While the planet burns and the sky is full of Flock’s police-camera tyranny, AI is increasingly pervasive and intrusive and making everyone dumber and exposed to wild unpredictability.
WIRED Magazine has reviewed leaked documents showing how, as the Trump administration prepares for AI to cause a wave of social unrest, it is already using the technology to suppress anti-AI “extremism,” Alan MacLeod reports.
Several AI boosters signed this week’s “mitigation extinction risks” statement, raising the possibility that insiders with billions of dollars at stake are attempting to showcase their capacity for self-regulation.