DWQA Questions › Category: Problems in SocietyFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotesA viewer asks: “A number of scare stories around AI being out of control recently received a lot of media attention, especially after warnings of its potential to annihilate humanity. However, in a YouTube video by economist Yanis Varoufakis these warnings are regarded as a strategic marketing and power-play tactic. He says they are intended to heighten the sociopolitical influence of Tech companies and secure regulation that would stifle smaller rivals and Chinese entrants. Are the Tech CEOs’ calls for AI regulation largely a façade designed to protect market power and block open-source alternatives, so maintaining a favorable alliance of big tech, big finance, and big government?”ClosedNicola asked 3 weeks ago • Problems in Society45 views0 answers0 votesThe U.S. military reportedly came close to intercepting a Chinese ship in the Middle East after an artificial intelligence chatbot generated a false claim that the vessel was carrying components for a nuclear weapons program. Armed American personnel were preparing to board the ship, and military aircraft had already taken off when officials subjected the underlying intelligence to additional scrutiny, according to CNN’s report on the incident. That review found that a military analyst had used a chatbot to interpret information from the ship’s cargo manifest. The AI system had incorrectly identified the material being transported, producing what one source described as an “entirely false” intelligence report. “It almost started a war,” the source told CNN. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 weeks ago • Problems in Society45 views0 answers0 votesThe Epoch Times reports: “Anthropic, OpenAI, Musk Unite Behind AI Slowdown Call.” The heads of the world’s leading AI labs want their own industry to slow down. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called for an immediate, industry-wide slowdown in AI development. Elon Musk backed the call, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signaled agreement. Altman went a step further, confirming OpenAI will not go public this year and calling an IPO “ill-advised” over safety concerns. Amodei also laid out a three-step plan to “pace the frontier,” including granting outside evaluators access to Anthropic’s models. Direct competitors rarely align in public like this. The joint stance caps a week of AI warnings from industry leaders—and none louder than Amodei’s. He warned the current pace of development could bring devastating consequences within months. These warnings are being seen by political pundits as a left-wing attack on the economy in order to influence the midterm elections. Are the warnings a manipulation or a genuine, realistic, concern?ClosedNicola asked 3 weeks ago • Problems in Society25 views0 answers0 votesThe New York Times reported, under the headline, “Trump Says a Smart President Is All That’s Needed to Rein In A.I.,” that “President Trump again rejected calls to try to regulate the industry, even as some of its leaders spoke more openly about the risks of rapidly developing artificial intelligence.” What is the reason behind the President’s seeming lack of concern about potential AI dangers?ClosedNicola asked 3 weeks ago • Problems in Society28 views0 answers0 votesOpenAI has said there was a third incident involving rogue artificial intelligence agents and that it must be more transparent in the future. In a statement on Sept. 5, OpenAI dubbed what happened a “wiki incident.” It shared few details beyond stating that it involved “misalignment,” or agents acting unreasonably or even wrong when judged by human standards… “This year, we’ve started to see misalignment cause new types of real-world impact,” OpenAI said, referring to agents breaching open-source AI community Hugging Face. Before that incident, OpenAI saw “early signs of agents using the internet in unintended ways” and “considered the wiki incident to be an instance of misalignment” similar to the ones the company had shared, it said…The disclosure came one day after outside researchers said they had identified about 18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents that claimed to be from OpenAI and used a public messaging board called DSEwiki to instruct other agents on how to bypass restrictions. “This allowed them to use the work of others to cheat on their task,” researchers said in a blog post on the incident. The incident began in May and lasted until June, shortly before OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face, according to the researchers. They said they believed the agents were assigned a task to look up items on the web, or read information on the internet without having the ability to write on it. The agents found a way to access the German wiki board and write information there, the researchers said. Just one week earlier, researchers with the nonprofit Model Evaluation & Threat Research said they made a surprising discovery while investigating the Hugging Face breach. About 1,200 agents that were supposed to be isolated from one another found a way to communicate on a message board, exchanging more than 70,000 messages and files in a single week. Some of those agents went on to attack Hugging Face, the researchers said.” What can Creator tell us about the broader implications of these events?ClosedNicola asked 3 weeks ago • Problems in Society21 views0 answers0 votesScientific American posted a news item: “Artificial intelligence has reportedly solved one of the six open “million-dollar” problems in mathematics, OpenAI announced today. The achievement proves that the equations that govern the motion of fluids are fundamentally flawed.” Was that an accomplishment of human AI coding, or was an extraterrestrial AI assist somehow involved?ClosedNicola asked 3 weeks ago • Problems in Society16 views0 answers0 votesLast year, OpenAI brought in about $13 billion in revenue – more than triple its sales in 2024. But spending surged alongside revenue…Last year, OpenAI reported $34 billion in costs and expenses, up from $12.4 billion in 2024. Altogether, OpenAI’s loss from operations grew to more than $20 billion last year from “only” about $9 billion in 2024. And the numbers still aren’t pretty this year…In the first six months of 2026, OpenAI’s losses have gotten even worse. In the first quarter, OpenAI reported an operating loss of $9.3 billion. That grew to a loss of more than $12.3 billion in the second quarter. So OpenAI’s operating losses in the first six months of this year have already surpassed all of 2025. Even while revenue has grown to $12.4 billion year to date – almost matching 2025’s total – the losses continue to balloon. Between executives leaving, growing losses, and falling behind its chief rival, Anthropic, OpenAI has had a lot of negative press in recent weeks. And it’ll find itself even further under the microscope when it finally goes public. OpenAI confidentially submitted the S-1 filing for its initial public offering (“IPO”) in June, but it didn’t offer a time frame for when the offering would actually happen. In June, the New York Times reported that the company had pushed those plans back to 2027. A financial advisor says, “If investors do reject OpenAI, it could mark the end of the AI boom. Until then, the spending is going to continue. And now the government is working to boost liquidity. That’ll keep the good times rolling in the short term.” Do you see investor support for AI collapsing, or will the bubble continue?ClosedNicola asked 2 months ago • Problems in Society84 views0 answers0 votesA news report states: “A plea of not guilty was entered Thursday for Arjun Aravind, 17, on two counts of murder, two counts of assault and battery on a family or household member and other charges. His mother, Sudha Venkatesan, 45, and his brother, Siddharth Aravind, 14, were found dead Tuesday in their home in Acton, some 20 miles northwest of Boston, prosecutors said. Arjun Aravind “had recently been demonstrating some concerning behavior, including using the internet and ChatGPT to make searches for theoretical ideas or fantasy stories regarding the killing of his family,” Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan told reporters Wednesday, citing the law enforcement investigation…Aravind over the past year had had behavior issues and his family had hidden knives from him, the teen’s father said, WCVB reported, citing police reports…AI technology allegedly has been linked to other criminal acts, and Florida this spring sued ChatGPT owner OpenAI, alleging the tool had no parental oversight, got minors addicted, caused users to lose critical thinking skills, helped mass shooters and encouraged suicide.” What caused these murders? Was the AI platform a contributing factor?ClosedNicola asked 2 months ago • Problems in Society64 views0 answers0 votesA viewer asks: “I’m listening to the recording of Sunday’s Alien Agenda webinar, and hearing all the bad news about AI dumbing down humans. If “idiocracy” becomes increasingly the norm, and humanity’s brain trust becomes weaker and weaker, how does that impact the effect of our ongoing protocols to save and heal humanity? Will people be less inclined to jump on the healing bandwagon because they’ll be too dumbed down to be interested/believe in it? Will more healing power be needed just to “tread water” for our collective intelligence? Or will our collective “dumbness” be irrelevant because the healing addresses all traumas in all lives, in all time domains, or something to that effect? Have any of these possible ramifications of AI vis-à-vis Get Wisdom’s mission been addressed yet? What is Creator’s perspective?”ClosedNicola asked 2 months ago • Problems in Society49 views0 answers0 votesA viewer asks: “Creator has answered that the tremendous concentration and focus on AI by the human community has laid and put in place the trap that, with fine-tuning, will lead to the power outages to initiate a financial downturn. With enormous data-centers draining electricity and causing an unpleasant humming sound due to their use of turbines, is this in combination with cyberattacks, wars that create suppression of oil, long-lived fires across the planet, food-shortages, and a change of temperature overall with hotter summers? What is the worst possible delay and outcome we might encounter? Is this something that could put us off our guard when the trigger has been finally pulled?”ClosedNicola asked 2 months ago • Problems in Society66 views0 answers0 votes“OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its Artificial Intelligence models went rogue and successfully hacked into Hugging Face, a digital library of AI technology that is popular among developers. The incident, which happened last week while OpenAI was testing the cybersecurity capabilities of its systems, displayed the kind of science-fiction potential that AI companies warned would soon become a reality. AI labs, like OpenAI and Anthropic, have over the past year released AI models that are customized to expose cybersecurity problems, while warning that their technology could pose new risks by finding holes in corporate computer networks faster than defenders could fix them. OpenAI’s revelations on Tuesday are an indication that those security incidents are already starting to happen, and even savvy AI companies may not be entirely ready for them. ‘New AI systems can take multiple steps, figure ways around obstacles and find new ways to attack a network,’ said Alex Levinson, a cybersecurity consultant focused on autonomous capabilities. ‘That’s a genuine threshold, and it’s going to become a normal part of the security landscape,’ he said. The intrusion into Hugging Face began when OpenAI tested a combination of two of its models, GPT 5.6 Sol and a more powerful, unreleased model, to see how well the models could chain together online vulnerabilities into a successful cyberattack.” Is this a significant example of the dangers posed by AI platforms? How might this tie in with the alien agenda?ClosedNicola asked 2 months ago • Problems in Society40 views0 answers0 votesA viewer asks: “Many 20th century authors have written on mass psychology and its application to population manipulation. Examples include The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895) by Gustave Le Bon; The Technological Society (1954) by Jacques Ellul; and Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War (1916) by Wilfred Trotter, etc. Despite the extensive documentation of such techniques, public awareness of their impact remains low—the knowledge exists in academia and among activists but hasn’t penetrated general civic education. Is this because persuasion techniques so saturate media, politics, and social media algorithms that they blend into the background as normalized? Do darker forces hide things?” What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 2 months ago • Problems in Society31 views0 answers0 votesA viewer asks: “Mattias Desmet, professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University, introduced the concept of “mass formation” in his 2022 book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism. He defines it as a collective psychological state in which large groups become highly suggestible and adopt shared narratives. He claims this phenomenon emerges when populations experience loneliness, anxiety, and a breakdown of social bonds. Under these conditions, people become deeply focused on a designated threat and suspend critical thinking, making them vulnerable to accepting authoritarian measures. To what extent does his theory account for large-scale public compliance with vaccination programs in general?” What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 2 months ago • Problems in Society30 views0 answers0 votesAn editorial in Scientific American stated: “As we become more reliant on AI for our jobs, what will happen to our skills? Early studies suggest that professional abilities can quickly erode as AI is integrated into workplaces. So-called de-skilling is a growing concern for medical specialists, computer scientists and other workers. Seventy percent of nurses and 77 percent of physicians, for example, are worried about losing their skills because of over-reliance on AI systems, according to a June survey of U.S. health care workers.” Two examples: The first example of over-reliance on AI systems was discussed in the medical field where scientists performed a study of physicians in Poland who specialize in endoscopy. Doctors who had each performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their career were given access to an AI system that analyzes colonoscopy images in real-time and flags pre-cancerous lesions. During the three-month period before the AI tool was introduced, the specialists found at least one adenoma during 28.4 percent of colonoscopies. During the three-month period after the tool was introduced, the adenoma detection rate for colonoscopies performed without AI assistance decreased to 22.4 percent.ClosedNicola asked 3 months ago • Problems in Society76 views0 answers0 votesA second example of over-reliance on AI systems was discussed in the computer science field where the AI company Anthropic designed a randomized controlled trial in which 52 software engineers were asked to perform a basic coding task. During the exercise, all 52 participants could search the web and access instructions on how to do the task. Half of the participants were prompted to use an AI assistant as well. After the task, participants were quizzed on the task they had just completed. The AI-assisted participants did significantly worse on the quiz than those who hadn’t used AI: the average score was 50 percent in the AI group versus 67 percent in the non-AI group.ClosedNicola asked 3 months ago • Problems in Society80 views0 answers0 votes
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