Saeed Ismail is a real person. But no matter how much proof he posts online, people keep calling him fake. The 22-year-old has endured almost two years of war in Gaza, as Israel continues an assault that has killed at least 57,000 people and left the territory of 2 million on the brink of starvation. […]
Eric Schmidt Suggests Countries Could Engage in Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM)
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang are co-authors on a new paper called “Superintelligence Strategy” that warns against the U.S. government creating a Manhattan Project for so-called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) because it could quickly get out of control around the world. The gist of the argument is that the […]
Trump Says New Tech Will Make Reagan’s Star Wars a Reality
President Donald Trump wants to make Ronald Reagan’s long-ridiculed Star Wars missile defense program from the 1980s a reality. And he insists new tech can finally make it happen. Trump gave a rambling speech to Congress Tuesday night that included the kinds of dishonest nonsense the fascist president has long been known for. But as […]