Remembering Paul Ehrlich (Even If We Would Rather Not)

The US has proposed holding talks with Iran that would be led by Vice President JD Vance and Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, with Turkey acting as the mediator, Al-Monitor reported on Monday, citing a Turkish source. The report said that so far, there’s been no response from Iran, and Ghalibaf called reports from […]

Anthropic Warns Of 'Existential AI Risks To Humanity' In IPO Prospectus; OpenAI Scraps Release Of "Deceptive" Model Update (1010ET): Another day, another doom headline involving frontier AI labs. Yesterday, OpenAI announced that they would be scrapping the planned release of its next-gen AI model because of "deceptive" behavior. Today, we find out from a leaked prospectus ahead of Anthropic's $2T IPO that AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity."  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei"Our development of highly advanced models, platforms, and applications and expansion of use cases could further ⁠increase the risk that our models cause...

Explosives Found Near Key Serbia-Hungary Pipeline Transporting Russian Gas Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic informed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban by phone on Sunday that explosives were discovered near a key pipeline carrying Russian gas from Serbia to Hungary. "Our units found high-powered explosives and detonators," Vucic wrote on Instagram after briefing Orban on the military and police investigations. via EPA During a site visit on Sunday, Vucic told journalists the explosives were located in the autonomous Vojvodina province in northern Serbia, near the Hungarian border. The device was reportedly found near the main...