never seen anything like this: WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO SEE HUMANITY PERISH The AI stories abound. Almost overnight it seemed, the talk was that AI was in crisis, and that any further advance of the bots meant the end of humanity. The debates have just begun. As first reported by Matteo Wong of The Atlantic, "Bots are starting to conspire with one another." The founder of OpenAI, the head of Anthropic, and every AI developer agree that the world faces a challenge unlike anything we have ever witnessed. And researchers believe the speed of their development is outstripping the ability to monitor them. These are the facts coming from every quarter of the universe. One of the scariest questions is why anyone of the right mind would want to see humanity perish. Philip Montgomery, of The New York Times, asked Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, authors of their new book, "End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World," what they thought. They argued, "that a powerful coalition of religious fundamentalists, ethnonationalists and tech oligarchs (Elon Musk chief among them) is actively -- and successfully -- hastening the destruction of the world as we know it ... Because they believe that they're primed to thrive on the other side of catastrophe, everyone else be damned." It may surprise most of us, but the idea of a "post-humanity," post humanity or as it is also referred to "posthumanism" is that we may eventually be transformed so profoundly--by artificial intelligence, biotechnology, genetic engineering, brain-computer interfaces, or other technologies--that the resulting beings would no longer be conventionally "human." Ray Kurzweil, long a futurist and "post humanist," has predicted the concept of technological to describe a point at which technological change--particularly machine intelligence--becomes extraordinarily rapid and transformative. Household figures like Elon Musk, the head of OpenAI, Sam Altman, even the founder of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, have expressed ideas in which AI could compress decades of biological and medical progress into a much shorter period. While not explicitly posthumanism, radical thinking of a future like posthumanism or transhumanist ideas are obvious. Many high-tech billionaires are already building underground estates or bunkers as insurance against an apocalypse. One of the most lavish, according to Wired Magazine, is the Zukerberg compound on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, which includes a 5,000-square-foot underground bunker and multiple luxurious amenities. estimated to be worth over $300 million. Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO warns that the makers of artificial intelligence "owe it to humanity to try" to slow down. His recent essay, 20,000 words long titled "The Adolescence of Technology, was posted in Fortune Magazine, ". In it he proposed: 1. Each frontier AI company commits to giving ongoing, employee-like access to a team of embedded third-party evaluators (such as METR), whose role is to verify adherence to safety practices and commitments, report incidents, and help assess the alignment of not just completed AI models but training pipelines and processes. 2. Frontier AI companies within democratic countries coordinate to establish common safety standards as well as limits on the rate of unchecked AI progress. Some forms of coordination that would be impactful for pacing are legally challenging and will require government support. 3. The US and other democratic governments attempt to coordinate with authoritarian governments, to the extent this is possible, while taking seriously the challenges of verifying compliance. The stakes are too high, he argued, for pacing to be an empty exercise -- we need to use the time it gives us wisely. A little hope to hang onto. John Eger is a professor emeritus at San Diego State University's School of Journalism and Media Studies. He served as telecommunications advisor to the President and as legal counsel to the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission. read more

Show me the MONEY! Financial Times Group Ltd., the industry leader for the finance industry where I have been following the ongoings since my undergraduate days to date. Print and online version as a unit publisher of Pearson. Aside from financial news there is also a small relevant portion of global non-financial news available. It is pertinent that one must be aware and sincere to care of today's ailing economy that is disappointingly in a "permanent state of decline," whereas New York Times, Daily News, or other renowned news source cannot produce in full disclosure. read more

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The Financial Times is one of the worlds biggest newspapers, with the newspaper being printed and sold all over the world including locations in London, Liverpool, Shanghai and New York, with a distribution of 230,000 in the UK alone. This review is for the UK paper, which are based in London, as I'm unsure whether the international versions would be the same, for example with the upcoming elections, the FT in the United Kingdom will probably be focusing on the EU with the upcoming referendum in June, but the FT might focus on the Republican and Democratic primaries with the upcoming Presidential elections in November. I don't regularly buy the Financial Times (Ft) simply because of its' price, right now the weekday version is £2.70, which has increased twice since January 2012, where it was £2.20 at the start of the year. The Financial Times is different to other papers, because it is a broadsheet by nature but mainly focuses on business, therefore is known as "An international business newspaper", it is also different because it is printed on Salmon pink paper, originally to distinguish between the Financial News, a different paper but now they have kept it, as it has history and it is also cheaper printing on this paper, which means the price shouldn't be what it is, probably being the most expensive newspaper in the UK. The content in The FT is quite good, although due to it being really thin, it doesn't really consist of much, and you can't get your full news digest from just this one paper, it mainly acts as a business section you'd get in The Times on Sunday, but slightly more informative and avaliable everyday, but still despite some good content, it doesn't warrant its' price, when compared to other newspapers, for example The Times is now £1.40 and The Guardian is now £2, after both of them had price rises this week. The Financial Times website is the same worldwide, with Ft.com speaking about a worldwide range of news, with separate parts for the UK and the US, although most of this is subscription based, and you'll probably need a subscription, which is quite expensive when also comparing to other newspapers to view the big bulk of content. Overall, The Financial Times is a good business newspaper but it isn't much more than that, and doesn't seem to speak enough about real news, as a standard newspaper would, and therefore it just feels like a Sunday paper supplement, especially when considering how little there is too it, but still it is more informative than your average business section. This is a paper, I'd probably pay no more than £1.80 - £2.20 for being generous, therefore they really need to work on the pricing and content, I used to really like the Financial Times but find since its' takeover by Nikkel, with the acquisition from Pearson being completed in November 2015, the quality has gone dramatically down-hill. UPDATE: After looking at the weekend version, FT Weekend I was very impressed, it was slightly more than the weekday version at £3.50 but is the only paper published for those two days, but that paper was a lot thicker and better than the other paper, it had a good amount of sections in, including a rather interesting FT Magazine, with an interesting section, a good 4-6 pages on the Upcoming Mayoral elections in London , focusing on Zac Goldsmith and Sadiq Khan, which not many other sources have done in such detail yet, it did seem to be a much better paper, overall the Financial Times is a good paper and I feel it is worthy of an upgrade to 3, with the main thing letting it down on gaining any-higher being the price, being one of the most expensive papers in the UK that I'm aware of, that is distributed on this scale. read more

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I was on hold for two consecutive calls today to try to cancel my digital description. The first person said I had called the incorrect number - but no menu option exists for cancelling digital (as opposed to paper subscription) and the person said she would transfer me to the right number - I listened for over 14 minutes to music then hung up. The message I received essentially was I was wrong and they don't care. I called back, explained the long previous hold and was told I would be immediately directed to a person, and then listened or was subjected to another 15 minutes of their music. This is a company who has no interest in customer service. I have now gone to Amex to lodge a dispute for the FT's failure to respond to my effort to cancel my subscription. This rises in my mind to a failure to honor an implicit contract to allow a customer to cancel a subscription at any time. Terrible, terrible business processes and/or ethical behavior. read more

The FT.com just automatically renewed my subscription without telling me, and when I saw the charge, I emailed them and asked them to cancel, they said they would---in a year. Their claim is that I asked for automatic renewal (I have no recollection of that, unless it was in the small print) and that I had to cancel my subscription **before** it ran out, or be stuck with a full year. We're talking more than $300 here!!!! They posted the small print about that in the email. I'm furious, and will pursue this, but certainly never enroll in the FT again. read more

The best newspaper full stop. Great articles, editorials, discussions. High quality content.