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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...

Con Them With Kindness – “Longtermism” and “Effective Altruism” are the New Faces of Transhumanism The FTX crypto scandal has unmasked the hypocrisy that drives our “philanthropic” elites Joe Allen Futurists don’t just predict coming events. They also seek to shape them. Each prediction is framed to bring about change in a certain direction, whether by bold promises or doomsday prophecies. For instance, when you hear warnings that artificial intelligence could outsmart humankind and destroy us all—or more precisely, if you believe those claims—there is no choice but to rethink your long-term strategy. Maybe you smash the machines preemptively. Or maybe you teach the AI to be nice and then jam a Neuralink trode in your brain to keep up with the conversation. To the extent our immediate decisions are guided by these imagined futures, we’re all unwitting tools of the futurist. After the spectacular crash of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, the twin philosophies of “effective altruism” and...