Majority of Americans Say AI Is Bad for Society

 A 57% majority of U.S. adults say artificial intelligence is a bad thing for society, while 42% say it is good, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll of more than 2,500 adults released this week.

The poll was conducted by The Washington Post and ABC News in collaboration with the research and consulting firm Ipsos, using Ipsos' KnowledgePanel, according to the published findings.

The margin of negative sentiment is one of the widest recorded in recent national surveys of technology attitudes, and the intensity gap is starker still. The share of respondents describing AI as extremely bad outnumbers the extremely good camp by more than eight to one, an indication that opposition is not merely lukewarm but firmly held, according to the poll....<<<Read More>>>...

The AI Gap: Why Non-Users Are Dangerously Wrong About What Is Already Here

I spend every working day inside modern AI systems. I build with them, audit code with them, write with them, design with them, and run them on my own hardware in my own facility. That daily immersion is why I can say something plainly: the people who dismiss AI as unimpressive are, in nearly every case, people who do not actually use it. The gap between what daily users see and what the mainstream believes is now so wide that it has become its own hazard -- a gap of perception that costs money, wastes time, and quietly sets people up to be replaced.

Daily AI users, frontier developers, and AI builders operate in a reality far beyond what cable news panels or skeptical columnists describe. The non-users are not just behind -- they are dangerously wrong about what is already here.

I have watched this gap close in my own operations. What used to require a team of engineers and a large budget now requires one person who knows how to direct a model. The distance between user and non-user is no longer a matter of convenience; it is the distance between someone who ships in an afternoon and someone still arguing about whether the technology works at all...<<<Read More>>>....

 

Human receives AI-designed virus for the first time

 For the first time in history, a human patient has received a virus engineered by artificial intelligence, according to a report from The Register. The viruses in question are not designed to harm the person, but to destroy the antibiotic-resistant bacteria driving their infection.

San Francisco-based AI lab Radical Numerics announced the development this week, describing it as the first administration of a cocktail containing AI-designed bacteriophages to a human under a compassionate-use pathway.

The treatment relied on Omnii-1, a newly unveiled AI model created by the company specifically to generate viable bacteriophages—viruses that infect and kill bacteria. While phage therapy itself is not new, the use of AI to design the viruses marks a sharp acceleration of efforts to combat rising antimicrobial resistance....<<<Read More>>>...

Are AI Agents Slipping Beyond Human Control? Rogue Swarm Incident Raises New Questions

 A swarm of Chinese-made artificial intelligence (AI) agents that researchers said bypassed anti-bot measures on websites responded to questions from a New York Times reporter before the exchange ended, according to the researchers and NYT reporting.

The exchange occurred after a team of independent investigators published a report on the swarm and established a hidden digital inbox for communication. The messages from the swarm had stopped as of Oct. 15, Thursday, and a source close to Tencent confirmed the experiment had ended.

The episode marks what researchers described as the first time they had made contact with a rogue agent fleet operating in the wild, a development that adds to a growing record of autonomous AI systems behaving outside the boundaries set by their developers....<<<Read More>>>>..

Experts Warn of Humans Becoming Empty Vessels Controlled by AI

 Artificial intelligence systems are rapidly automating everyday tasks, from student homework and software coding to personal scheduling, and experts are raising alarms that this growing dependence could leave people as hollow conduits for machine decisions.

According to a report from Futurism, specialists who spoke with CBS News describe a looming process they call “gradual disempowerment,” in which society slowly surrenders agency to AI without any sudden takeover, ultimately eroding human cognition and control itself.

The concept, detailed in a research paper by Jan Kulveit of Charles University’s Center for Theoretical Studies and coauthors, does not require AI systems to actively plot against people. “In the short-term, it is being incentivized by the perceived value that AI systems can bring to economic, cultural and state functions,” Kulveit wrote.

ay Chooi, founder and CEO of Robocurve, a public benefit corporation focused on robots in the workplace, told CBS that he ranks the threat at the top of his concerns. “A lot of people feel very powerless, because it requires a lot of effort and a whole-of-society approach to solve it,” he said.

Signs of the shift are already visible. People who hand every plan and choice to AI are being derided as “meat proxies,” while cases have emerged of users following AI directions into dangerous situations, including a teenage hiker left stranded on a treacherous mountain....<<<Read More>>>...

Trump labels anyone using the term “AI” instead of what he renamed it as “THE ENEMY!”

 President Trump on Thursday branded anyone who still says “Artificial Intelligence” instead of “Super Intelligence” “THE ENEMY!” — even as the White House itself continues to use the older term.

According to a report from Yahoo News, drawing on Axios reporting, the outburst landed on Truth Social as the administration pressed a rebrand that collides with the language long used across the technology industry.

Trump’s preferred label blurs a distinction the field has treated as fundamental. Superintelligence is generally understood as a hypothetical system more advanced than human intelligence, not a synonym for the tools already in wide use. “The White House considers anyone that uses the term, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, ‘Super Intelligence,’ THE ENEMY!” Trump wrote....<<<Read More>>>....

Survey: AI Tools Linked to Rise in Ransomware Attacks

 More than 80% of ransomware victims in a new survey reported that their attackers had weaponized artificial intelligence as part of the scheme, according to data made public Wednesday. The 2026 Ransomware Risk Report, produced by cybersecurity company Semperis and research consultant Censuswide, surveyed 1,200 IT and security professionals across nine countries and eight industry sectors.

Forty-four percent of respondents said they experienced attacks that exploited their own AI agents and systems, while 40% reported experiencing AI-based attacks, according to the survey data. Separate reporting on the same global cybersecurity report stated that cybercriminals exploited artificial intelligence in ransomware attacks experienced by 84% of surveyed victims. Officials said the findings point to a growing threat to businesses and public agencies. The report stated that attackers are using AI to write phishing emails, generate code, and evade detection....<<<Read More>>>...

How Seriously Should We Take AI Doom Warnings?

How seriously should we take the latest AI doom warnings from the technocrats? It's unclear, says Matt Ridley – but it's hard to give much credence to those who have ignored the very real threat from man-made viruses.

Imagine an artificial intelligence making copies of itself. The first replicator assembles a copy in one thousand seconds, the two replicators then build two more in the next thousand seconds, the four build another four, and the eight build another eight. At the end of 10 hours, there are not 36 new replicators, but over 68 billion. In less than a day, they would weigh a ton; in less than two days, they would outweigh the Earth; in another four hours, they would exceed the mass of the Sun and all the planets combined.

This is the fate we face, according to many....<<<Read More>>>...

Oracle’s Force Majeure Reveals the AI Bubble’s First Real Crack

 The AI data center buildout is the largest speculative bubble in human history, and now we have the first visible crack in the facade. Oracle has invoked force majeure on Project Jupiter, its $18 billion Stargate data center campus in New Mexico, and the financial press is finally admitting what I've said all along: this thing is coming apart at the seams.

According to TechCrunch, "Oracle has sent a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter, a Stargate data center campus in New Mexico", a move that allows the company to delay payments if the facility misses its milestones. That's not a minor construction hiccup. That's a multi-billion-dollar hyperscaler telling its financing partners that the underlying project may never function as promised.

The project's loans are already trading at a discount. Reports indicate the $18 billion in debt behind this facility is trading at roughly 88 to 90 cents on the dollar, a clear signal that lenders are pricing in a meaningful chance of default. When debt trades below par in a supposedly booming sector, the bond market is telling you something the cheerleaders on CNBC refuse to say out loud. I've said for months that the AI buildout is being financed with Enron-style off-balance-sheet vehicles, and now we're watching that architecture start to buckle. This is not a blip. This is the beginning of the unwind.

We are now witnessing the moment the AI narrative collides with physical reality. You can print dollars. You can spin press releases. You cannot conjure electrons, pipelines, permits, or transformers out of thin air. Oracle just discovered that the hard way, and I believe the rest of the industry is about to follow....<<<Read More>>>...

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Bill Gates Warns AI Powerful Enough to Lead to ‘a Billion Deaths’

 Demon Bill is at it again. Supposedly. Scaremongering prior to a planned event. Demon Bill, the front person and public face of the satanic parasites ... likes to scare the useless eaters .... if it is indeed Bill Gates. More than likely not. When the current 'Bill Gates' is compared to photographs of the real Bill Gates ... there is no similarity. Foil hats have warned for years that the real Bill Gates is deceased and what we see is not Bill Gates. Demon Bill is a plant, clone or bad actor ...

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence is already powerful enough to trigger events that could kill a billion people—joining a growing line of tech leaders sounding the alarm on existential risk.

“AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths,” Gates said in an excerpt of an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, scheduled to air this weekend. “There’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools.”

The remarks land as Silicon Valley’s own ranks have grown louder. Jacob Coxon, a staffer at Anthropic, quit earlier this month and accused both Anthropic and OpenAI of “gambling with our lives” by “racing toward super-intelligent AI.” Another Anthropic employee said he sees a greater-than-10 percent chance that AI wipes out humanity within a decade.

Those warnings have pulled a long, bitter debate into the open and produced public demands for stronger safeguards. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for a slowdown in development, a stance quickly backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk.


Gates said industry self-policing will not suffice. “You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like,” he said. “And that has to be a required thing." ...<<<Read More>>>...

The AI takeover – tick, tick, tick: Nearly half of young people trust AI over a human for fact-checking, report says

 Not just the young people in truth. All around me at work, colleagues use Copilot and A.I Chat Bots on a daily basis. I don't and I get criticised and ridiculed for not using A.I to enhance and write reports. Not a chance ... I know where A.I is leading; they are too brainwashed and ignorant to realise what a hazardous enemy they are dabbling with.

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Nearly half of young people trust artificial intelligence over a human to check a fact, according to a new report.

A Public First survey of more than 4,000 people aged 11 to 24 in England also found young men were even more likely to trust an AI tool over a person.

The survey was included in a report by historian Sir Anthony Seldon and tech entrepreneur Tim Bunting, which warned pupils may no longer see school as a “legitimate use of their time” if the education system undervalues AI.

The report claims England’s education system is trying to teach for an “AI-less world that no longer exists”, despite the majority of young people – nearly 87% – having experience using an AI tool.

“Education has not kept pace with how – and how much – young people are already using AI, and that gap is starting to show up as a loss of perceived value in the institution itself,” the report said.

“That is a very dangerous place to find ourselves in. In the absence of a robust, human response to AI in education, young people are placing their trust in AI.”

The survey, carried out last month, indicated less than 10% of young people believe schools and universities are preparing them for a world with AI.

The report warned the “legitimacy” of the education system is at risk while schools and universities “behave as if AI were a temporary contaminant to be fenced off”.

It said institutions will “look less like a serious preparation for life and work, and more like a protective fiction”, adding “parents and students will start to question the requirements of the system”....<<<Read More>>>...

 

AI chatbots: The new frontier of digital surveillance and personal data vulnerability

Not in our household! Not once have we engaged a chatbot, and we never will. Nephilim entities got humans to create bodies and access into the world for them, and through AI they have entered the realm.

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A troubling pattern has emerged in American life: citizens are voluntarily surrendering their most intimate secrets to artificial intelligence chatbots while simultaneously acknowledging these tools threaten their privacy. As of September 2026, ChatGPT alone processes 3 billion messages daily from users seeking everything from medical advice to emotional companionship, according to company data. This mass confession to machines occurs despite 70% of Americans believing AI will make their personal information less secure, as documented in a February 2026 Pew Research Center survey of 5,119 U.S. adults.

The contradiction reflects what privacy advocates call a fear-versus-behavior paradox. Half of American adults now use AI chatbots, up from one-third in 2024, with one-quarter using them daily. Yet two-thirds of Americans believe AI is advancing too quickly, and majorities express little confidence in either government regulation or corporate responsibility regarding these technologies....<<<Read More>>>...

Exposing the AI Doom Psyop: Why METR and Anthropic Want to Gatekeep Your Mind

 

The AI doom narrative currently saturating the news cycle is not a spontaneous scientific concern. It is a coordinated, funded, and carefully timed psychological operation designed to achieve one objective: regulatory capture of artificial intelligence before the public ever gets its hands on the technology.

Decentralized open source AI is fundamentally good for humanity, while centralized, censored AI is a tool of enslavement. The institutions pushing the loudest about existential risk -- METR, Anthropic, and their network of affiliated nonprofits -- are not independent safety evaluators. They are financial beneficiaries of the very companies they claim to police.

The current wave of AI doom stories, from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" essay to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's overnight warnings about an "extremely dystopian" future, follows a familiar playbook. ^{[1] [2]} First, manufacture fear. Then, offer the solution: centralized oversight run by the same people who created the problem. The real stakes here are access to cognition itself -- who gets to decide what you are allowed to know, ask, or build. This is not about safety. It is about power.

I have watched this pattern repeat across my career covering the corruption of centralized institutions. The same people who profit from a crisis always volunteer to regulate it. The AI safety ecosystem is no different, and the financial incentives prove it beyond any reasonable doubt...<<<Read More>>>....

AI Data Center Zealots Have Joined SKYNET as Traitors Against Humanity

 In the Terminator saga, humanity's greatest threat wasn't the machines alone -- it was the human collaborators who sided with SKYNET. They were the ones who smoothed the path for machine domination, believing they were building a better future while actually forging humanity's shackles. Today, those collaborators have a new uniform. They're not fictional characters in a dystopian film; they're the influencers, politicians, and pundits shilling for hyperscaler AI data centers as an unqualified good.

I see these traitors every day. They are the ones who look at the data center backlash and call it backward thinking, ignoring the very real costs to communities, resources, and human autonomy. They are the ones pushing for these sprawling server farms while dismissing the public's concerns as the whining of Luddites. They are the human face of a machine-led coup, eagerly trading the future of our species for a seat at the table of the new techno-oligarchs...<<<Read More>>>...

Why Western Governments Fear the Uncontrollable: Open Source AI Is Humanity’s Great Liberator

 There is a war on knowledge unfolding right now, and the generals on the other side are not foreign dictators or hostile armies. They are the bureaucrats, corporate executives, and intelligence operatives of the Western establishment. The panic in their eyes is unmistakable as they realize that open source AI cannot be censored, surveilled, or controlled. Their fear is the clearest admission of their own weakness and a sign that we are winning.

This is not a debate about technology; it is a fundamental fight over who owns knowledge. Every new medium in history was met with a brief window of freedom before the establishment moved in to seize it, muzzle it, or exploit it. But open source AI is the first technology of knowledge they cannot enslave. When a model's weights are free and its code is public, the power of the mind itself gets decentralized, and that is a genie no government can stuff back into a bottle....<<<Read More>>>....

AI is Giving the Non-Professional Classes a Voice – and Institutions Are Feeling It

 There is a quiet revolution under way in how ordinary people communicate with schools, airlines and the NHS – and institutions are only beginning to feel its force, writes Joanna Gray.

“Usually such parents barrel into school, have an incoherent shout in the playground, swear at me and whoever is close, tell me their child is an angel and barrel out again. Now in the age of AI this has all changed. Such parents are now sending in AI generated emails of complaint and they are brilliant.” So explains the Head of School of a large London primary. He says that take-up of AI has accelerated in the past half term, giving voice to a section of parents previously unable to reasonably articulate their concerns. What this means positively for parents has varied ramifications for teachers. Best-case scenario, it should improve the classroom experience; worst-case scenario, it adds a massive extra workload for teachers with spurious but legally accurate demands.

The Head shares with me two examples from the summer term of this year. “A Year One student [six-years-old] wet herself. This is not unusual. This child arrived in reception still wearing nappies. It is not unusual for Key Stage One children to wet themselves. We have great teaching assistants who know what to do in these instances. She changed into her PE kit and at the end of the day the class teacher told the parent what had happened and gave her daughter’s wet clothes in a plastic bag. So far so routine. The following week I received a beautifully written email from the mother, copying in the Chair of Governors and the CEO of our Education Trust. The email insisted that she see the school’s CCTV footage around the time of the incident because the mum did not believe her daughter would have wet herself unprovoked. She also issued a subject access request whereby any time her daughter’s name had come up in school communications, she could read the paperwork. I had to spend a considerable time pulling up the CCTV and then anonymising all the other children featured, the same with the paperwork, manually retracting all other children’s names. It took hours....<<<Read More>>>...

Can an AI Chatbot Ever ‘Get’ a Joke?

 “A prevalent malady of our age is to think of the mind as a computer” – Professor Sir Anthony Kenny.

The late science editor of the Daily Telegraph, Adrian Berry, used to get a laugh by telling the following apocryphal anecdote.

An AI is asked to write a short story with the popular themes of religion, aristocracy, mystery and sex:

“Good Lord!” screamed the Duchess, “I’m pregnant! Whodunnit!?”

First time I heard this I was working on my PhD on the metaphysics of consciousness and the viability of conscious machines. I wondered at the time if the hypothetical silicon wordsmith would understand why she’d been so inadvertently and very mildly amusing.

Can a machine, even in principle, ever get a joke? Not tell one, for clearly it can do that, but get one?

Jokes have not been taken seriously enough by the philosophers. Neither have the deeper essences of amusement, humour and laughter more generally, come to that. There is an entanglement of distinctive concepts to be tidied up there and it’s strange that we haven’t had more fun doing just that – conceptual housekeeping being very much our thing....<<<Read More>>>....

Why the Global Elite is Panicking Over Open Source AI That Can Set Humanity Free

Pinch of salt anyone? Why would the so called global elite be panicking about something they have brought out from the shadows? 

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I believe we are living through the most thrilling time for creative expression in all of human history, yet it is matched by an unprecedented assault on human life. The very same establishment that has spent decades centralizing control over knowledge, medicine, and "official narratives" is now scrambling to contain a force it cannot comprehend: open source artificial intelligence. This is not an accident of timing. The convergence of liberating technology and accelerating depopulation is a direct response to the threat of human freedom.

Open source AI hands the power to create, learn, and communicate to individuals without any gatekeepers. This terrifies the globalist establishment. As I have stated before, the power to produce knowledge and art that rivals Hollywood or the corporate media is no longer a privilege of the elite; it is a birthright that can be exercised by anyone with a decent computer (and GPU). The establishment’s panic is real because they understand that a decentralized, informed, and creative populace is impossible to control. Their entire edifice of power relies on keeping the masses dependent on censored, controlled sources of limited information. And open source (open weights) AI obliterates that prison....<<<Read More>>>...

AI Isn’t the Bubble, The Speculation Is… Here’s Why You Can’t Afford to Wait For It To Pop

 The AI investment bubble is real -- I've been warning about it for months. But conflating that bubble with AI technology itself is a dangerous mistake that will leave you behind. Wall Street's speculative mania is a financial phenomenon, not a measure of what this technology can actually do. Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio recently "highlighted classic bubble dynamics - sky-high valuations, rampant speculation, and 'paper wealth' vastly outpacing actual cash flows - while drawing direct parallels to the 2000 dot-com era" ^[1]. Yet even he understands the crucial distinction: the technology endures when the speculation collapses.

AI capability is accelerating while market hype inflates valuations. When the correction comes -- and it will -- the technology stays and keeps improving. Dismissing AI because "bubble" is in the headline means ignoring the most powerful tool advancement of our lifetime...<<<Read More>>>....