The Artificial Intelligence industry should create a global community of hackers and “threat modelers” dedicated to stress-testing the harm potential of new AI products in order to earn the trust of governments and the public before it’s too late.
This is one of the recommendations made by an international team of risk and machine-learning experts, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge’s Center for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), who have authored a new “call to action” published today in the journal Science.
They say that companies building intelligent technologies should harness techniques such as “red team” hacking, audit trails and “bias bounties”—paying out rewards for revealing ethical flaws—to prove their integrity before releasing AI for use on the wider public.
According to a news release by The University of Manchester, a groundbreaking study published in the journal Scientific Reports provides new evidence that helps us to understand the asteroid impact that brought an end to 75 percent of life on Earth, including non-avian dinosaurs, at the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition 66 million years ago.
This project has been a huge undertaking but well worth it. For so many years we’ve collected and processed the data, and now we have compelling evidence that changes how we think of the KPg event, but can simultaneously help us better prepare for future ecological and environmental hazards.
Time of year plays an important role in many biological functions— reproduction, available food sources, feeding strategies, host-parasite interactions, seasonal dormancy, breeding patterns, to name a few. It is hence no surprise that the time of year for a global-scale disaster can play a big role in how harshly it impacts life. The seasonal timing of the Chicxulub impact has therefore been a critical question for the story of the end-Cretaceous extinction. Until now the answer to that question has remained unclear.
A huge asteroid the size of the Eiffel Tower is approaching our planet. The asteroid is named 4,660 Nereus and has been flagged ‘Potentially Hazardous’ by NASA. Nereus is 330 meters long and will break into Earth’s orbit on Saturday, December 11. The colossal asteroid is traveling at 23,700 km/h towards our planet.
On December 11, the asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth. It will come within 3.86 million km, about ten times the distance between Earth and the Moon. Although it sounds like an enormous gap on cosmic scales, it is actually a stone’s throw away.
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This is the same type of double double DOUBLE down on hyperbolic and aggressive anti expert BS that has pushed a not insignificant portion of the population of the US to throw a violent tantrum against covid19 vaccines and wearing a piece of cloth on their face to keep from DYING. Similarly, ultra environmentalists on the far left have ceased to try to protect the environment FOR future generations. Now they want to protect the environment FROM future generations. They’ve become ANTIHUMAN, often to a disturbingly horrific — if hilariously stupid — extent. LITERALLY. Unless you think we shouldn’t build anything on the sterile, irradiated and dead surface of the moon by polluting it — or any other moon, asteroid, or planet by stepping on it’s surface with our filthy monkey feet. Or throwing trash into the SUN because we’d be…
👉😏🙄POLLUTING IT!🙄🤪👈
There is a reason why experts are experts. It isn’t because they want to eat children on pizza with Hillary Clinton with space lizards, nor because they want an irradiated earth beneath their feet. Nuclear power is clean, cheap, and safe. Until fusion gets here, and with electric vehicles quickly becoming the dominant mode of transportation every minute that ticks by, nuclear power isn’t just preferential, its absolutely REQUIRED if we want to get a handle on global warming while simultaneously maintain or improve the standard and quality of life we are accustomed to, and that developing nations will, already are, and SHOULD be seeking for themselves too. Building nuclear power into the foundation of a developing nations energy generation and distribution infrastructure from day one will PREVENT all the massive amount of damage that will inevitably exponentially accelerate global warming and pollution, lowering the quality of life in that nation which will in turn prompt even GREATER use of fossil fuels to mitigate temporarily. Heat caused by fossil fuel powered global warming is dealt with symptomatically by turning up the air-conditioning. Dangerous spikes in particulates and pollution in the air is symptomatically dealt with by using high energy consuming industrial or home air filtration systems, etc. If all that energy comes from coal or other fossil fuels, that lovely tesla you’ve got plugged in to charge in your garage overnight is doing just as much damage to the environment as that douchebag down the street with his fire eagle painted hummer filling up on gasoline before he goes to a kid Rock show that he’s actually LOOKING FORWARD TO!
《☆This isn’t breaking news exactly, but still relevant. I apologize in advance for its, uh, occasional rantishness and length! 😉☆》
Helen Caldicott is the world’s most prominent anti-nuclear activist. Helen has been featured on CNN, 60 Minutes, CBC and Democracy Now speaking about the dangers of nuclear power and radiation.
In the 80s, Dr. Helen Caldicott campaigned against nuclear weapons testing in the pacific (still responsible today for the majority of tritium we’re exposed to), and against the notion of a winnable nuclear war. She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts.
However, she has always made inaccurate statements regarding civilian nuclear power.
Since the Fukushima-Diachii radiation release caused zero fatalities, and is also projected (by the United Nations) to cause a total of zero fatalities… http://www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/.… tone has dramatically changed when speaking to supporters. This has not been acknowledged by prime-time media, as they continue to use her as a source. Any person or media outlet should check Caldicott’s history of statements (on ANY subject) against a domain expert before using her as a source. MY ERROR: At 36:30 “1000 Mt GHG” means 1,000 Megatonnes (million metric tons) of Greenhouse Gasses, and NOT merely metric tonnes. Theme Music by: http://KiloWattsMusic.com “Electric Car” by “They Might Be Giants”: http://youtu.be/jAv6M1Bai0c http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beard Seinfeld 102nd episode http://youtu.be/IrEQiOclEUI Robert Stone @ FCCJ http://youtu.be/GZ0X6zOiuUA Caldicott “Loving This Planet” @ New School http://youtu.be/u-Of-3VontE Caldicott “Shut Down All Nuclear Power Plants!” @ RT Google Hangout http://youtu.be/UHMor_mprp4 Caldicott @ N.H. Peace Action http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/30… Caldicott vs Monbiot @ Democracy Now! http://youtu.be/NOmAsdYG3F8 Ben Heard @ IQ2 http://youtu.be/ayIyiVua8cY Robert Hargraves “Energy Cheaper Than Coal” @ ThEC12 http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates Bill Gates “Innovate to Zero!” @ TED http://fora.tv/2011/05/03/Bill_Gates_… Bill Gates “Energy Innovation” @ WIRED http://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show… Dr. Arjun Makhijani “Carbon Free Nuclear Free” @ AtomicInsights http://youtu.be/pLkBdD-sM8E Pandora’s Promise @ Google http://youtu.be/iLX8jCKL9I4 Jiang Mianheng @ ThEC12 http://youtu.be/N2vzotsvvkw Kirk Sorensen @ TEDxYYC http://youtu.be/whkvDTdI9yo Q&A with Robert Stone & Michael Shellenberger @ Texas A&M University http://youtu.be/EArymchGU18 Busy Sidewalk http://youtu.be/tfOpPnfW0lo Pumps “Boom with No Boundaries” http://youtu.be/IYwXJYpTzlk Wave “Ocean Film Tour” http://youtu.be/jdl1OOK7kMQ Sombrio Bridge Time Lapse http://youtu.be/px5Pt-w7Vls Aluminum MacBook Unboxing http://youtu.be/BugnfrZlZC4 Pumpjack Oil Pumps Deliver Texas Crude Oil http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/ Who Killed Electric Car? GM EV1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_%26… Penn & Teller “Environmental Hysteria” “Dr. Helen Caldicott” is Thorium Documentary Part 11, build of iteration v504f.
…her tone has dramatically changed when speaking to supporters. This has not been acknowledged by prime-time media, as they continue to use her as a source. Any person or media outlet should check Caldicott’s history of statements (on ANY subject) against a domain expert before using her as a source.
MY ERROR: At 36:30 “1000 Mt GHG” means 1,000 Megatonnes (million metric tons) of Greenhouse Gasses, and NOT merely metric tonnes.
Earth dodged a gigantic space bullet Friday when the 143,000-ton asteroid known as 2012 DA14 came within 17,200 miles of the Indian Ocean. Scientists and engineers are looking for ways to head off such close calls by targeting potentially dangerous asteroids well before they’re in a position to do us any harm.
A group called the B612 Foundation (a reference to the home asteroid of the Little Prince in the classic French novella)recently announced a mission to build a spacecraft that would track dangerous midsize asteroids, and a fledgling company called Deep Space Industries has floated a plan to build swarms of robots that could mine — and even destroy — space rocks.
An asteroid the size of the Eiffel Tower is heading towards Earth this month and it’s considered an especially unique piece of rock by scientists.
The asteroid 4,660 Nereus is classified as a “potentially hazardous” piece of rock because of its proximity to Earth. On Dec. 11, NASA expects it to be at its closest point to Earth over a 20-year period. The asteroid was discovered back in 1982.
NASA on Tuesday night successfully launched its experimental asteroid deflecting spacecraft which is set to smash into an asteroid at 15,000 miles per hour and serve as a test run for countering any future doomsday scenario where a large space rock could end up on a collision course with the Earth.
KEY FACTS The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), developed by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) launched from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base at around 10.20 a.m. local time Tuesday, aboard SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket.
Sometime in 2022, the DART spacecraft is expected to smash into the asteroid Dimorphos which orbits a larger satellite called Didymos—neither of which pose a threat to Earth at the moment—with the hope of deflecting its course.
New ways to measure the top supercomputers’ smarts in the AI field include searching for dark energy, predicting hurricanes, and finding new materials for energy storage.
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Experts are sounding the alarm about the threat of asteroids to life on Earth — and warning that the United States does not have a clear plan to prevent catastrophe.
Though NASA says the odds are literally one in a millennium, no US agency is explicitly responsible if space rocks are headed our way.
“No one is tasked with mitigation,” former Air Force space strategist Peter Garretson, an expert in planetary defense told Politico. “Congress did put in law that the White House identify who should be responsible, but fully four subsequent administrations so far have blown off their request.”
