from war in Iran as oil investments rose

CNBC reports: As President Donald Trump’s wartime directives in Iran repeatedly jolted global markets, his personal energy portfolio surged. Throughout the first six months of fighting, Trump’s investment accounts continued aggressively trading energy stocks. Between the eve of the war, on Feb. 27, and Aug. 31, his nine largest oil and gas holdings gained approximately $1.5 million to $4.4 million, according to a CNBC analysis of his annual financial disclosure, quarterly corporate reports and FactSet market data. CNBC identified the…

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Senior UK rabbis come out in support of sanctions on Israeli settlements

Senior UK rabbis come out in support of sanctions on Israeli settlements

The Guardian reports: Prominent British rabbis have backed Ed Miliband’s sanctions on Israeli settlements, warning that the time for inaction on settler violence must come to an end. The intervention comes after the UK’s chief rabbi, the spiritual leader of mainstream Orthodox Jews in the UK, Sir Ephraim Mirvis, described UK sanctions against illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as a “dark day for British Jews” and warned they could embolden people who “use hatred as a weapon…

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Cognitive biases and emotional triggers make AI-generated images highly deceptive

Cognitive biases and emotional triggers make AI-generated images highly deceptive

PsyPost reports: Emotionally charged AI-generated images may encourage social media users to respond before they critically assess whether the images are real, according to a study published in Computers in Human Behavior. AI-generated images can now be produced quickly and cheaply, making it possible to create large amounts of realistic-looking material for social media. Some images are paired with emotional captions and distributed through networks of automated pages or content farms that seek attention, advertising revenue or user interaction. Images…

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The moon may have formed in just five hours, new simulations suggest

The moon may have formed in just five hours, new simulations suggest

Live Science reports: The moon may have formed in as few as five hours after the cataclysmic collision between Earth and a long-lost protoplanet, new simulations suggest. The surprising findings could help shed light on other historic impacts throughout our cosmic neighborhood and beyond. Experts strongly suspect that the moon was created when a Mars-size space rock called Theia smashed into an early version of our planet, back when the solar system was young and extremely unstable. This colossal impact…

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Donald Trump’s blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms

Donald Trump’s blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms

Marc Elias writes: We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime. Ballots have already started to be sent out. The threats to free and fair elections are real and growing more serious by the day. What once seemed like an abstract threat has now become concrete. The risk of a rigged election is no longer unthinkable. The need for action can no longer be delayed or denied. I have often said…

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UK accuses Israeli ‘terrorists’ of ethnic cleansing in West Bank with government backing

UK accuses Israeli ‘terrorists’ of ethnic cleansing in West Bank with government backing

The Guardian reports: Israeli “terrorists” are conducting ethnic cleansing in the West Bank with the tacit backing of the government, the UK foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, has said as he announced sweeping sanctions, alongside France and Canada, on trade with Israeli settlements. In the strongest condemnation ever issued by the UK government, Miliband said the government would now take the official position that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank was unlawful in its entirety, saying such acknowledgment was “the least…

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Netanyahu was warned of October 7 Hamas attacks, book claims

Netanyahu was warned of October 7 Hamas attacks, book claims

The Guardian reports: Benjamin Netanyahu was personally alerted by the president of the United Arab Emirates that Hamas was planning a large-scale offensive against Israel a week before its 7 October 2023 attack, but did not act on the warning, according to a book by Haaretz reporters. The claim, which comes amid a crucial election campaign, prompted Israeli opposition leaders to describe the prime minister as “unfit” for office, even as Netanyahu denounced the report as an “absolute lie” and…

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The Pentagon asked OpenAI for artificial intelligence designed to rarely say no

The Pentagon asked OpenAI for artificial intelligence designed to rarely say no

The Intercept reports: The Department of Defense asked OpenAI to provide the U.S. military with a special version of its artificial intelligence technology designed to turn down the military commands as infrequently as possible, according to documents obtained by The Intercept. The desire for a custom AI tool with “minimal refusal rates” to Pentagon commands was revealed in files released to The Intercept as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking information about the military’s secretive deals with…

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Elon Musk told ex-girlfriend he needed ‘a legion of children before the civil war’

Elon Musk told ex-girlfriend he needed ‘a legion of children before the civil war’

The Guardian reports: Elon Musk is sowing “deliberate division” via his social media platform X that will be catastrophic unless regulated, the mother of one of the 14 confirmed children fathered by the world’s richest man has warned. In Musk, a new documentary by veteran film-maker Alex Gibney, former Maga influencer Ashley St Clair says Musk told her in a text message he wanted to have a child with her because he needed to have “a legion of children before…

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The more we humanize AI, the more we will dehumanize each other

The more we humanize AI, the more we will dehumanize each other

David Brooks writes: As we learn to think more and more highly of the bots, I suspect we will learn to think less and less highly of our fellow humans. Over the past few years, Hye-young Kim and Ann L. McGill have been studying what happens when people attribute human traits to AI. As people do this, Kim and McGill have found, they are more likely to dehumanize their fellow humans. For example, they are more likely to approve of…

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Why humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon

Why humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon

Kai Williams writes: Just last week, at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, a robot ran 100 meters in 8.86 seconds, crushing Usain Bolt’s human world record of 9.59 seconds. At last year’s competition, the fastest robot took more than 20 seconds to run 100 meters. Demonstrations like these have impressed a lot of casual observers — and created a lot of anxiety about future job losses. If humanoid robots can already serve people drinks, perform elaborate dance…

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