Showing posts with label dangers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dangers. Show all posts
Monday, August 24, 2026

The Guardian cartoonist Ella Baron on AI (artificial intelligence) and the drought

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Guardian Opinion  cartoon   AI (artificial intelligence) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/aug/23/ella-baron-on-ai-and-...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

"And whatever shape the first major AI-related disaster takes, it won’t impact all countries, companies and people equally. It therefore seems unlikely that just one disaster will be enough to bring us humans to our senses, acting together to control the superhuman power we are creating. I really hate to say this, but … an AI Hiroshima? We should be so lucky." Timothy Garton Ash in The Guardian

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Illustration: Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? I ...
Sunday, August 16, 2026

The first anti-AI protester to be jailed has a message for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta: ‘Regain your humanity’: “It’s absolutely frightening and appalling that these CEOs and AI experts know the dangers and they are pursuing it anyway,” Kaufmyn said before she was imprisoned. “That to me is unconscionable and reprehensible.”

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A protest against AI outside OpenAI headquarters in San Francisco, California, on 11 July. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images Kaufmyn in fr...
Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Jordan is convening an emergency meeting of foreign ministers from the Arab and Islamic world over what it says is an “imminent” threat of an Israeli takeover of the most important Muslim site in Jerusalem, with the potential to “trigger a religious conflict”. The meeting on Wednesday – and the Jordanian warning – follow an escalating pattern of government-backed incursions by Jewish religious extremists on the compound around al-Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock, in violation of a status quo treaty overseen by Jordan’s Hashemite monarchy, by which only Muslims can pray at the site. On 23 July, more than 2,000 Israelis from the religious right – mostly settlers led by the national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir – stormed the area...

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On 23 July, more than 2,000 Israelis from the religious right stormed the area. Photograph: Ilia Yefimovich/AFP/Getty Images Jordan Jerusal...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge- Online academic journals falsely attributed articles, likely written by AI, to several professors, who say the fiasco is a warning about the future of scientific knowledge.

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NBC News @NBCNews A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated...