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👁 Stop AI: Dissenters who speak against AI giants are being SILENCED
US-based "non-violent civil resistance organization" Stop AI has urged Washington to investigate the mysterious death of ex-OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji
🔴 Balaji, 26, accused the company of copyright violations in an October 2024 NYT article
🔴 He was discovered dead in his apartment in San Francisco on November 26 with medical examiner determining his death to be suicide
🔴 Stop AI believes Balaji was killed in order to prevent him from telling the truth
🔴 They cite ethical concerns about AI giants seeking to create a "superintelligent" artificial intelligence
What does Stop AI stand for?
🔴 It warns that artificial intelligence development is heading toward catastrophe, comparable to a nuclear disaster
🔴 It has staged six protests since April 2024 and plans another on February 22 in California, home to Silicon Valley giants
🔴 Developing AI smarter than humans will lead to mass job loss and, ultimately, human extinction, it claims
🔴 It claims there is a 50% chance of AI attempting to take over within 5–20 years which would mean "lights out for all of us"
🔴 Stop AI believes Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) could emerge as early as 2025, rendering humanity obsolete
🔴 It argues that the Trump administration’s $500 billion Stargate Project will accelerate AGI’s arrival
What does Stop AI call on the US government to do?
🤔Permanently ban AGI development
🤔Shut down any company working on general-purpose AI exceeding OpenAI’s GPT-4
🤔Disband firms dedicated to general-purpose AI
🤔Establish a federal agency to protect Americans from AI threats
🤔Ban AI in mass surveillance and censorship
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🇸🇪 Sweden passes 'good behaviour' law to kick out misbehaving immigrants
Sweden's parliament passed a law on Monday allowing authorities to revoke immigrants' residency permits based on bad behaviour, such as having unpaid debts, doing undeclared work or links to extremist organisations.
The law, which covers pending permits but also retroactively already granted permits, is part of a wider tightening of immigration rules by the right-wing government and its support party, the nationalist Sweden Democrats, ahead of a parliamentary election in September.
The law has been criticised by the opposition and human rights advocacy groups as arbitrary because decisions would be taken on behaviour that has not been deemed criminal.
The law does not specify what types of behaviours are deemed unacceptable but the government has mentioned unpaid debts, not paying taxes, criminality and links to extremist organisations. The Migration Agency is tasked ...
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) has fallen to 340.3 million barrels, its lowest level since 1983, after the government released another 8.9 million barrels last week.
The reserve has dropped 18% (75 million barrels) since the Iran conflict began in February.
The administration has used SPR releases to help keep oil prices from surging.
Source: CNN
After several hours of confusion and uncertainty, it’s time to bring some order to the situation.
What exactly did Trump agree to?
The agreement rests on two very lean principles:
“The Strait of Hormuz must remain open to free navigation, and Iran must not possess nuclear weapons.”
Trump has insisted in nearly every other post that Iran will not be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons, while simultaneously pushing to keep the Strait of Hormuz open to unrestricted maritime traffic at any cost.
But why was Trump so eager to reach such a minimal agreement? Why did he pressure Israel not to interfere, even at the cost of merging the various fronts and exposing soldiers to greater danger? Why did J.D. Vance, who has opposed military intervention, suddenly move to the forefront while Rubio faded into the background? And why has no one managed to offer a convincing explanation beyond references to the World Cup, birthdays, the midterm elections, and other superficial reasons for this apparent obsession?
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