Keith Abney

Systemic protections and guardrails are essential to a functioning society. Nature understands this even if oligarchs don't.

DOGE’s Plans to Replace Humans With AI Are Already Under Way The civil service is being turned over to machines.

As predicted, Elon wants human jobs to disappear: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Won't work because of the possibility of a decisive strategic advantage from being first by even a short time, given the possibility of fast takeoff enabling a singleton

Eric Schmidt Suggests Countries Could Engage in Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM) The U.S. should not create its own Manhattan Project for AI, because such a project would invite retaliation from adversaries.

Deterrence theory goes from MAD to MAIM: gizmodo.com/eric-schmidt...

The Smarter AI Gets, the More It Start Cheating When It's Losing New research has shown that some AI models will do just about anything to accomplish their task, including hacking your computer.

Not exactly the Turing test, but concerning: futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...

Cyber Threat Scenarios: Cubesat Hack Read about the first in a series of hypothetical scenarios, each one examining a different fictional threat.

Feel free to read, comment, or ask questions. www.satellitetoday.com/cybersecurit...

YouTube video by MI5MI6GCHQ Goldfinger (1964) - Nuking Fort Knox

youtu.be/efOL7hF-YDU?...

Elon Musk has now set his sights on the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox, insisting on personally ensuring the gold remains intact. The vault was last opened to journalists and a congressional delegation in 1974.

100% agreed. plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/

An asteroid could hit Earth in 2032. Here’s why experts say do not panic. Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

Well, until 2028, when we'll be able to either drop the impact likelihood to zero, or raise it to nearly 100%. Then panic. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049

Here's Why Elon Musk's 'Fork in the Road' Is Really a Dead End Elon Musk’s Fork in the Road isn’t just a sculpture—it’s a monument to the tech world’s obsession with civilizational survival, which has its roots in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

If you really are worried about extinction, why think Musk's approach will save us? Instead, take the ethical high road and hope ASI sees us as worthy of continuing existence. A bare existence on Mars wouldn't save us from ASI intent on our extinction.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/elon...

N.Y. doctor charged with prescribing abortion pills to Louisiana girl A New York doctor was indicted Friday with prescribing a Louisiana girl pills that caused an abortion — seemingly the first time an abortion doctor has been criminally charged since Roe v. Wade was ov...

Louisiana indicts NY doctor for telemedicine prescription. NY governor refuses extradition. For now. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Huge trade in the NBA; why would Dallas trade a 25 y.o. Luka Doncic for an older Anthony Davis. But: Dallas ownership is super MAGA, and might know that Trump will repeal green card work permits from all ‘unfriendly’ countries, including the EU! So trading Luka for an American star would make sense.

skynetresearch.com

OpenAI Strikes Deal With US Government to Use Its AI for Nuclear Weapon Security OpenAI has announced that the US National Laboratories will use its deeply flawed AI models to help with "nuclear security."

by the time the public realises the havoc these charlatans are causing, it'll probably be too late to do anything about it (if anyone is capable or powerful enough to do anything at all)

futurism.com/openai-signs...

Mississippi politician files ‘Contraception Begins at Erection Act’ "People can get up in arms and call it absurd but I can’t say that bothers me.”

Mississippi lawmaker wants to make male masturbation illegal. www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/m...

OpenAI has begun building out its robotics team Previously, OpenAI partnered with robotics startup Figure to provide the models powering the latter's humanoid robots.

Nothing to worry about, OpenAI is pushing to build AGI robots with special sensors. Nothing to worry about. venturebeat.com/ai/openai-ha...

Meta to replace 'biased' fact-checkers with moderation by users Meta says its platforms will instead rely on "community notes" from its users, an approach pioneered by X.

Imagine being biased towards the truth! Meta/ Facebook no longer even pretending to stop disinformation, apparently: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Robot chefs are taking over restaurant jobs and pushing humans out of ALL roles HUMANS could disappear entirely from restaurant kitchens as robots take over nearly all roles – including cooking and cleaning. Companies are launching unique AI robot chefs that prepare and …

More on robotic kitchens and possible tech unemployment: www.the-sun.com/tech/1318775...

Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence [Lin, Patrick, Abney, Keith, Jenkins, Ryan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence

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Moral antirealist hypocrisy when their package is stolen

Merry Christmas to all! And a little bit of Christmas glee mocking some wrongheaded people in my profession:

'It is in the Palestinian territories that the dystopian sci-fi future of autonomous killer robots has edged ever closer to reality, with Palestinians serving as test subjects for the Israeli military-industrial Complex.'

‘World’s first’ grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant announced in the US in another step for the futuristic energy | CNN If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant, able to harness this futuristic clean power and generate electricity from it by the early 203...

No longer 10 years away from being 10 years away; now just 10 years away? www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/c...

Just how fast will the takeoff be? FOOM soon? github.com/WhitzardInde...

Towards Autonomous Surface Missions on Ocean Worlds - Astrobiology Through advanced autonomy testbed programs, NASA is setting the groundwork for one of its top priorities—the search for signs of life and potentially habitable bodies

Towards Autonomous Surface Missions on Ocean Worlds
astrobiology.com/2024/12/towa... #astrobiology #robotics #droids #rovers #Enceladus #Europa #OceanWorld

Be safe!