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AI is going to destroy a lot of software companies in a way I haven't seen talked about yet: it will give CEOs exactly what they ask for.

Before you jump in with "AI produces garbage and isn't reliable by design," let me say I agree with you 100%, but for the sake of argument, assume for a moment it could produce a high quality product.

Once a company gets large enough, very often the CEO gets completely removed from how their company actually works. I know I've worked at several companies where the job of my boss was to shield me from corporate nonsense so I could make an actually good product. If I and/or my boss were replaced with AI that actually followed the corporate nonsense, the company would go belly-up quite quickly.

I think many CEOs are looking to replace huge fleets of workers with AI they can directly prompt. Even if it worked flawlessly, since they don't know how their products actually bring value to their customers, they will speed-run torpedoing their company's place in the market by their own ignorance, ego, and overconfidence.

Well the snake oil salesmen have taken over the health department. It was only a matter of time.

Republicans drew the state’s new map to give the GOP five additional seats, and Missouri and North Carolina followed with new maps adding an additional Republican seat each. To counter those moves, California voters approved a ballot initiative to give Democrats an additional five seats there.

The redrawn maps are facing court challenges in California, Missouri and North Carolina.

How much you want to bet SCOTUS blocks California's redistricting but greenlights Missouri and North Carolina maps, each through tortured logic?

TL;DR: While governments are putting out assurances AI won't make the final decision to launch nuclear weapons, they are tight-lipped about whether they are putting AI in the information gathering and processing components that advise world leaders making the decision to launch nuclear weapons. In risk assessment, there's little difference between wrong AI making the launch decision and a human informed by wrong AI making the launch decision.

One catch is that they are only forced to release "unclassified" files. Guess who decides what files are classified?

And they're being redeployed to Charlotte, NC, and New Orleans, LA. They're continuing the tactic of blitzing whatever they want to do somewhere, and when the courts start to catch up, they pull out and start to do something else somewhere else. They can do whatever they want, legality be damned, if they accomplish their goals before the courts wake up. This is guerrilla warfare applied to the legal checks and balances between the branches of government.

The problem is that some small but non-zero fraction of these bugs may be exploitable security flaws with the software, and these bug reports are on the open internet. So if they just ignore them all, they risk overlooking a genuine vulnerability that a bad actor can then more easily find and use. Then the FOSS project gets the blame, because the bug report was there, they should have fixed it!

If the court rules against the president, it will nullify a major tool in Mr. Trump’s trade agenda. He has used the law under question, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, to impose tariffs on an estimated 29 percent of all U.S. imports, the Times analysis found. So far this year, these emergency tariffs have hit more than $300 billion in imported goods.

Not that I expect it to happen, but if they rule against him, what happens to the money the government has collected from illegal tariffs so far? Do they just keep it? Do they have to go through the books and return it to the importers? The costs were often absorbed by vendors at the start, but there's no question a large fraction have already been passed on to consumers.

It's much worse than that. He's a proponent of the "prosperity gospel," which says God directly rewards a person's faithfulness and adherence to scripture with worldly success. So if you need help, that means you have not been a good enough Christian, so it would be against God's will for his church to help.

I was really hoping that the AI they would be talking about would be the specialized algorithms known to have real, beneficial effects, like the one that basically solved protein folding. But no, they are talking about LLMs making policy, which sounds genuinely horrifying at this stage.

"Just as Al Qaeda wages war on our homeland, these cartels are waging war on our border and our people."

What? When has Al Qaeda attacked the US homeland since 9/11?