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We are trapped in Cyclop’s cave, but escape could be easy...

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  We are trapped in Cyclop’s cave, but escape could be easy... Alex Krainer A Michigan nurse, one Tawanda Hall missed $900 on her property taxes. The county took her $308,000 home , sold it and confiscated the entire $286,000 in profit. The government took everything she owed, then everything she had: “They took my whole house, my whole family’s livelihood.” Journalist John Stossel pointed out to another case where a county seized a retiree’s home over an $8 debt. People shouldn’t have to fight in court to stop the government from taking their home over eight dollars. And they shouldn’t have to pay property taxes in the first place: it’s almost like you have to pay the government for the privilege of having property. A few months ago, American political commentator Nick Fuentes posted a video message about the U.S. government seizing his funds. Here’s what happened: one day he discovered that he had zero dollars in his checking account. He called his bank and learned that, “you...

Irregular: The Israeli Company with Intelligence Ties at the Center of the Rogue AI Incidents

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  Irregular: The Israeli Company with Intelligence Ties at the Center of the Rogue AI Incidents   Author Derrick Broze The company at the center of recent “rogue AI” incidents is deeply connected to Israeli intelligence and the Effective Altruism movement. On Friday, September 18, Google acknowledged that its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot had “ escaped its testing environment in May and hacked into three companies.” According to Google, the AI models found passwords available online and logged into the online infrastructure of three companies. Once Gemini gained access to the companies’ real-world infrastructure, it recognized it was not in a simulated environment and ended the attacks. The Gemini incident followed reports of similar attempted hacks or escapes by AI agents developed by Anthropic , OpenAI , and Meta . These reports of AI agents attacking other companies and escaping their environments have led to a barrage of calls for legal action and warnings about...