Please enjoy some “epic” human commentary keeping you ahead of the herd on new, interesting stuff from the world of science & tech, along with a (totally non-biased) AI assessment of its potential to kill and/or enslave us.

Good times ahead, virtually guaranteed*

🟢 = Definitely safe. Quite boring actually.
🟡 = Mildly concerning. Like gnats at the lake.
🟠 = Troubling. Is anyone else seeing the risk here?
🔴 = Bad. Disruptive but not deadly. Expect some fallout.
🟣 = Very bad. Doomsday preppers are feelin the thrill of validation.
⚫ = Game over. Killer robots. Mind flayers. Human expiration date nears.

Only a matter of time before these become commonplace and flying at higher altitude becomes a status symbol. Think about what happens if someone flushes the toilet onboard and there’s a leak. Just sayin’ - shit always flows downhill, or in this case, down the gravity well.

Just a nice young guy from down the road quietly building up a robot army in the name of peace and democracy. If history has taught us anything it is that people who acquire advanced forms of “threat deterrence” definitely don’t go seeking targets to deploy them against (sarcasm alert).

Seriously, how is this not bigger news? Someone send in Mr. Beast or some other YouTuber to get this the attention it deserves.

Resisting the urge to make lewd commentary on the “gentlemanliness” of anyone demanding backdoor access, this seems to betray the purpose of private encryption. It’s one thing to allow law enforcement to request data (along with plausible evidence) in the interest of public security, but an access point that’s open at any time for government really isn’t a “technical door”, it’s a wide open bazaar.

Well at least they’re cute and cuddly as puppies so we get a few fun years before they eat our faces as a snack.

Has everyone forgotten the fact that they are apex predators that hunt huge prey like horses and bison?? No worries though, we’ll just have the interns take them for their daily walks

In an ironic twist typically reserved for substandard melodramas, it turns out that the quest for more powerful AI models requires…. more power!

Anyone concerned with the long-term environmental impacts of rerouting basic resources to the next generation of shadowy data centers built and managed by the tech oligarchy can rest assured though that their AI’s are working on it and will soon have a solution. All they need is just a bit more power.

Every parent knows that 90% of kids (or in this case governments) won’t clean up their own mess without some threat of punishment looming over their heads. If only there was a way for the public to withhold dessert or threaten an early bedtime, things would be so much cleaner up there for everyone stuck down here.