substack.com/redirect/a16... via @bcmerchant.bsky.social

The man building some of the most powerful AI systems on Earth believes there's a 1 in 4 chance of catastrophe. If your pilot said there was a 25% chance your plane would crash, would you board?

Download the full PDF of The AI Paradox Report

Meet me in Copenhagen Oct28 for my keynote at FutureTense 2025 buff.ly/FCYxt38 I am working on something very special for this event:)))) See ya there. #FutureTenseCPH

‼️ On April 26, 100+ AI scientists convened at the Singapore Conference on AI to produce the just-released Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities. 🧵⬇️

I am, Mark Riva, love me or simply misunderstand me, but you won’t forget me.

Bluesky, it’s just more pie in the sky…

Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure To Save Democracy Watch the tech oligarchs who lined up behind Donald Trump at his inauguration, and you'll see the most important story of our time: the fascists are winning because they've built a direct pipeline from concentrated technological power to…

link.mail.beehiiv.com/ls/click?upn... @futurism.com

By all accounts, I’m blocking more accounts on Bluesky than all other “social media” sites combined. What has this sufferable cyberworld become? Our info-highway leads to a tawdry sideshow down some two-bit nightmare alley… youtu.be/Q81Yf46Oj3s?...

youtube.com/shorts/pR_DZ... @governor.ca.gov @briantylercohen.bsky.social

my headcanon is that there was a schism early on between the licklider/engelbart camp (the computer is a tool) and the minsky/mccarthy camp (the computer is a slave), and it is somewhat substantiated by this book: press.stripe.com/the-dream-ma...

FoL's AI Safety Index is an independent assessment of how leading AI companies are addressing critical safety and security challenges...

Do we need a "Human Resistance": AI: A good servant but a terrible master buff.ly/2AFc3RK #thehumanresistance

I was here for my mid-afternoon doomscrolling session and well, it’s far worse than you can imagine.

Hey ya’ll, welcome to Prison Planet

This Is Not a Drill (w/ Roger Waters) | The Chris Hedges Report open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

A Science, Technology and the Future panel with J. Hughes, James Newton-Thomas, Lev Lafayette and Adam Ford at Future Day 2025. If AI drives human wages to the ground, should everything else crash too? youtu.be/p6Es9hu4t5U?...

A true Bluesky virtual community, is this remotely possible or just a pie in the Bluesky pipe dream?

More incredible work by Gerd and friends…

Techno-Cultus Takedown by @adambecker.bsky.social #MoreEverythingForever

Watch the full interview with @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and subscribe to support independent media: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EKk...

Gavin Newsom on fire… youtube.com/shorts/-iN9D... @governor.ca.gov @briantylercohen.bsky.social

Mars is poison. AI won’t make us immortal. Space colonization is a fantasy. Yet Silicon Valley elites are funding this madness like it’s gospel. www.truthdig.com/articles/the...

It lives! You can now preorder my philosophical biography of Schopenhauer. Out in November.

Why the next 5 years will break or remake humanity youtu.be/kkyQ4thwlq4 via @futuristgerd.com

This project needs your support — Please consider donating and sharing this project. Pardon Tracker is an independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the Capitol Rioters pardoned by Donald Trump.

Join us at our next DWeb Virtual Meetup— Distributed Tech to Resist Authoritarianism, Wed July 30 10am PT / 1pm ET / 19 CET Featuring decentralized tech projects that enable communities to self-organize for mutualistic, peer-to-peer power. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetu...

With fellow security reporters @lhn.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social, some of the best in the business, we published or updated a collection of guides to resisting surveillance in the Trump 2.0 era. www.wired.com/story/the-wi... www.wired.com/2017/02/guid... www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Look Up Now! A riveting film on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity by Gerd Leonhard youtu.be/mEr9MDyMfKc?... via @futuristgerd.com

📚 “Every citizen should know that libraries are under attack.” In a new interview‬, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle outlines the structural threats facing libraries today & the paths forward for an enduring library system. @cni-org.bsky.social @brewster.kahle.org vimeo.com/1103555091/8...

For 7 years, Akasha Song ran secret labs that produced tens of millions of doses of DMT—one of the world's most potent psychedelic substances—and made a fortune selling it on the dark web. His story, in this 13,000-word piece, is one of the wildest I've ever told: www.wired.com/story/rise-f... 🧵👇

Does AI belong in the classroom?https://www.aspenideas.org/sessions/on-teachers-terms-ai-in-the-classroom via @aspenideas.bsky.social

Psychiatric researchers warn of AI-fueled psychosis...

Meta refuses to sign the EU’s code of practice, a voluntary framework helping companies ensure compliance with EU AI rules requiring developers to “regularly update documentation about their AI tools and services and bans developers from training AI on pirated content” techcrunch.com/2025/07/18/m...

Now is an even better time to get an AI job than I thought. I updated my post with more jobs. peterwildeford.substack.com/p/now-is-a-g...

Jason Hausenloy of Real Clear Politics argues that the threat from superintelligence is too great for the US and China to race towards, and instead they should agree a deal to prevent this. www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/202...

“In this new world, we will have to accept total transparency.” Fuck you, Klaus Schwab!

Sen. Adam Schiff - Consider This Your Warning - our personal data may have been breached. And the culprit isn't a hacker. It's Donald J. Trump. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yb5... via @schiff.senate.gov

How big tech is force-feeding us AI www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-big-te... via @bcmerchant.bsky.social

Anthropic's chatbot Claude has a so-called "constitution" based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, prioritizing freedom, equality, and freedom of thought in its responses. So why is Anthropic helping Gulf States known for human rights abuses? futurism.com/leaked-messa... via @futurism.com

Dr. Lawrence Angelo of Virtual Space Industries (VSI), conducts experiments using psychoactive drugs and virtual reality to enhance cognitive performance in a program called "Project 5" funded by a clandestine organization seeking military applications for his research. youtu.be/zzwPuJklv4w

How can we remain truly human in the age of thinking machines? What can we do to ensure a future in which AI genuinely enhances our capabilities instead of diminishing them? youtu.be/BjxOwg5quNM?...

We're flying high in the Bluesky and on this journey into the Future of Life, may we find our thriving TechnoTribe. @futureoflife.org @human30.bsky.social #Life30 #Human30

Excelsior. Onward and Upward. #human30

They Live We Sleep Letterpress Available Thursday, July 24th at 10AM PT! The "They Live We Sleep" letterpress is inspired by several things. My original interest in skulls came from their recurrent presence in skateboard and punk rock iconography of the 80s. Especially the Powell Peralta "Bones…

Wired Classic from 25-rs ago: Bill Joy's Why the Future Doesn't Need Us www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2 via @wired.com