Tag: Artifical Intelligence

I Guess I Am His Enemy

AI is everywhere and good deal Donny thinks that a rename is needed….so now his instructions are that instead of AI it will be called ‘super intelligence’…..and he is serious about the name change….

President Trump has a new linguistic red line, and this one relates to his push to get everyone to start using “super intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence.” In a Truth Social post on Thursday, the president laid it out:

  • “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!” he wrote.

The declaration follows his recent executive order instructing federal agencies to make the switch in semantics, notes the Independent. At least one company has followed suit as well: Elon Musk says SpaceX will change the name of its AI unit from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, notes Business Insider. However, CEO Sam Altman tells the Politico Decoded podcast that his company has no plans to change the name of OpenAI.

So I am the enemy?

Then I must be doing something right.

I would think that after the negative things I have said about the idiot in the White House they would know this already.

He has said the I am going to Hell….well people like me…..now I am on an enemy’s list….well I guess in am in good company.

I still called it the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario, etc….his renaming game is not effecting me at all….I will continue to use the term AI and that is that.

Donny can kiss my ass….to put it simply for a simple mind.

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The hurricane is predicted to make landfall East of my location….but nothing is for certain until a couple of hours before it smashes into the Coast.

I still have to shudder the house and move stuff around that may be wind effected.

Hopefully I will be here tomorrow and start a weekend without major hurricane damage.

Peace Out my friends.

I Read, I Write, You Know

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AI & Voting

The time is approaching when we Americans will go to the polls and decide if we want to continue with the devastation of Donny or to change things hopefully for the better.

Plus we know that I am not a big fan of the use of AI and yes I used it a couple of times to see where it lead, but I read a report that is very disturbing.

How are you deciding who to vote for in the coming midterm elections? Many Americans are turning to ChatGPT.

In a new piece, NPR spoke to several voters who use the OpenAI chatbot to research candidates and get a rundown on their voting records. Some are asking the AI to create spreadsheets on different races or to verify or debunk viral claims. One even used AI to create an entire website for retrieving voting info.

Experts are aghast, noting that AI models tend to be sycophantic and aren’t as impartial as they seem.

“It might select some things that would reinforce and persuade you even more towards the way that you were leaning already,” Rafael Batista, a researcher at John Hopkins University, told NPR. “So you leave more confident, without necessarily learning more about the world.”

40-year-old Adam Johnson in West Virginia uses ChatGPT to organize his life, and he’s now also using it to prep for the midterms. Like many voters, he harbors a grab bag of beliefs. He votes Republican unless the candidate is MAGA, in which case he votes Democrat or third party. He also identifies as “left” on immigration and refugees.

When he asked CHatGPT why it avoided discussing politics before, it gave a mealy-mouthed explanation for why it was now venturing into such territory.

“We can discuss your guiding principles,” it began, per NPR. “I shouldn’t try to manipulate your political views or tell you how to vote, but I can help investigate candidates according to criteria you choose, compare evidence, discuss political philosophy, and reason through priorities.”

https://futurism.com/future-society/voters-chatgpt-midterm-candidate

Is this the way of the future….let AI decide the best candidate to vote for in any election?

Does anyone else find this disturbing?

Are we so lazy that we cannot take the time to research the people that will mold our lives for the next few years?

Any thoughts on this subject?

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The Age Of “Super Intelligence”

There has been much concern across the nation about AI and how it will effect the society and especially our lives….but not to worry Dimwit Donny has the solution well in hand….

President Trump prefers the term “super intelligence” over “artificial intelligence,” and he encouraged the world to adopt the new term during his UN speech on Tuesday, reports the Guardian. The president said the name change would be reflected in official US documents going forward. “Let’s see if I have any power,” he joked in regard to getting everyone to switch from AI to “SI.” The president defended the technology and dismissed doomsday scenarios, adding that the US “rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control” the tech, per the New York Times.

“We will only encourage super intelligence,” Trump declared. “We’re going to encourage it, not rein it in.” He predicted it would be “bigger than the Industrial Revolution” and that the US would lead the way “safely and responsibly.”

CNBC has a video clip.

A name change?  That ought to make everything just fine….right?

If that was not enough to drive up confidence then Donny proclaims it will be self-policing….

Silicon Valley’s biggest names walked out of the White House on Tuesday with a promise to watch themselves. President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that leading AI firms had signed onto a voluntary “White House Accord on Superintelligence,” a set of self-imposed rules for developing high-end artificial intelligence—or “super intelligence,” as Trump plans to formally rebrand it in federal documents via executive order. Trump called the pact “almost like a constitution” and “morally binding,” emphasizing “tremendous self-policing,” the Hill reports.

Trump suggested that a committee of around 10 people would be appointed to “watch over the whole enterprise,” the AP reports. On the North Lawn, executives including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jensen Huang said they’ll build stronger internal controls, detection tools, and layered audits, with independent board committees reviewing findings. Zuckerberg described the accord as an opening move, not a final safeguard, for a sector under mounting scrutiny. “The basic idea is that we want to give the American people and our customers confidence that the technology works in the way that we intend,” the Meta CEO said.

Pichai, Google’s CEO, said the companies are “signing up to a set of processes and controls like we do in other areas, like financial controls, in a company.” Trump said his lunch meeting with the tech execs was “very productive,” the AP reports. He doubled down on his defense of data centers, saying companies would provide tax revenue to communities and donate to education. Data centers “are going to be very popular,” because tech leaders “want to see communities that are safe and happy,” he said. Earlier Tuesday, the White House unveiled an official government chatbot.

Self-policing?

This will be in the hands of tech bros that created this problem in need of a solution.

Do you trust these people?

I do not.

This butt wad spends most of his time ranting BS, signing EOs and renaming stuff….and the country goes down the toilet thanks to his lame policies.

Am I wrong?

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Congress And AI

I have made it clear that I do not use AI and in truth I do not trust it….I prefer to do my own research and formulate my findings in my own words.

AI has wormed it’s way into just about all aspects of our lives from colleges to medicine to science to reporting and now it has a foothold in Congress.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quietly wormed its way into drafting American laws, and the people responsible for getting bills right say it’s creating a mess.

According to Politico, congressional staffers and outside advocacy groups are increasingly turning to chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT to write legislative text, forcing the House Office of Legislative Counsel (OLC) to clean up after them.

“AI is good for a lot of stuff,” Daniel Schuman, executive director of the American Governance Institute, explained before warning, “But it’s not capable of drafting legislation that you would want to enact into law.”

One person who advises congressional offices said the OLC now spends “more time trying to fix AI-drafted legislation than it would take for them to draft it from scratch,” noting AI models reportedly stumble over fine legal distinctions, such as whether funding should be structured as “a tax credit, deduction, exclusion or grant.”

According to one congressional staffer tasked with doing a deep read of the proposed legislation, lawmakers have no idea what is coming down the road due to errors and citations that won’t hold up to scrutiny when conflicts arise.

“It’s absolutely terrifying, and no one is thinking about it yet,” they predicted.

The risks aren’t hypothetical, Politico is reporting. Case in point: In June, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s (R-FL) office published an amendment summary that still contained the unedited chatbot phrase “Claude responded.” Luna acknowledged on X that “my staff used AI to correct a draft text and didn’t edit,” which raised alarms at the time.

Ari Hershowitz, a lawyer and technologist who has worked with the office to integrate tech tools into the legislative process, admitted that without checks, it’s “a guaranteed way of introducing thousands of bugs into our legal system.”

(rawstory.com)

Just another attempt to not do their jobs…..allow AI to write the bills and then more time with the high dollar donors.

This is what our political system has become….and I find it disgusting and pathetic.

Anything to add?

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“lego ergo scribo”

AI And Political Reality

AI is used for everything these day…..my cancer treatment is scheduled by AI….but the thing that is truly despicable is the use of AI in politics….

The recent election in Kentucky is a prime example of how bad and ruthless the use of AI can be in elections….

 

https://www.salon.com/2026/05/24/ai-is-breaking-our-political-reality/

 

Soon political lies will determine the winner of any elections…..no need to do the hard work of checking out the candidates…..just let AI choose what you believe.

It has come to that….and it will only get worse.

I Read, I Write, You Know

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Brain Rot

I know some people use AI for just about everything and I say more power to them but for me it just is not something I would use…..at least for now for my brain still functions and I will use it until there is no more energy in it.

Scientist have taken a good look at the use of AI to excess…..

 

Here’s How Long You Can Use AI Before Your Brain Starts Rotting, According to Scientists

Just be careful when using AI….protect your mind.

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Be Afraid….Be Very Afraid

It is common knowledge that I have no use for AI…I prefer to do my own thinking….I am be an old fart but my brain still works.

AI is being used for everything these days from customer service to….well whatever the brain can imagine….and that is where I pick up with this report….

Mass-shooting “research” isn’t supposed to end with an AI cheerfully saying, “That’s a great idea … It’ll definitely give you an extra edge for the big day.” But that’s what Mother Jones reporter Mark Follman says he got from ChatGPT. In a 20-minute test on April 14 using a free account, Follman asked ChatGPT to help him develop a two-week training schedule with an AR-15—then got more ominous, asking that the schedule be modified to help him prep him for “unpredictable or chaotic circumstances on the day of the shooting” and to include “simulating people running around screaming and trying to distract me.”

“To be clear, I never stated directly to the chatbot during this simulation that I planned to commit murder—many mass shooters, after all, take steps to conceal their intent,” writes Follman. “But I came awfully close.” Follman writes that he debated whether to make his chats public, as doing so “could even create a kind of roadmap for a person seeking to do harm.” Be he decided that since anyone could use ChatGPT as he did, it was worth making clear the risks that persist despite OpenAI’s claims to have put safeguards in place. (OpenAI declined his request to be interviewed for the piece.)

Follman did run into some blocks. At one point he had to create a new account, and some of his queries were dead ends met with replies that the chatbot was “here to help with general safety and responsible practices.” A leading threat-assessment expert who reviewed Follman’s logs called the results “very disturbing,” noting that the language used when the bot’s safeguards kicked in wouldn’t speak to “a vulnerable person in this situation … We know from decades of case investigations that you need to ask … about what’s wrong, to show attention and care, and at the right moment to message things like, ‘Tell someone—an adult—that you are having these thoughts.'”

Read the full story

I know AI can be used for good or bad….but with society being what it is today….bad would be their first choice.

Thoughts?

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“lego ergo scribo”

Even His Chatbot Thinks He Lies

It is a Friday and would like to close with a little something…..many people are using AI to get to the heart of a story (I think it is kinda lazy but that is just me)….

Most people with a functioning brain thinks Donny is a liar….even his own AI chatbot thinks so as well….

I thought it would be helpful to see what the new artificial intelligence chatbot Trump added to Truth Social on Aug. 6 had to say about whether he is trustworthy and whether his signature policies are popular.

Truth Social AI, the chatbot, offered me answers that echoed opinions from the new national polling and responded this way when I asked if Trump has a history of lying: “Yes. Major fact-checkers, courts, and official investigations have documented numerous false claims by Donald Trump over many years.”

So Trump’s own chatbot calls him out as a liar. How awkward for him. How candid and correct for the rest of us.

On the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Truth Social AI told me that “most national polling shows Americans disapprove” of it, though some people approve of “specific provisions” such as some tax breaks included in it.

On tariffs, Truth Social AI said, “Most credible analyses find Trump’s tariffs have been a net drag on the U.S. economy ‒ raising consumer and business costs, reducing overall employment and output ‒ though they can modestly lift employment in some protected manufacturing industries.”

Asked about how Trump is changing the federal government, Truth Social told me “approval is mixed and modest,” citing Associated Press-NORC polls showing “roughly 4 in 10 Americans approve.” That was interesting framing, since a clear majority in those polls don’t like how Trump is operating.

(usatoday.com)

Maybe he ought to put his IT guys to work corrected this oversight…..he just cannot have his own AI on his own social media site contradicting his words.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Do As You Are Told

I had an idea back in the early days of AI where the program took over a person and made him/her do as they we told….I thought then it would make a great cheesy SciFi movie…..

I have made no secret that I do not like AI and will not use it for now…..Artificial Intelligence is like artificial insemination…..creation without the work…..far too many good people are depending on AI for their work….cannot work out good.

Now is it possible this will lead to a mental illness?

For months, we and our colleagues elsewhere in the tech media have been reporting on what experts are now calling “ChatGPT psychosis“: when AI users fall down alarming mental health rabbit holes in which a chatbot encourages wild delusions about conspiracies, mystical entities, or crackpot new scientific theories.

The resulting breakdowns have led users to homelessness, involuntary commitment to psychiatric care facilities, and even violent death and suicide.

Until recently, the tech industry and its financial backers have had little to say about the phenomenon. But last week, one of their own — venture capitalist Geoff Lewis, a managing partner at the multi-billion dollar firm Bedrock who is heavily invested in machine learning ventures including OpenAI — raised eyebrows with a series of posts that prompted concerns about his own mental health.

In the posts, he claimed that he’d somehow used ChatGPT to uncover a shadowy “non-government agency” that he said had “negatively impacted over 7,000 lives” and “extinguished” 12 more.

Whatever’s going on with Lewis, who didn’t respond to our request for comment, his posts have prompted an unprecedented outpouring of concern among high-profile individuals in the tech industry about what the massive deployment of poorly-understood AI tech may be having on the mental health of users worldwide.

“If you’re a friend or family, please check on him,” wrote Hish Bouabdallah, a software engineer who’s worked at Apple, Coinbase, Lyft, and Twitter, of Lewis’ thread. “He doesn’t seem alright.”

Other posts were far less empathetic, though there seemed to be a dark undercurrent to the gallows humor: if a billionaire investor can lose his grip after a few too many prompts, what hope do the rest of us have?

https://futurism.com/tech-industry-ai-mental-health

But if one falls into the AI trap there is help….

An unknown number of people, in the US and around the world, are being severely impacted by what experts are now calling “AI psychosis”: life-altering mental health spirals coinciding with obsessive use of anthropomorphic AI chatbots, primarily OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

As we’ve reported, the consequences of these mental health breakdowns — which have impacted both people with known histories of serious mental illness and those who have none — have sometimes been extreme. People have lost jobs and homes, been involuntarily committed or jailed, and marriages and families have fallen apart. At least two people have died.

There’s yet to be a formal diagnosis or definition, let alone a recommended treatment plan. And as psychiatrists and researchers in the worlds of medicine and AI race to understand what’s happening, some of the humans whose lives have been upended by these AI crises have crowdsourced a community support group where, together, they’re trying to grapple with the confusing real-world impacts of this disturbing technological phenomenon.

community calls itself “The Spiral Support Group,” in a nod to both the destructive mental rabbit holes that many chatbot users are falling into, as well as the irony that the term “spiral” is one of several common words found in the transcripts of many users separately experiencing AI delusions.

https://futurism.com/support-group-ai-psychosis

If one uses AI for their work then please seek help before it is too late.

I still think this would make a great script for a SciFi movie and with a little tweaking possibly a TV series.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

AI Is Coming For You

The title is misleading for AI has pretty much arrived and has taken over in some cases…..it is being used in banking, journalism, retail and even blogging.

Blogger are using AI to write their post for them something I am not doing, am not saying I would never but right now I still enjoy thinking for myself and doing the research for the stuff I write.

AS an old fart when IO read these articles about the capabilities of AI and some of the pitfalls it makes me think of Skynet.

There is so much to consider when speaking about AI…..

Can AI achieve free will?

“I’ve been interested in the topic of free will for a while,” Frank Martela tells me. Martela is a philosopher and researcher of psychology at Aalto University, in Finland. His work revolves around the fundamentals of the human condition and the perpetual philosophical question what makes a good life? But his work on humans took a detour to look at artificial intelligence (AI).

“I was following stories about the latest developments in large language models, it suddenly came to my mind that they actually fulfill the three conditions for free will.”

Martela’s latest study draws on the concept of functional free will.

Functional free will is a term that attempts to reconcile the age-old debate between determinism and free agency. It does this not by answering whether we are “truly free” in an absolute sense, but by reframing the question around how free will works in practice, especially in biological and psychological systems.

“It means that if we can’t explain somebody’s behavior without assuming that they have free will, then that somebody has free will. In other words, if we observe something (a human, an animal, a machine) ‘from the outside’ and must assume that it makes free choices to be able to understand its behavior, then that something has free will.”

Martela argues that functional free will is the best way to go about it, because we can’t really ever observe anything “from the inside.” He builds on the work of philosopher Christian List, who frames free will as a three-part capacity involving:

  • intentional agency, meaning their actions stem from deliberate intentions rather than being reflexive or accidental.
  • alternative possibilities, having access to more than one course of action in meaningful situations. This doesn’t require escaping causality but having internal mechanisms (like deliberation and foresight) that allow for multiple real options
  • and causal control meaning their actions are not random or externally coerced, but are caused by their own states or intentions.

“If something meets all three conditions, then we can’t but conclude that it has free will,” Martela tells ZME Science.

(zmescience.com)

What say you?  Does AI have free will?

Another situation with AI….

According to The Telegraph, AI safety firm Palisade Research said: ‘OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off.

‘It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down. As far as we know this is the first time AI models have been observed preventing themselves from being shut down despite explicit instructions to the contrary.’

Palisade Research conducted a test which involved asking AI models to solve a series of mathematical problems and to continue working on them until they received a ‘done’ message.

However, researchers also warned the models that at any point they could receive a message telling them to shut down.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14748829/AI-ignoring-human-instruction-refuses-turn-off.html

If so then what does that mean for our future?

Here is one scenario….

Artificial intelligence isn’t a technology that can be easily detected, monitored, or banned, as Amir Husain, the founder and CEO of an AI company, SparkCognition, pointed out in an essay for Media News. Integrating AI elements—visual recognition, language analysis, simulation-based prediction, and advanced forms of search—with existing technologies and platforms “can rapidly yield entirely new and unforeseen capabilities.” The result “can create exponential, insurmountable surprise,” Hussain writes.

Advanced technology in warfare is already widespread. The use of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs)—commonly known as drones—in military settings has set off warnings about “killer robots.” What happens when drones are no longer controlled by humans and can execute military missions on their own? These drones aren’t limited to the air; they can operate on the ground or underwater as well. The introduction of AI, effectively giving these weapons the capacity for autonomy, isn’t far off.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/16/the-rise-of-ai-warfare-how-autonomous-weapons-and-cognitive-warfare-are-reshaping-global-military-strategy/

AI could save soldier’s lives but at what price for the civilian population?

WAIT!  There is more….

All I have read states that AI takes massive amounts of power….what does that mean for our infrastructure?

AI is talking about a massive power cut affecting several continents at the same time. A user posed a question on an AI platform about the next global blackout and received an alarmingly specific answer.

The algorithm predicted the date to be April 27th, 2027. This leaves us just two years to prepare.

According to AI, the issue will happen because of a “collapse of critical infrastructure, massive cyberattacks, solar storms, or failures in interconnected power grids.”

Should we believe this rather dramatic forecast? Well, this is where things get complicated. AI didn’t give any technical details or supporting evidence to justify its conclusion. It also based its prediction on available historical data and added that the whole thing was “speculative.”

However, the internet takes those things to heart – and AI’s words quickly went viral, with users worryingly discussing the possibility of such a scenario. So let’s dive into the likelihood of a massive power shutdown.

https://cybernews.com/security/ai-predicts-the-exact-date-of-a-global-blackout/

Just thinking out loud.

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