What on earth are they doing that it needs 8GB of RAM ?

Maybe Trump is angling for a new job when his presidency of the USA ends: deputy president of Russia.

It depends on what you regard as most important: a company making a lot of money that is distributed to a small number of people (share holders) even if it means, for instance, polluting the local environment or acting to the benefit of the general population. Ie is it the rich getting richer and the poor poorer or is wealth to be distributed more evenly.

An interesting 46min video on just this: an inward looking America has never best served its own interests, also the history of "America First".

So can I say: "I did not shoot him, my gun only ejected the bullet at high speed when the trigger was pulled, which is what the thing is made for."

turned himself in at a local police station saying that he is the head of a criminal hacking organisation and that he should be arrested and the rest of Open AI shut down with immediate effect.

No ? If your are rich enough the normal rules increasingly do not apply to you.

most AI is Super Intelligent.

Price comparison has been going on for years; just send someone round to nearby stores with a pen & clipboard; collate the results and set prices.

"AI" is just the latest type of magic pixie dust that is used to wow people that something great is going on.

when it talks about climate change. However the morons that run the state will not do that.

Bugs (in new code) are hopefully being added more slowly than bugs found and squashed in existing code - so surely the number of remaining bugs will drop. Hopefully those running bug finding AIs are not keeping some remote exploitable bugs to themselves; I would not be surprised if government agencies were doing this.

Or even a nation state that gets hold of a copy of Claude, I can think of many that would happily use it for this -- and worse.

People who have a much greater standing than me have said that Israel is carrying out genocide, eg: The International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust scholar Amos Goldberg, Médecins Sans Frontières, Raz Segal "A Textbook Case of Genocide" to list but a few. The evidence is there for all to see but our political leaders in the West ignore it.

Then there is Jerusalem, the West Bank, South Lebanon - all with the aim of Greater Israel.

Israel is training AI chatbots how to talk about Gaza so that when people query what is happening it casts doubt on the genocide that it is doing in Palestine. This is even more dangerous as people might start to believe Israel's lies.

If it is optional then I hope that I can chose who I buy it from. However I doubt that this is the case.