Artificial Intelligence and Public Comment

[SAJ-99]

A lot of worrying stats in this article. It gets crazier by the day.

How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors

From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.

www.wired.com

 

[SAJ-99]

Good short article on new robotics and automation, but a little frightening. Watch the video and look at the comparison to last year, which everyone laughed at. The pace of improvement is incredible.

https://www.reuters.com/sports/humanoid-robots-race-past-humans-beijing-half-marathon-showing-rapid-advances-2026-04-19/

 

[Hammsolo]

I was listening to the Triggernometry. Terrifying!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/triggernometry/id1375568988?i=1000761608117

 

[SAJ-99]

I was listening to the Triggernometry. Terrifying!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/triggernometry/id1375568988?i=1000761608117

Well, that certainly didn't cheer me up on the subject. Thanks for sharing though.

 

[Hammsolo]

Well, that certainly didn't cheer me up on the subject. Thanks for sharing though.

Well, if anything we should get out and hunt more!!!

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

Good short article on new robotics and automation, but a little frightening. Watch the video and look at the comparison to last year, which everyone laughed at. The pace of improvement is incredible.

https://www.reuters.com/sports/humanoid-robots-race-past-humans-beijing-half-marathon-showing-rapid-advances-2026-04-19/

Wow, very fast advancement over last year. Meanwhile, the Polaks use a robot to chase boars through an urban setting. No comparison to last year’s boar chase.

 

[Candiru]

Why the AI Race Is Leaving Humans Behind with Tristan Harris

Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · March 26 · 1h 17m

podcasts.apple.com

One that I listened to yesterday. these guys are in a race to be the world's first trillionaire. They don't care what happens to us.

 

[Hammsolo]

Why the AI Race Is Leaving Humans Behind with Tristan Harris

Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · March 26 · 1h 17m

podcasts.apple.com

One that I listened to yesterday. these guys are in a race to be the world's first trillionaire. They don't care what happens to us.

Disgusting. Trillionaire is easy for someone like Bezos or Musk. It’s just a time issue. Let the math do the work…

 

[Nameless Range]

When I read about what they claim Mythos was able to do, it brings to thought a high probability of catastrophe. Your banking, your medical stuff, your PII and secrets- maybe increasingly impossible to protect.

Palantir recently put out a manifesto on their worldview. I suppose from a political point of view, I consider myself a "normie", and these technocrats increasingly look like religious dorks to me - promising utopia via a new socialism- except "dorks" probably isn't the right word, because they might be the most powerful people in the world.

They don't know what they are driving, how to steer it, or where they are headed, and we all seem to be trapped in the back seat.

𝑩𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑮𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔:
“Generative AI has the potential to change the world in ways that we can’t even imagine… and solve some of the world’s biggest problems, such as climate change, poverty, and disease.”
“Humans will no longer be needed.”

𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒏 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒌:
“In a benign scenario, probably none of us will have a job... There will be universal high income – and not universal basic income – universal high income. There'll be no shortage of goods or services.”
“With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon.”

𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒐𝒇𝒇:
“Artificial intelligence and generative AI will be the most important technology of any lifetime.”
“AI doesn’t have a soul. AI can be the ultimate liar. None of us are ready.”

𝑺𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒓 𝑷𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒊:
“AI is one of the most important things humanity is working on. It is more profound than electricity or fire.”
“AI is too important not to regulate. AI is like electricity—extremely powerful, but you can still burn down the house if you wire it badly.”


𝑺𝒂𝒎 𝑨𝒍𝒕𝒎𝒂𝒏:
“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.”

 

[SAJ-99]

Wow, very fast advancement over last year. Meanwhile, the Polaks use a robot to chase boars through an urban setting. No comparison to last year’s boar chase.

LOL. That seems pretty practical actually. The robot is probably more mobile than half the guys I see hunting. My first thought of an extension was robot sheep dog.

Three years of this thread we went from worrying about AI writing an email in public comments to autonomous robots running through streets chasing feral pigs. Hard not to be nervous about the future if you aren’t close to retirement.

 

[Redmt]

I remember when cruise control became a standard item in vehicles. I thought how ridiculous that people couldn't maintain speed without it. Now they can't find where they are going and couldn't drive if they did figure it out.

 

[Irrelevant]

𝑺𝒂𝒎 𝑨𝒍𝒕𝒎𝒂𝒏:
“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.”

Sam and I agree on this.

We actually have a ton of ability to change the direction, but it would require organizing around a common cause, and Americans, in bulk, are incapable of something so meaningful.

 

[kansasdad]

In recent AI related news, “United States v Heppner” ruling states that any use of AI is free of client-attorney or work product doctrine protections.