We also have a podcast today treating this issue, claireberlinski.substac…, and I’m working on an essay about it, too. This is alarming beyond belief. I know Americans are overwhelmed by alarm, stunned by the mounting crises, and drowning in information. But this is different from all of the other emergencies. if you do only one thing this week, call your representatives and tell them that they *must* take this seriously. And tell journalists who are publishing stupid article after stupid article about Jeffrey Epstein that they need to wake up: The public needs to understand this, and it can't wait for the midterms. If you’d like background reading, search “AI” on the Cosmopolitan Globalist for articles we’ve published about the risk involved here, and especially our recent articles about the intersection of AI and nuclear risk.
Claire Berlinski calls attention to this piece by Gary Marcus, who highlights some recent alarming findings, that “AI” does not “get” (or “grok”) why humans have this “taboo” about using nuclear weapons in war.
Gary Marcus sums it up:
“But the juxtaposition of a two things over the last few days has scared the shit out of me.