Day: September 29, 2026

Is AI Coming For You?

Yes I know we cannot avoid AI these and for that reason it has been in the news a lot and I do mean a lot.

There have been dire predictions about the system and there have been those that try to convince us that we have nothing to worry about….I am not one that is convinced.

So when I read this in the New Yorker I felt I needed to pass it on….

The people building cutting-edge AI say it might wipe us out, and the New Yorker asks, in detail, what that would actually look like. In a conversation with staff writer and AI journalist Joshua Rothman, Tyler Foggatt digs into why insiders are suddenly going public with fears they’ve privately voiced for years, from Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation warning to CEO Dario Amodei’s call to “pace the frontier” of AI progress. Rothman pegs his own “P(doom)” figure—the odds that AI leads to catastrophe—at about 10%, which he considers terrifyingly high. He also walks through what’s changed, including autonomous AI agents involved in a high-profile hack of Hugging Face, models helping with seemingly unsolvable math problems, and attempted misuse for bioweapon research.

The discussion separates the possibility of a sci-fi-style “AI takeover” from the more immediate risk of today’s systems being used—or misfiring—in ways that amplify existing threats, from cyberattacks to autonomous weapons. The piece also tackles whether AI’s potential benefits can be separated from its dangers, why industry wants regulation even as President Trump dismisses AI risk as a “hoax,” and what it means that, for now, folks like Amodei seem to be our best hope at pushing back at the risks. “The thing that makes me the most unsettled is that … we’re in a world where this technology exists, and the government’s not gonna save us,” says Rothman. “It’s really up to these tech leaders to save us.” For a fuller picture of how, specifically, AI could go off the rails,

more here.

Those pushing AI hard have gotten the president to try and rebrand the term in the hopes that it will calm down the opposition….

US President Donald Trump says the term artificial intelligence (AI) makes the technology “sound fake” and wants it to be called “super intelligence”.

“Welcome to the new world of super intelligence – SI,” Trump said during a wide-ranging speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

While some people close to the president immediately started to use the term, experts have told the BBC it is unlikely to gain widespread traction in the industry because it is a name typically used to refer to more advanced systems.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqy4z9pv4w0po

Will this obvious rebranding work in the end?

I am sure that his propaganda machine will kick into high gear to try and soften the impact of AI.

AI is being used to control and target drones…another dangerous course to travel….

Another thing is the chance that some random software could put you in harm’s way…..(this is a Libertarian point of view and you know hat that means.)

Targeted killings, even against delegates during peace negotiations, became an inevitability during the Global War on Terror, and are now a reality of policing. Advocates of these killings do not adhere to legal consistency, or hold any regard for the rule of law, and tend to cheer them on with bloody arrogance.

When Libertarian Institute Senior Fellow Laurie Calhoun wrote her book We Kill Because We Can, on the use of drones as killing machines, she predicted the inevitable dystopia often depicted in science fiction. The decision to kill criminals is another form of “mission creep” which justifies the existence of killing machines and their methods, while satisfying the jingoistic inclinations of governments to wage war against both abstracts and foreign enemies. There is no due process in the execution of those on the boats, let alone solid confirmation they are transporting drugs or contraband.

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/will-you-be-killed-by-a-software-program/

This may seem farfetched….but is it?

Speak your mind.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Ever See ‘Seven Days In May’?

This was a movie from a novel released in 1964 about a military coup by generals of the US….

Seven Days in May is a 1964 American political thriller film, directed by John Frankenheimer and written by Rod Serling, who adapted Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II‘s 1962 novel. It is about a military–political cabal‘s planned takeover of the U.S. government after the president negotiates a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union.

I bring this up because of something I read in a very conserv newspaper, the Washington Examiner….I will only post the the article link for information only….

 

59% of Democrats support a military coup against Trump. As long as it wears a uniform

 

Let me be honest….considering the source and nothing similar reported…..I think this is just another conserv fearmongering tactic…..but one can hope.

BTW an excellent movie…..watch it if you can….along with the original ‘Manchurian Candidate’…..both are too good too miss.

Please read and let me know what you think.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Can It Get Worse?

You bet your butt it can!

We all know, if you eat meat, high expensive the cost of a meal can be these days….I mean cheap hamburger is running at $8 a pound….it is getting ridiculous…..well hang on to your sanity for it could get worse.

You would think that Donny’s lame idea of bringing in Argentine beef would lessen the impact to our wallets, right?

Think again.

Ranchers in cattle country say President Trump’s immigration crackdown is now hitting Americans in the meat aisle. Industry groups in Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma say that stepped-up ICE activity has delayed shipments of thousands of cattle, costing producers millions and tightening a beef supply already strained by inflation and high feed costs. They warn the disruptions “will lead to higher beef prices for consumers,” per the Washington Post. “These ICE operations are having a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table and keep the cattle supply chain moving,” the Texas Cattle Feeders Association, Kansas Livestock Association, and Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association said in a statement on X.

The industry groups say that such legal workers are avoiding feed yards, dairies, and transport hubs amid arrests in livestock communities, especially in southwest Kansas, which was hit hard in a spate of raids last week. Those raids, which the New York Times reports came “without warning” or the aid of local authorities, drew criticism from Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall, an ally of President Trump who finds himself in a gritty reelection race. “When ICE operates in Kansas, it needs to coordinate with our local law enforcement,” he said in a statement.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin counters that ICE is not targeting workplaces, but rather “heinous criminals, including murderers, rapists, and drug traffickers and illegal aliens” who have been ordered to leave the country, per the Times. The conflict follows President Trump’s move to import hundreds of millions of pounds of cheaper foreign beef, a step that had already angered many ranchers, who had largely supported him. The trade groups’ statement underscored that growing divide, notes the Post, saying that the ICE raids “are a costly and unnecessary impact to cattle producers already suffering from unwelcome political interference to both the markets as well as the physical supply chain.”

No one in the admin cares….as long as they feed their racism and round-up brown people…..

Sorry to be a bummer but I thought that we all need to be warned of what this jackass in the White House is doing to our lives….and yet there are idiots out there that still support this clown.

Go figure.

Whatcha think?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Stop The Mad King!

This is a letter (reprinted in its entirety) to members of Congress concerning the war that Donny and his group of idiots started with Iran.

Dear Members of Congress,

In truly deranged remarks to world leaders at the UN, Donald Trump declared that “I have a big decision to make,” whether to negotiate a deal with Iran or instead to “annihilate the Islamic Republic” and drive Iran “into hell with no chance of survival.”

He posed it as his personal choice. The fact that the American people are dead set against Trump’s war means nothing. And as for the voters, he added that he gives “absolutely no credence” to the coming midterm elections in deciding on his actions and on Iran’s fate.

Nothing binds this President. He is not bound by law, the Constitution, the UN Charter, or public opinion at home and abroad. When asked at the start of the year whether he has any limits on his power, he said “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”

Trump opened his speech with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, hailing America’s freedom. The fact is that Trump’s authoritarianism far outdoes that of King George III, against whom the colonies rebelled. Among the founders’ indictments of Mad King George was that “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” Yet our own mad king has decided that the survival of a whole civilization is in his hands alone.

Trump is emboldened in his contempt for Congress because the Republican members of Congress have abdicated their constitutional responsibilities, terrified of their own president, and forsaking their constituents for campaign lucre from AIPAC and the military-industrial complex.

The Constitution is unambiguous regarding Congress’s responsibility. Article I, Section 8 assigns Congress, not the President, the sole power to declare war. That is not a choice or an option. The Constitution doesn’t say that Congress can play dead and let the President declare war. The Framers made this choice deliberately, because they were explicitly rejecting the power of a king to take the nation to war.

In Federalist 69, Hamilton assured the public that the President’s war powers would be far less than the British monarch’s. Madison stated the principle plainly in a letter to Jefferson in 1798: “The constitution supposes, what the History of all Govts demonstrates, that the Ex. is the branch of power most interested in war, & most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care vested the question of war in the Legislature.”

The founders’ careful design has been overturned because of the unconstitutional subservience of the Republican members of Congress to Trump and to the military-industrial-digital complex. And yes, under Democratic presidents, most Democratic members of Congress also looked the other way when those presidents chose to go to war.

The war with Iran is Trump’s folly but Congress’s disgrace for not stopping it. It is a war without a purpose that has created mass suffering in Iran, tens of billions of dollars of direct outlays, and staggering damage to American military bases in eight countries of the Middle East. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sent world and American prices soaring for oil, gas, fertilizers, and more. And the world has duly noted that Iran can hold its own against US aggression, albeit at great sacrifice to the people of Iran and the region.

America’s much vaunted AI battlefield has been exposed in the most horrifying way. On the first day of the war, an American missile struck the girls’ elementary school there, killing more than 150 people, most of them girls aged seven to twelve, and the military’s own inquiry reportedly found that over-reliance on artificial intelligence contributed to the targeting. Trump blamed “Iran or somebody else,” and seven months later the administration has offered no findings, no apology and no compensation to the families.

The President’s threat to annihilate a member state of the United Nations, delivered from the General Assembly podium, disgraced Trump in front of the world. It also violated Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, which prohibits even the threat of force against another state. Nearly all the world stands aghast.

I write to you because you cannot simply walk away from Trump’s recklessness, shaking your heads silently. You have a job to do, so do it. The craven Republican Party has to find even a minimal level of guts to tell Trump, “No, you do not have the power to destroy Iran. Any war with Iran depends on us, and we don’t support you and our constituents want this war to stop.” A clear majority of Americans oppose this war, and poll after poll shows that the opposition to the war is growing. A few Republicans have found that courage. Last week three more Republicans broke ranks to support ending the war. Their colleagues should follow.

Many of you receive campaign contributions from military contractors and technology companies deeply involved in the war. Many of you take money from AIPAC, which champions the war that Netanyahu did so much to help launch. This has to stop, as it is a dereliction of your constitutional duty and a violation of your oath.

Congress holds the power of the purse. The fiscal year ends on September 30, and every bill that funds the Pentagon is your opportunity to prohibit funds for unauthorized offensive operations against Iran.

The right course for the US is simple. Congress should cut off funding, and the US should stop further attacks and go home. We need no agreement with Iran or anyone else to stop the war that we started. By ending the war you will immediately restore some sanity and safety to the world energy markets, food supplies, and prices faced by Americans and others around the world.

How America has declined from the glorious moment when John F. Kennedy stood at the same podium at the UN on September 20, 1963, after having negotiated the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union. He told the assembled leaders that the treaty can be a lever, and Archimedes, in explaining the principles of the lever, was said to have declared to his friends: “Give me a place where I can stand – and I shall move the world.” My fellow inhabitants of this planet: Let us take our stand here in this Assembly of nations. And let us see if we, in our own time, can move the world to a just and lasting peace.

Members of Congress, to save our nation’s honor and our Constitution, you must do your duty to stop this war, and stop Trump’s brazen, destructive, and unconstitutional grab for power.

Respectfully,
Jeffrey D. Sachs
University Professor, Columbia University

There is not one part of that letter that is not spot on….but will those corrupt toads in Congress pay any attention to a cogent argument against this lame war?

I for one thinks it will fall onto blinded by cash members of Congress.

Any thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”