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  'You Are Not Needed...Please Die': Google AI Tells Student He Is 'Drain On The Earth' by Tyler Durden In a chilling episode in which artificial intelligence seemingly turned on its human master,  Google's Gemini AI chatbot coldly and emphatically told a Michigan college student that he is a "waste of time and resources" before instructing him to "please die."   Vidhay Reddy tells  CBS News  he and his sister were "thoroughly freaked out" by the experience.  "I wanted to throw all of my devices out the window,"  added his sister. "I hadn't felt panic like that in a long time, to be honest."    The context of Reddy's conversation adds to the creepiness of Gemini's directive.  The 29-year-old had engaged the AI chatbot to explore the many financial, social, medical and health care challenges faced by people as they grow old.  After nearly  5,000 words of give and take  under the title "challenges and ...

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...