A data center in Georgia used 30 million gallons of water illegally, and locals only noticed when their water pressure was abnormally low. The data center claimed it was an honest mistake, but locals were told by the town to conserve water while the data center kept running.

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Can water intake prevent Alzheimer’s disease? No. This is fully AI-generated… but the data below could easily pass as real. The new ChatGPT image model is truly impressive, but I think it poses a real risk for scientific integrity in future. For example, I could just generate a dataset with a single prompt that appears to show something like water preventing Alzheimer’s disease. Ironically, we used to laugh at obvious “AI slop” (like those weird generated mice), but that’s changing pretty fast. If I were reviewing this fake figure today, I’m not sure I could reliably tell whether this figure is real or AI-generated? The bigger issue is that the usual signals we rely on e.g., how realistic or plausible something looks are no longer enough. I think we really need more comprehensive AI detection and, more importantly, stronger verification standards for scientific submissions going forward. We’ll probably also need better ways to digitize lab notebooks and ensure access to raw data, something closer to how code and version history are tracked...

“OpenAI is backing SB 3444, under which frontier AI developers would not be liable for causing death or serious injury to 100 or more people… This protection includes cases when AI causes or materially enables the creation or use of chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons.”

From @neiltyson: "that branch of AI is lethal. We gotta do something about that. Nobody should build it. And everyone needs to agree to that by treaty."

AI accelerationists are doing a terrible job of selling the idea of a world of complete human disempowerment. Why would we want to live in a world where we're merely slaves or pets of a machine? Why wouldn't we just ban AI instead? This is a bad sales pitch.

Alex Karp says AI companies don't understand the world is zero-sum. "[Silicon Valley companies] do “think it’s zero-sum: they think it’s zero-sum versus each other.” "They absolutely are fighting. It's my own rhetoric, but I happen to think it's true: it's going to be chips ontology, and I suspect, in the end, one-and-a-half providers." "They pretend they don't think it's zero-sum, but then ask them how they feel about their competitor... these people are fighting very, very hard for the dominant position." "What they don't understand is that in the world, it's zero-sum. But I actually think the primary issue in the valley is it's going to be zero-sum vis-à-vis you." "When politicians figure out this is the one winning issue, it's going to be zero-sum. It's going to be your money and your company being zero-sum nationalized. So that's the part they don't understand." "It seems to be very hard in this culture... to explain to people that we're in a competitive environment, because things here are so good. They don't understand how different it will be; and how much we will change; and how much the pressure will be on America, not just legally, but militarily and culturally, if we fall behind." @PalantirTech @KTMBoyle