Here is an example of someone who became terrified of "Artificial Intelligence" because he saw some output from ChatGPT.

It is clear he believes ChatGPT understands some sort of _meaning_ in its output. In fact, we know it does not understand anything. It is incapable of having knowledge and incapable of having intentions.

I am not trying to claim that real artificial intelligence will be safe. I don't know what it might do. Perhaps we should take some precautions -- such as limiting access to facilities for making DNA sequences to order. Those facilities might be used for mass murder even by plain old humans.

But we can't learn anything about hypothetical future artificial intelligences by looking at doubletalk-generating systems such as ChatGPT.

India has put a pretty mask over the city of Srinagar to shepherd G20 delegates through the city and hide the repression of Kashmir from their eyes.

The article reports that Twitter is censoring some of the postings about these events.

The ACLU is suing to stop Texas thugs for fabricating reasons to prosecute a city council member for pushing to remove another official.

Greg Palast reports that The (original) Keystone oil pipeline ruptured in 2022 (and caused a substantial oil spill) because of improper construction, which was not detected because the safety inspection tool's software had been modified so as to overlook "small" flaws in pipelines.

Palast says that such modification is a common practice. It seems that pipeline companies they have decided to ignore flaws that, although "small", can lead eventually to oil spills.

Some of UK's National Health Service web sites snoop on patients' browsing for Facebook.