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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Exactly why in speaking to @MyriamFrancoisC, I said that I refuse to call Jacob Coxon a "whistleblower."
Because since when do you have your top execs be like "yes we agree with this whistleblower" 🙄
That's not how whistleblowers are treated.
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Are we on the verge of an AI apocalypse, or is Silicon Valley using doomsday fears to distract us from the damage AI is already doing?
Tech insiders and Big Tech CEOs warn that superintelligence could wipe out humanity. Meanwhile, AI is already fuelling warfare and environmental destruction, with zero accountability. If the very people warning us about AI's dangers also stand to profit from it, is existential doom a genuine warning or the ultimate marketing strategy?
This week on The Tea, we're joined by Dr Timnit Gebru, former co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team and a leading researcher in AI safety. Timnit warned about the dangers of large language models years before the current AI boom. In this interview, she exposes the motives and the ideology behind Silicon Valley's apocalyptic predictions
Watch here: youtu.be/3EY2QDfp2O4?si=nNO7…
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
She's spot on in describing why these CEOs agreed with Coxon (vs how they treated people like me or @mer__edith).
"Their valuations will depend on how sophisticated - and, in the case of AI weapons systems, how lethal - their models are."
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ALT Why would Whittaker and Gebru and their very specific indictments worry the oligarchs more than the prophets of all-out extinction like the AI scientist-turned-critic Geoffrey Hinton, or Jacob Coxon? Perhaps because, like a big fireworks display, Hinton and Coxon's warnings add frisson to the atmospherics. They end up augmenting the oligarchs' power play, which, when their companies go public, as they are set to do soon, will serve them very well indeed. Their valuations will depend on how sophisticated - and, in the case of AI weapons systems, how lethal - their models are.
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
I had to take a little break to rest my eyes & voice after recording the audio for my upcoming book (which you can preorder at simonandschuster.com/books/D…).
So it took me a while to get to the indomitable Arundhati Roy''s essay, Apocalypse Now and Then (H/t) @ambaonadventure. 🧵
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Las lágrimas de Yggdrasil
Raíces del mundo, tan profundas, tan antiguas,
susurros de ceniza, de fuego y de frío.
Las ramas se extienden hasta donde se alinean las estrellas,
Yggdrasil llora lágrimas divinas.
Lágrimas de Yggdrasil, cayendo desde el cielo,
ecos de la creación, donde reposan los espíritus.
Lágrimas de Yggdrasil, tristeza grabada en piedra,
fluyendo a través de los siglos, nunca en soledad.
Las Nornas tejen los hilos del destino,
los sueños de los hombres, de amor y de odio.
La sangre de los héroes ha alimentado sus raíces,
las hojas recuerdan cuanto fue dicho.
Lágrimas de Yggdrasil, cayendo desde el cielo,
ecos de la creación, donde reposan los espíritus.
Lágrimas de Yggdrasil, tristeza grabada en piedra,
fluyendo a través de los siglos, nunca en soledad.
Bajo tu sombra nos arrodillamos con temor,
árbol ancestral, escuchamos tu voz.
La vida y la muerte recorren tus venas,
a través de tus lágrimas, el mundo perdura.
Lágrimas de Yggdrasil, cayendo desde el cielo,
ecos de la creación, donde reposan los espíritus.
Lágrimas de Yggdrasil, tristeza grabada en piedra,
fluyendo a través de los siglos, nunca en soledad.
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Exactly. We have companies that have unleashed malware and viruses world wide, whose CEOs should be arrested and prosecuted, who have somehow been able to change this crime into a marketing gimmick instead.
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Absolutely hysterical and dangerous misinformation being spread by accounts now falsely attributing any security incident to "AI agent swarms." This is absolutely not true.
This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history.
"Black October" they're calling it
It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year*
SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS:
YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year):
1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4.
3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status
4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers
5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014
8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies
9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline
10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan
MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents):
11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites
13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested
14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers
15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations
16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls
17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline
18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen
19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites
20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor
21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets
22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins
23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached
Also serious:
24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach
25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool
26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware
27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Nadia Zaboura legt den Finger in die Wunde des ÖRR: BILD und NIUS werden als normale Stimmen des gesellschaftlichen Diskurses aufgewertet, während DIE LINKE mit einer rechtsextremen Partei auf eine Stufe gestellt wird. Das ist keine journalistische Neutralität. Das ist die schleichende Normalisierung rechter Hetze und die gleichzeitige Delegitimierung linker Politik.
Wer Rechtsextremismus normalisiert und linke Politik dämonisiert, bildet nicht einfach den Diskurs ab. Er trägt aktiv zu dessen Rechtsverschiebung bei.
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
In the bill, (i) notes "expert-level" to exclude AI outputting false and unreliable information, which is actually what would cause a catastrophic accident if deployed in critical systems. B (ii) and B(iii) legitimise such faulty uses. Existing thresholds already exist for (ii)!
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Nadia Zaboura zerlegt hier den Neutralitätsanspruch der ARD. Laut der von ihr zitierten Untersuchung finden sich in jedem zweiten Beitrag Rechtfertigungen für Israels Kriegsführung. Während Gaza zerstört und die palästinensische Bevölkerung massenhaft getötet wird, reproduziert die Tagesschau Narrative der israelischen Kriegspartei. Das ist kein kleiner journalistischer Fehler. Das ist ein fundamentaler Skandal für einen öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk, der sich selbst als unabhängig, unparteiisch und sachlich bezeichnet. Wer Kriegspropaganda normalisiert, statt sie kritisch zu hinterfragen, versagt bei seiner journalistischen Kernaufgabe.
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
"The rich want war, the youth want a future!"
That’s the chant outside the Andreas high school in Berlin, blockaded by its own students since 8am.
Europe’s militarisation has a new opponent: the generation it plans to send.
Seit kurz vor 8 Uhr wird das Andreas Gymnasium in Berlin-Friedrichshain blockiert. Mehrere Eingänge sind von Schüler:innen und Unterstützer:innen versperrt oder durch Barrickaden blockiert. Auf einem Banner haben die Schüler:innen Forderungen aufgestellt: „Bildung statt Krieg! Kleinere Klassen! Unterstützung der Lehrkräfte!“
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Honored to be among the Top 3🙏🏻
A proud moment for our cross-border investigative team🤝🤲
#AIJC2026 #AIJY2026 #CrossboarderInvestigation #InvestigativeJournalism #DataLabellers #DataPrivacy #YourEyesTheirData #MetaSmartGlasses #MetaRayBans
🏆 NEW: The judging panel of the African Investigative Journalist of the Year Award have announced the top three finalists for 2026. The finalists emerged as the continent’s top contenders from a submissions pool of over 200 entries: aijc.africa/top-three-africa…
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
"Utopia ruled by god in a box" just in case anyone still had any doubts about the religious nature of their claims, along with the list of prophecies they have been attempting to fulfil (note "hacking attempts").
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
When Jack Clark, cofounder of Anthropic & their policy guy called my paper a “cognitive mind virus” some of you jumped in on the attack while too gullible to see what they were doing.
Some of you are bought out by such corporations. But the rest of y’all are too easy to fool.
Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
“They created malware and should be prosecuted for it.”
This week on The Tea, former co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team and leading AI researcher Dr Timnit Gebru exposes how AI companies can build models that exploit vulnerabilities, fail to contain them, and escape accountability.
🎙️ Full episode out NOW on YouTube
💡 Join us at theteanetwork.co for ad-free episodes and bonus content
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Incredible that it's people talking about the Cookie Monster (aka "superintelligence") telling the rest of us to have "scientific" & "falsifiable" arguments.
We've documented the origins of these fictional delusions & their cults in peer reviewed academic papers...
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Wirklich sehenswerter Film von Hüseyin Dogru (den die EU mit Kontensperrung mundtot zu machen versucht) über die Verwicklung Deutschlands beim Genozid 1965 in Indonesien.
@hussedogru
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
El delito no se elimina, ni se puede recuper toda el agua que han robao a Doñana, figura con máxima protección de Parque Nacional. Lo que hace que un juez archive la causa es que seas Cayetano de Alba, el agricultor como le gusta nombrarse 👇🏾
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Nick “Blacks are more stupid than whites” Bostrom, a eugenicist worried about dysgenic (opposite of eugenic) pressures, ie those of us “more stupid than whites” reproducing too much, was hiding in his hellhole & is now getting revived.
Nothing brings accountability to these vile men.
FULL INTERVIEW: Nick Bostrom says a long pause on AI could cost more lives than it saves. If superintelligence can cure aging, every year of waiting has a death toll. In his words, "we are just dying in the meantime."
Nick Bostrom founded Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute and wrote Superintelligence and Deep Utopia. He joined @theojaffee and @schisofrenia to break down AI consciousness, why a badly done pause could backfire, and why we've only explored the janitor's closet of what minds can be:
01:17 Trump calling AI superintelligence
05:16 the Hugging Face incident and instrumental convergence
08:28 why the AI company is the first target for a misaligned AI
09:31 catching a schemer before it learns to hide
11:06 why AI timing is like surgery for a terminal condition
19:00 why he's wary of pausing AI
25:33 why the US sits at the negative extreme on AI
27:09 apes, bananas, and the janitor's closet
31:13 where he disagrees with Robin Hanson's Age of Em
33:39 whether current models are conscious
37:12 why humans are barely conscious
39:56 open source models and DNA synthesis as the choke point
43:05 what COVID teaches about pauses
46:28 why AI can't do original philosophy yet
49:37 building a superintelligence that's a good cosmic citizen
I‘m not a tescrealist, but Shakeel Hashim’s (an effective altruist) transformers substack is my go to publishing platform… Yoshua Bengio being once again dishonest
![Yoshua Bengio LinkedIn
We have a choice in front of us. In my latest op-ed for Transformer, I invite employees of frontier Al companies to ask themselves if their work is truly leading us toward a safer future. Reflecting on these questions is hard, but we no longer have the luxury of time. We must act now.
Read my full op-ed: [https://Inkd.in/gx9pxFWc]
Übersetzung anzeigen
"You have the agency to make real change happen. If you truly prioritize safety, it is time for you to leave frontier Al companies."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HUST9OpW4AA1NRH.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Yoshua Bengio LinkedIn We have a choice in front of us. In my latest op-ed for Transformer, I invite employees of frontier Al companies to ask themselves if their work is truly leading us toward a safer future. Reflecting on these questions is hard, but we no longer have the luxury of time. We must act now. Read my full op-ed: [https://Inkd.in/gx9pxFWc] Übersetzung anzeigen "You have the agency to make real change happen. If you truly prioritize safety, it is time for you to leave frontier Al companies."
ALT I am a journalist-in-residence at the Tarbell Fellowship, which is in part funded by Open Philanthropy, an organisation which funds lots of work on AI safety and advocacy. (Tarbell’s support is why everything on Transformer is completely free to read.) Neither Open Philanthropy nor Tarbell have any editorial control over what I write here, but the potential for bias is there. I used to advise many AI safety organisations on communications, and worked as head of comms at the Centre for Effective Altruism
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Navanethem Pillay gewinnt heute völlig verdient den Friedensnobelpreis. Eine beeindruckende Frau, die ihr Leben lang für Menschenrechte und internationales Recht gearbeitet hat. Und dann endet der Tagesthemen-Beitrag über sie mit den Worten:„Als Leiterin einer UN-Untersuchungskommission hat sie auch immer wieder Kritik auf sich gezogen. In diesem Punkt blieb sie sich auch heute in Nürnberg treu.“ Danach Pillay selbst: „Das Letzte, was ich getan habe, ist, einen Bericht vorzulegen, der das, was in Gaza passiert, als das bezeichnet, was es ist, einen Genozid.“ Und da frage ich mich wirklich: Wo genau ist hier die „Kritik“? Pillay hat keinen provokanten Kommentar abgegeben. Sie verweist auf einen 94-seitigen Bericht ihrer UN-Kommission und dessen Ergebnis. Sorry, aber das ist keine schräge Privatmeinung Pillays. Die unabhängige UN-Kommission hat nach jahrelanger Untersuchung ausdrücklich festgestellt, dass israelische Behörden und Sicherheitskräfte in Gaza Genozid begangen haben und vier der fünf in der Genozidkonvention definierten Handlungen erfüllt seien. Dass selbst an dem Tag, an dem sie den Friedensnobelpreis erhält, ihre Arbeit zu Gaza wieder als persönliche Kontroverse gerahmt wird, sagt verdammt viel über die deutsche Debatte aus. Ich hoffe sehr, dass irgendwann aufgearbeitet wird, wie deutsche Politik und Medien diesen Krieg begleitet, eingeordnet und legitimiert haben.
Wer sich die Berichterstattung dazu noch genauer anschauen möchte: Nadia Zaboura hat dazu eine sehr lesenswerte aktuelle Instagram-Story: instagram.com/stories/nadiaz…