Scientist Says Superhuman AI May Eliminate Humanity; Joe Rogan Just Issued a Warning About Artificial Intelligence — After a Fake Version of His Podcast Was Created 100% Through AI Technology

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By Popular Mechanics. Geoffrey Hinton has been working on artificial intelligence for over 40 years. Now, as we are watching the technology rapidly evolve, he tells CBS News there’s cause for concern.

Regarding the odds of AI wiping out humanity, Hinton says it’s “not inconceivable, that’s all I’ll say.”

Don’t panic just yet, though. That potential—even if it’s only “not inconceivable”—to wipe out humanity doesn’t lie with AI along the lines of ChatGPT. It references what is known as “general artificial intelligence,” which is the kind where AI can truly act on its own accord.

“Until quite recently, I thought it was going to be like 20 to 50 years before we have general purpose AI,” Hinton tells CBS News. “And now I think it may be 20 years or less. That’s an issue, right? We have to think hard about how you control that.”

So, according to Hinton, there’s still time to work things out before we need to worry about causing our own demise—even if the tech is evolving faster than anticipated. At the moment, he is more concerned about how we manage a world-changing technology than he is about a potential AI-induced end to humanity. Hinton says that a handful of companies or governments could wield incredible amounts of power with AI technology in their hands. (Read more from “Scientist Says Superhuman AI May Eliminate Humanity” HERE)

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Joe Rogan Just Issued a Warning About Artificial Intelligence — After a Fake Version of His Podcast Was Created 100% Through AI Technology

By Yahoo Finance. Controversial podcaster Joe Rogan has issued a warning about artificial intelligence after a fake — but very realistic — version of his popular podcast ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ was published online.

The fictional episode — generated with the help of AI chatbot ChatGPT — was published on YouTube on April 4.

It depicts a conversation between Joe Rogan and Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, with a disclaimer that the “ideas and opinions expressed in the podcast are not reflective of [their actual] thoughts.”

“Let me tell you folks, this is some next-level stuff we’ve got going on here today,” the AI-generated Joe Rogan says. “Every single word of this podcast has been generated with the help of ChatGPT…I am not the real Joe Rogan… this is purely fiction.”

The real-life Rogan was ill at ease after the episode dropped. He tweeted: “This is going to get very slippery, kids.”

[Warning: tweet contains explicit language.]

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No Evidence Face Masks Protected Vulnerable From COVID, Health Officials Admit

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There is not enough evidence to suggest medical-grade face masks protect vulnerable people from Covid, health officials have admitted.

A rapid review report published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) investigated if high-quality masks, such as the N95, KN95 and FFP2 coverings, protect clinically vulnerable people in the community from catching Covid.

However, the report was unable to find a single piece of scientific research which had usable data.

“The review did not identify any studies for inclusion, and so could provide no evidence to answer the research question,” the authors state. “No studies matching the inclusion criteria were found, so no evidence could be presented.”

The rapid review looked at 4,371 studies specifically about Covid but there were none that examined the effectiveness of N95 and equivalent face masks as wearer protection against Covid-19 when used in the community by people at higher risk of becoming seriously ill. (Read more from “No Evidence Face Masks Protected Vulnerable From COVID, Health Officials Admit” HERE)

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Elon Musk Says Government Access to Twitter ‘Blew’ His Mind

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk says the level of access government agencies had within the social media giant came as a massive shock to him.

The tech billionaire, who completed his takeover of Twitter roughly six months ago, made the comments in a new clip advertising an interview he did with Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

“The degree to which various government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on at Twitter blew my mind,” he said. “I was not aware of that.”

The short clip ends with Carlson asking if government access included direct messages, to which Musk replies, “Yes.”

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Biden Tries to Contain Classified Documents Leak Fallout: ‘Stakes Just Got Higher’

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A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman has been arrested after the leak of classified information that has already had consequences for the Ukraine war and the United States’s relationship with critical allies, including Egypt, Israel, and South Korea.

But while the suspected source of the leak, 21-year-old intelligence information technology officer and gamer Jack Teixeira, has been identified, the national security and political implications of his actions for President Joe Biden are only now being understood.

Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Mick Mulroy excoriated Teixeira’s alleged leak for threatening national security by undermining the country’s collection of intelligence.

“It is bad enough that our adversaries know what we know, or at least in part,” Mulroy told the Washington Examiner. “It is really bad if our adversaries know how we know it. That goes to our sources and methods. They will review what documents are out there and use that to launch their own counterintelligence operations.”

Teixeira reportedly started sharing photos of classified information in a pandemic-era online chatroom he led on the Discord social media website that is popular with gamers months ago before they were found on other platforms and located by the Biden administration last week. And his leak has caused “substantive damage” to Ukraine by disclosing secret U.S. assessments of Ukraine’s capabilities and how the U.S. has compromised Russia’s communication channels, according to American Enterprise Institute foreign policy senior fellow Dalibor Rohac. (Read more from “Biden Tries to Contain Classified Documents Leak Fallout: ‘Stakes Just Got Higher’” HERE)

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Trump Basks in Frontrunner Status: ‘I’m Honored’ by Polling Leads, ‘Party Is Very Unified’ Behind 2024 Campaign

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Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively on Friday night that he is “honored” to be the frontrunner for the White House in the 2024 presidential campaign.

Trump, just off his arraignment post-indictment in New York City, has seen a massive surge of support both in the GOP primary and in general election numbers in recent weeks.

“Well, I’m honored,” Trump said when asked why he thinks he is seeing the surge to frontrunner status. “Sadly, I have to say part of it is because the country is doing so poorly. I wish it were for other reasons. They saw how we did, and now they see the country doing so poorly and so pathetically. We’re not respected by anybody. You have wars all over. Ukraine and Russia never would have happened if I were president — zero chance. It looks like China is going to happen with Taiwan. That never would have happened. And inflation never would have happened. It was caused by energy prices more than anything else. So many of these things were just self-imposed foolish mistakes — stupid mistakes beyond anything anyone has ever seen before. So, yeah, I’m leading a lot in the polls — by 35 or 40 points in almost every poll. Texas just came in and we’re almost 50 points in Texas. Now, Massachusetts is almost 50 points.”

It seems like the indictment from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and the intense national focus on his arraignment, has only fueled Trump’s surge.

In general election numbers, two post-indictment YouGov surveys nationally put Trump ahead of Democrat President Joe Biden, and a Rasmussen Reports survey showed Trump expanding his lead to seven percent over the incumbent president.

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For $80 Billion (And Counting) US Taxpayers Have Bought a Bloody Stalemate in Ukraine

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The trove of recently leaked intelligence documents related to the Ukraine war should prompt Americans to start asking tough questions about our involvement in that conflict, which one of the documents, a Feb. 23 overview of fighting in Ukraine’s Donbas region, describes as a “grinding campaign of attrition” that has reached a “stalemate.”

U.S. taxpayers have poured nearly $80 billion into this war over the past 14 months. At what point are we allowed to ask whether a “stalemate” in a “grinding campaign of attrition” is a good deal for Americans?

Above all, Americans should demand the bipartisan Washington consensus that supports indefinitely funding the war explain what our strategy is, define what the American interest is in it, and detail how they plan to achieve something beyond an interminable war of attrition that risks pulling us into direct conflict with nuclear-armed Russia. At the very least, the American people deserve more than inane platitudes from Antony Blinken about “Ukrainian victory” and “standing united with Ukraine for as long as it takes,” as if total Russian defeat and withdrawal is a realistic outcome.

The classified documents lend some urgency to these questions because they reveal, among other things, a severe shortage of air defense weapons in Ukraine — so severe it could mean the difference between an ongoing stalemate or a Russian victory in the coming weeks or months. Without adequate air defenses, Russian warplanes will be able to bomb Ukrainian positions at will, which in turn might make Ukraine’s planned spring offensive impossible. No wonder, then, that earlier this month the Biden administration pledged $2.6 billion to rush air defense systems to Ukraine.

What the documents also suggest, as if it hasn’t become obvious by now, is that the war has not been an unbroken chain of brilliant underdog battlefield victories for Ukraine and crushing defeats for Russia, as the corporate media and the Washington political establishment have led us to believe. It rather seems like chaotic and indecisive butchery on both sides, with weapons and cash pouring in not just from the U.S. but from all over the world sustaining a large-scale war of attrition with no end in sight. Behind the scenes, according to the leaked documents, U.S. officials are predicting only “modest territorial gains” from Ukraine’s big spring counteroffensive, the recent surge of U.S. weapons and air defense systems notwithstanding. (Read more from “For $80 Billion (And Counting) US Taxpayers Have Bought a Bloody Stalemate in Ukraine” HERE)

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Donald Trump Pledges Tax Credit for Teachers Who Train to Be Armed

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During his speech at the NRA’s Annual Meeting 2023, former president Donald Trump, a candidate for president in 2024, pledged a tax credit for teachers who take the time to be trained in firearms proficiency for classroom defense.

According to excerpts of prepared remarks provided to Breitbart News by Trump’s team, Trump spoke at the NRA Annual Meeting leadership forum, where he told attendees, “I will also create a new tax credit to reimburse any teacher for the full cost of a concealed-carry firearm and training from highly qualified experts.”

He added, “If even 5 percent of teachers were voluntarily armed and trained to stop active shooters, we would achieve effective deterrence and the problem would cease to exist.” (Read more from “Donald Trump Pledges Tax Credit for Teachers Who Train to Be Armed” HERE)

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A Triumphant Trump Asks for NRA Convention’s Help in Returning to White House

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Former President Donald Trump had a hero’s return to the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Indianapolis as he hit the stage to chants of “USA! USA!”

“I was proud to be the most pro-gun, pro-Second Amendment president you’ve ever had in the White House,” Trump said. “I think that’s been acknowledged, and with your support, in 2024, I will be your loyal friend and fearless champion once again as the 47th president of the United States.”

Trump bragged about his poll numbers and briefly referenced several 2024 presidential rivals, including former Vice President Mike Pence, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, as he spoke before gun rights activists at the event.

Pence and Trump have been at odds since the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The NRA convention is the first time the two men are speaking at the same place. Yet Pence has not announced whether he will run.

Nevertheless, Trump had a few positive words for his former running mate. “I hope you gave Pence a good warm approval,” Trump said as some of the NRA crowd booed Pence. “Because he is a nice man if you want to really know the truth. … He’s a good man.” (Read more from “A Triumphant Trump Asks for NRA Convention’s Help in Returning to White House” HERE)

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‘That Is a Fraud’: DeSantis Blasts Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas

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Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis took a swipe at male athletes who claim to be transgender “women” by slamming them as “frauds” on Friday.

Speaking at Liberty University, DeSantis took specific aim at transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas. Though he did not use the swimmer’s name, there was no doubt about who DeSantis meant to reference.

“It is wrong to have a swimmer compete for three years on the men’s swim team, switch to the women’s team, and then win the women’s national championship,” DeSantis told his audience, Fox News reported. “That is a fraud. That is wrong.”

The comments perfectly line up with the sudden championship swimming year experienced by Thomas. Born as William Thomas, the athlete was an entirely mediocre swimmer on the UPenn men’s swimming team for three years. But after taking a year off to “transition” to a female, Thomas rejoined the UPenn swimming program on the women’s team and was suddenly the school’s top woman swimmer. Thomas won the 2022 500 freestyle national championship after a season of multiple top times in the sport. (Read more from “‘That Is a Fraud’: DeSantis Blasts Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas” HERE)

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Montana Lawmakers Pass Statewide Ban on TikTok, First in Nation

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Montana lawmakers voted to pass the first state ban on TikTok, sending the bill to Gov. Greg Gianforte to be signed into law.

Montana’s House of Representatives voted 54-43 on Friday in favor of SB 419, more than a month after the Montana state Senate voted in favor of the bill. SB 419’s passage will make it the most extreme measure lawmakers in the United States have imposed on the China-operated social media app. Gianforte, a Republican, is expected to sign the bill.

The bill would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2024, prohibiting TikTok from operating within Montana’s borders. It will also fine companies providing the app $10,000 per violation for allowing users access to the app.

TikTok will “continue to fight for TikTok users and creators in Montana whose livelihoods and First Amendment rights are threatened by this egregious government overreach,” a spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal. (Read more from “Montana Lawmakers Pass Statewide Ban on TikTok, First in Nation” HERE)

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