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Are you worried about losing your job to AI? Don’t sweat it, because Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes AI could unleash a wave of bioterrorism that may wipe us all from the face of Earth.
His 20K-word “The Adolescence of Technology: Confronting and Overcoming the Risk of Powerful AI” essay is a must-read.
He notes that AI will eventually be more capable than any Nobel Prize winner, statesman or technologist.
Everyone will have a genius in their pocket, “essentially making everyone a PhD virologist who can be walked through the process of designing, synthesizing, and releasing a biological weapon step-by-step,” he wrote.
A disturbed loner who wants to kill people but lacks the discipline or skill to do so will now be elevated to the capability level of the PhD virologist, who is unlikely to have this motivation.
Renting powerful AI gives intelligence to malicious (but otherwise average) people, wrote Amodei. “I am worried there are potentially a large number of such people out there, and that if they have access to an easy way to kill millions of people, sooner or later one of them will do it.”
What if the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski had access to AI?
Calling for a do-over… Almost six in ten (58 percent) of Americans say Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown has gone too far.
Twelve percent say ICE hasn’t gone far enough in tracking down illegal immigrants, while 26 percent believe ICE’s tactics are just about right.
The Reuter/Ipsos poll was released Jan 27 and conducted from Jan 23 to Jan. 25. That’s before and after the Jan 24 murder of Alex Pretti.
It’s a safe bet that more Americans disapprove of ICE’s reign of terror after the killing of nurse Pretti.
An updated poll is needed.
He takes yet another bow... Master negotiator Trump says it’s very nice that his handler and Russia boss Vladimir Putin has agreed to an energy ceasefire with Ukraine due to the frigid cold.
“I personally asked President Putin not to fire on Kyiv and the cities and towns for a week during this . . . extraordinary cold,” he said during his Jan. 29 cabinet meeting. “And he agreed to do that. And I have to tell you, it was very nice.” No, Don. It's very nice that Putin is suspending his war-criminal rampage against the civilians of Ukraine.
Trump added that “we’re very happy” because missiles falling on Ukraine “is not what they need.”
What Ukraine really needs is for the US to return as its indispensable and highly engaged partner. and supplier of weapons needed to fight the Russians.
It also needs Trump to slap tougher sanctions on Russia and his pal, Vlad.
Understatement of the Year: FIFA president Gianni Infantino concedes mistakes were made in his scheme to sell-out the World Cup... Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch charges Israel with deliberately targeting and attacking journalists in Lebanon... It will take images of US soldiers throwing rocks at the People's Liberation Army as it invades Taiwan before Trump admits the munitions shortage.
Donald Trump, who earned more than $2B last year, accuses oil companies of making too much money... Rocket science isn't easy, according to SpaceX chief Elon Musk... The volatile Jeanine Pirro has the edge over smarmy Interior Secretary Doug Burgum in the battle over blame for The Reflecting Pool mess... Omnicom CEO John Wren credits clients for adjusting pretty well to the disruptions caused by the Middle East, Ukraine and tariff chaos. 
FIFA chief Gianni Infantino’s audacious scheme to sell stakes in a new subsidiary that will manage the World Cup is the payoff for his obnoxious pandering to Donald Trump... PwC's "thought leadership" pieces on AI and electric vehicles are riddled with "hallucinations."... 
As Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to meet with Donald Trump, the influential Israeli media outlet, Haaretz, has called on the country to end of the country’s influence ops campaign targeted at the US.
Donald Trump falsely clams that his Iranian war disaster won't have an impact on him... Pvt Isabella Gonzales, the 19-year-old killed in action in Jordan, would have flunked Pentagon Pete's T-level tests... The Conservative Political Action Conference inaugural session in the UK flops. Brits are turned off by weak speeches and prayer sessions... Establishment Partnership for NYC heaps kudos on the Democratic Socialist Big Apple mayor... Prologis issues quirky press release in its takover bid for Segro... New York Mets are down but not yet out.
