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

From elsewhere — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:19:11 +0000

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

From elsewhere — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:18:56 +0000

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.

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

From elsewhere — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:18:36 +0000

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

From elsewhere — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:18:20 +0000

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

From elsewhere — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:18:06 +0000

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

From elsewhere — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:17:52 +0000

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

From elsewhere — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:17:38 +0000

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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Music: Erik Truffaz — ‘Istanbul tango’

From elsewhere — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:17:05 +0000

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Donald Trump’s blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms

From elsewhere — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:05:02 +0000

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

From elsewhere — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:04:47 +0000

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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