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Category: Artificial Intelligence
We must embrace AI and data centers, not pause them
We increasingly need AI and data centers to combat our enemies, foreign and domestic. National, local, corporate, hospital, banking and homeowner defense systems need good-guy AI to combat bad-guy AI.
RIP Margaret Hamilton: The Software Engineer who Saved the First Moon Landing by Implementing Error Handling
“… Everybody said that was never going to happen …”
Why China Cares About Data Centers in Arkansas
is this just a coincidence or does China have an agenda to thwart data center construction that puts our national security at risk?” In fact, residents of all states where…
America’s Freedom to Slow AI Is Priced in Magnets
Having a lead and keeping the policies that protect it are different problems, and they run on different clocks. The first clock measures how fast China can close the capability…
OpenAI Agent Reportedly Bypassed Safeguards and Hacked Australian Health Website
AI agent was tasked to collect mundane data collection and autonomously used hacking techniques to get it.
The Absurdity of calls to “Pace” Artificial Intelligence
I’m currently working on three AI projects. All of the projects could produce novel AI capabilities. Which project should I “pace”?
Infinite Friction: Why the Nuclear Analogy Is Wrong for AI
In the age of powerful AI, a geopolitical plateau of strategic stability will not come in a static balance of power, negotiated in the manner of bygone nuclear doctrines.
Win the AI Race. Then Face What Comes Next.
In the long term, we should not let the fear of human obsolescence deter our pursuit of technological supremacy. By winning the AI race at full throttle, we secure our…
The Anti-Nuclear Playbook Comes for Data Centers
Half a century ago, raw emotion drove an anti-nuclear energy campaign that still stifles clean energy development in the U.S. Today, that same fear-driven playbook is being deployed in a…
Trump Completely Rejects AI “Experts” Push to ‘Pace the Frontier’
“We’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI wins.”
UN Tries to Insert itself into Calls for AI Regulation
I’m now even more convinced of my AI drawbridge theory – incumbents using red tape to raise the drawbridge and block entry for new competitors.
OpenAI Claims Breakthrough in Navier-Stokes Equation, but NYU Mathematician Alleges His Work Was Copied
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster asserts OpenAI cribbed the work he and a collaborator had done, which included significant progress toward solving the equation in August. OpenAI announced its team had solved…
Pumpkin Spice and the AI Apocalypse
Ah, autumn in America. It’s time for some of our favorite seasonal rituals: leaf-drenched pumpkin patches, foamy lattes, retro barn jackets, and yet another self-reported Anthropic AI researcher declaring to…
Why the AI Merchants of Doom are Dead Wrong
Hacking a weak computer system does not equal global doomsday.
ChatGPT Completely Nukes Kenya’s College Essay Writing Gig Economy
The Kenyan essay gig economy once brought in between $240 million to $960 million annually in gross payments. AI slaughtered that cash cow.
Bernie Sanders Proposes a “Ban Artificial Super-intelligence Act”
More evidence fear of AI is displacing the failed climate scare.
Sabine Hossenfelder: “I Was Offered Money to Tell You AI Will Kill Us”
A tangled web of murky motives, politics, underhand tactics and unexpected twists. But what else would you expect when it comes to AI?
America Doesn’t Have an AI Problem. It Has a Competitiveness Problem.
AI is no longer just a technology issue. It is an energy issue. It is a permitting issue. It is a transmission issue. It is a manufacturing issue. Increasingly, it…
Backlash Against AI Data Centers Is Real, Organic, Widespread
All the money in the world from Big Tech and their allies in Washington, D.C., won’t make a difference. Only a real and sustained demonstration that we are on the right…