Judging from the name of his drone ships, he's clearly read some of Iain Bank's Culture series. It features a futuristic interstellar socialist civilization run by benevolent AI's who just happen to be very deadly spaceships.

  (I recommend Player of Games for an easy/fun read and Use of Weapons for deeper theme/characterization.)

Once again, America's economic interests and foreign relations have suffered because we elected an emotionally fragile boy-king who can only think of himself. What's it going to be next month?

Left or right... At this point I'd just be happy for some adult leadership in the room.

I've always been pro free speech, but social media has left me wondering... if a business model can be shown to inherently fracture societies, destabilize democracies, and fuel genocide, should it be allowed to exist? Maybe there's a different way to share cat photos with your grandma that doesn't require entrusting our civic discourse to algorithms that maximize for fear and outrage.

So... everyone talks about vibe coding these days... yet nobody within the administration comes along and says "oh, instead of paying MS for 500k licenses... how about we just vibe code something similar with an open local model"...

(e.g. do they *really* need the latest frontier model for routine administrative tasks... or would a 7gig local model do just as well?).

Yep! With I had points for this... but not just EU... why would there be a need to have chatbots in WhatsApp at all? We already got other ways to chat with bots... no need to push them into primarily person-to-person medium.

Nudity detection isn't exactly a new technology, and the results don't have to be perfect/infallible to passify lawmakers. Love it or hate it as public policy, but technically it's possible.

Your comment presupposes that those who coast will just get washed out and it will only affect them. Instead:

(1) As a result of AI, students who would have invested the effort and become solid developers will instead "coast" thru.

(2) Many of the coasters will still get their degree, enter the job market, and obtain developer positions.
They may even have an advantage over non-coasters because they will have had more time to devote to extracurriculars and internships.

NET RESULT: AI weakens the overall quality and quantity and good entry-level developers available for the field to hire.

This. Society doesn't need commercial location tracking firms (e.g., that track the general population). Ban them and require due privacy protections for digital products that use location data.

This guy gets it

And you also don't understand consciousness. None of us do. Maybe it's deterministic or maybe it's not. We feel like we have free will, but so what? Dawkins feels he's talking to a conscious being because the faux-social interaction triggers neutral circuitry for interacting with others. Agency over-attribution ain't exactly rare: most humans believe in god despite not interacting with him in person.

Dawkins is most likely wrong, but without a fundamental understanding of what consciousness is, I don't know how you outrule the possibility.

Climate change *denial* is the tool of the oligarchs... if you're a rich old man it's better to ignore the problem so your taxes stay low and your portfolio increases in value faster. Actually fighting it means having to invest in infrastructure and new technologies which has the unfortunate effect of creating jobs and distributing wealth more broadly.

Given that AI will kill us all if it gets too smart, this seems like a good first step towards regulation. Really, a much more comprehensive worldwide response from governments is needed to prevent an intelligence from overrunning humanity.

Don't you also have to have a smartphone and a relationship with either Apple or Google? At least that's true for the reference implementation.

The would-be Trump shooter was not a school teacher, he was a mech eng/comp sci graduate with a tutoring gig.

And just generally dude, chill... most teachers are just trying to teach and take care of their kids while navigating a tangled mesh of rules, methodologies, and liabilities in an environment where technology is disrupting everything and parents either don't care or are hyper-defensive.

You didn't pay "marginally" more attention, you paid a lot more attention because you weren't trained to favor continual short dophamine hits from short-form media. You see, it's not just the classroom environment that has changed: the entire cognitive ecology that young people live in (inside and outside school) has been re-shaped.