A very good follow up to this is to ask people what they would ask their children to vote: red or blue? Do you gamble with your children’s lives or give them assured safety?
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Autonomous Vehicles and Society: Burt Rutan’s Vision
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When I was a speaker at @smooter’s innovation conference in Idaho famous airplane designer/builder/pilot Burt Rutan also gave a speech.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 25 avril 2026
Started talking about autonomous vehicles.
“When I get mine I am going to have sex in it,” he said in front of hundreds.
His TED talk… https://t.co/4zQAQbLm1tWhen I was a speaker at @smooter
’s innovation conference in Idaho famous airplane designer/builder/pilot Burt Rutan also gave a speech. Started talking about autonomous vehicles. “When I get mine I am going to have sex in it,” he said in front of hundreds. His TED talk -
Podcast Episode on Superintelligence Loss of Control and AI Immigration
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I have published an episode on @ivoox
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Are LLMs Really More Important Than Fire or Electricity?
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Are LLMs really more important than fire or electricity? “Honestly, a ton of what we’ve developed in my lifetime amounts to scaling up the delivery of information and entertainment and the frictionlessness of certain financial transactions. These are real improvements! … But
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US AI Leadership Critical for Safety and Global Competition
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‘It will kill us all so we need to slow it down.’ Who benefits from a US slowdown? Also, you set the terms of engagement by having the best capability. If you care about AI safety, it’s even more important that the US is ahead. Look, for instance at the position Europe
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Microsoft’s quality control strategy pushes experienced workers out
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Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave https://
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Education System Faces Deeper Structural Problems Emerging
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Agree with all of this. It’s just the tip of the iceberg though. Problems with all of education go much deeper, and are gradually being exposed one by one.
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Super PAC-Backed AI Agents Impersonating Journalists Raises Ethics Concerns
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This is absolutely wild. The whole thread and the longer @TheMidasProj piece are worth reading. Super PAC-backed AI agents posing as journalists is offensive to those of us who are actual journalists. (Along with this being unethical & harmful for society in many other ways.)
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8 AI Ethics Trends Redefining Trust and Accountability in 2026
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8 AI Ethics Trends That Will Redefine Trust and Accountability in 2026 As AI adoption grows, ethics, transparency and accountability will become critical priorities for organisations. Read more https://
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ends-that-will-redefine-trust-and-accountability-in-2026/
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Is It Possible to Erase Digital Memory?
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https://
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sible-to-erase-digital-memory/
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