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Sam Altman: CEO of OpenAI calls for US to regulate artificial intelligence,
BBC, 17.5.023
«... ChatGPT and other
similar programmes can create incredibly human-like answers to questions -
but can also be wildly inaccurate. ... Republican Senator Josh Hawley said
the technology could be revolutionary, but also compared the new tech to the
invention of the "atomic bomb". Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal observed
that an AI-dominated future "is not necessarily the future that we want".
...»
We have put the world in danger with AI, admits ChatGPT creator,
Sydney Morning Herald, 17.5.023
«... Tech companies are in
danger of unleashing a rogue artificial intelligence that will cause
“significant harm to the world” without urgent intervention by governments,
the creator of ChatGPT has admitted. Appearing before US politicians, OpenAI
chief executive Sam Altman lauded the new generation of digital chatbots for
their potential to “improve nearly every aspect of our lives”. However, he
admitted that they had also created the risk of a catastrophe, amid growing
fears that programmers could accidentally create a superintelligence that
decides to wipe out humanity. ... so-called “generative AI” can also create
fake images, audio and videos that are almost imperceptibly lifelike,
raising the prospect of widespread political manipulation and fake news.
OpenAI has previously admitted not fully understanding how it works.»
New research maps 14 potential evolutionary dead ends for humanity and ways
to avoid them, Stockholm Resilience Centre Stockholm
University 2023, The Royal Society, 13.11.2023
«... The new study shows
how humanity could get stuck in “evolutionary traps” — dead ends that occur
from initially successful innovations. In a first scoping effort, they
identify 14 of these, including the simplification of agriculture, economic
growth that does not deliver benefits for humans or the environment, the
instability of global cooperation, climate tipping points, and artificial
intelligence. ... A very simple thing that everybody can do is to engage
more in nature and society while also learning about both the positive and
negative global consequences of our own local actions. There’s nothing
better than exposing yourself to what needs protecting.»
Anthropic allegedly destroyed millions of rare books to train AI — now
booksellers see a surge in mysterious bulk orders, Yahoo!Finance,
3.8.2026
«Some liken it to the
burning of the Library of Alexandria. Others find it reminiscent of the book
bonfires at the heart of Fahrenheit 451. A Dutch bookseller called it
"a kind of barbarism." ... "Once a final non-digitized copy of a book is
shredded, it's gone forever," an editorial in Scotland's Herald warned. "And
the version that is digitized becomes at the mercy of AI interpretation
rather than a straight, accurate representation of the work." The practice
first surfaced last summer when a lawsuit against Anthropic uncovered
internal documents referring to "Project Panama" as, allegedly, an "effort
to destructively scan all the books in the world." ...»
Why is Anthropic destroying books?, «The AI company apparently found
destructively scanning ‘all the books in the world’ easier than dealing with
copyright in its quest for training data.», The Guardian, 5.8.2026
Inside Project Panama, Anthropic's Secret Effort To Scan and Shred the
World's Books, «Unveiling Anthropic's Project Panama and the legal and
ethical implications of book scanning for AI training. Anthropic spent tens
of millions of dollars secretly buying, scanning and destroying millions of
physical books to train its Claude chatbot, according to more than 4,000
pages of unsealed court documents reviewed by the Washington Post. ... An
internal planning document stated plainly that 'Project Panama is our effort
to destructively scan all the books in the world'. The same document
instructed staff to keep quiet, adding that 'we don't want it to be known
that we are working on this'. ...», IBTimes LLC, 28.7.2026
Project Panama, «Project Panama is a data harvesting, digital piracy and
destructive book scanning operation, by American artificial intelligence
corporation Anthropic. ... Project Panama is described as Anthropic's
"effort to destructively scan all the books in the world". ...», Wikipedia
(quoted 17.8.2026)
US
states call for big changes to Instagram and Facebook as Meta child privacy
trial begins, BBC, 19.8.2026
«The trial stems from a lawsuit filed in 2023 by 29 US states, including
California and New York, in which they claim numerous violations of federal
and state privacy laws for children. ... "We'll show a jury that Meta
concealed what it knew about the harm its products cause young people
because looking away was more profitable," ... In a recent ruling against
Meta ... The judge also declared Meta a "public nuisance" akin to a factory
that was polluting the air people breathe, causing "harmful effects" that
impacted an entire population. ... The states involved in the lawsuit
represent nearly two-thirds of the country's population. ... A recent
federal court ruling found social media to be a factor in deteriorating
mental health among young people. ... That social comparison driven by
Instagram was linked to "increased loneliness, worse body image, and
negative mood or affect", according to Meta's internal research. As Judge
Biedscheid put it ... the way Meta's platforms have operated for over a
decade has been part of a growing "youth mental health crisis" in New Mexico
and elsewhere. Now, attorneys from 29 more states will be pushing Judge
Gonzalez Rogers to reach the same conclusion.»
Meta hooked children and misled public: Prosecutors, CNA, 19.8.2026
«An Oakland court heard that Meta "exploited how kids’ brains work" by
making Instagram and Facebook addictive. ... The states are intervening
where "Congress failed to act", Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said
Tuesday afternoon during a press conference, noting that - like landmark
cases against tobacco companies from decades past - this case, too, involved
"public health, and in some cases, marketing to kids that hurt kids". ...
Meta "exploited how kids' brains work", O'Neill said.»
AI, Social Media and Cloud Storage in Nuclear-Free New Zealand, SolarPeace.org, 12.8.2026
«Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta have all signed nuclear deals for AI
infrastructure. Hyperscalers signed over 9.8 GW nuclear capacity to power
the next generation AI infrastructure. ... the quantity of radioactivity in
a nuclear power plant ... In addition, there is the risk of abuse ...
Indeed, Nuclear-Free New Zealand is our greatest asset.» with further information and
media links.
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