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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.
“Item 1: The Trump administration seems hellbent on using AI absolutely everywhere, and seems to be prepared to hold Anthropic (and presumably ultimately other companies) at gunpoint to allow them to use that AI however they damn please, including for mass surveillance and to guide autonomous weapons.
“Item 2: These systems cannot be trusted. I have been trying to tell the world that since 2018, in every way I know how, but people who don’t really understand the technology keep blundering forward, ignoring the trust issues that are inherent. Already GenAI appears to have been used in the Maduro raids and to write tariff regulations. And thousands of other places.”
Read it all. Then make your voice heard — or forever hold your … “whatever” …