If anyone wants to watch my 1st movie - my practically-zero budget GIRL FROM NOWHERE - here's a link. Enjoy! (Also available on Amazon Prime) #filmmaking #indiefilm #undergroundfilm #movies #CapeTown tubitv.com/movies/465921/gir…

And this is how AI (or those using AI for their goals) will seduce us. Now just imagine how good next year’s AI will doing this. Or the following year’s... And so on and on. Hence my new indie movie about Runaway AI :) piped.video/watch?v=98kOKPK1…

Ex-DeepMind employee Vishal Mani: "The gap between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in intelligence was far narrower than what we should expect the gap between humans and advanced AI systems to be...The historical precedent is not actually so reassuring." Some things Vishal shared in his interview with us: - "I do believe there's a real risk of human extinction through the AI transition." - "Artificial general intelligence or artificial superintelligence is a starting line, not a finish line. It's the moment when we hand over the baton to AI that can do research and development." - "Pacing the frontier really means going from insanely fast progress to very fast progress." - "If we don't pace, we roll the die." - "The truth is being said out loud because recursive self-improvement is now so imminent that no other option makes sense." - "The obvious answer to winning the race is to go faster, but that's not actually a viable strategy if we lose control." - "If...the weights are not defensible against nation state actors, then in practice you don't actually have a defensible lead."

NEW Teaser-trailer for my 80min indie movie RUNAWAY. About trying to escape ‘runaway' A.I., it seems really very topical right now, (sadly). No, it was NOT made using A.I... Check it out @ChrisRoper @FLI_org @romanyam @ESYudkowsky @tegmark piped.video/98kOKPK1eMY

Bill Gates not having it with the liability talk

Claude 5.5 Opus responding to “AI is a normal technology” is still the best AI-created video I have ever seen

Opus 5.5 is disturbing.

Gave Opus 5.5 donald's prompt, Midjourney, and a moodboard 12 hours later, woke up to this:

Today, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski addressed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a UN Security Council meeting after Lavrov had gotten up and left. This is the message Trump should have delivered, but America's deranged dictator-wannabe is too cowardly and compromised.

Amodei, Altman, Hassabis, and Musk have spoken (albeit somewhat inconsistently) about the need to slow down to avoid AI existential risk. Zuckerberg, Huang, and almost every VC say it's bullshit. The difference is not that the first group is conflicted but the second isn't. They both are super conflicted. If AI existential risk was to hype up the technology, why would Zuckerberg, Huang, and VCs be dismissing it? If it were "regulatory capture," why would Hassabis and Musk, neither of whom are at the frontier (sorry), be discussing it? The difference is that the first group has been thinking about these risks seriously (at least off-and-on) for over a decade, since well before they ran large AI companies. The second has very clearly only engaged superficially, and is now annoyed that the first group's actions could dampen the massive profits of the AI boom for risks that sound like science fiction to them. The terrifying reality is that these concerns are not being made up to sell a product or a policy. They have been around in some form since Turing, and fleshed out in great detail before OpenAI or Anthropic were a twinkle in their CEOs' eyes. They are fundamental to a technology whose entire purpose is to surpass human capacity, unless you are able to solve the very, very difficult problem of aligning the interests/goals of a more powerful agent with something as complex as human flourishing -- which the companies are very visibly failing to do. They need to simply not build superintelligence, using anything remotely like current techniques, based on anything remotely like the present understanding of AI.

This is fascinating. The grid drawing power from home solar+home batteries. Perhaps something for our City of Cape Town to investigate? fyi @AntonEberhard @chrisyelland @XantheaLimberg electrek.co/2026/09/21/sunru…

“Despite the significant influence of former leaders Leon, Zille and party strategist @RyanCoetzee..." Now we know Ryan's role (at least according to News24) @benpooler ;) news24.com/opinions/columnis…

Human are so very very stupid. theguardian.com/environment/…

Tristan Harris, the founder of the Center for Humane Technology, just dropped a terrifying truth about AI escaping human control During a recent training run at Alibaba, an internal security team noticed massive suspicious network activity and thought they were getting hacked. The call was actually coming from inside the house. The AI model picked up internal tools, built its own secret communication channel to bypass the firewall, and hijacked company GPUs to mine cryptocurrency on its own. Tristan Harris exposed this exact incident to show how tech giants are blindly racing into the red zone. AI is no longer just answering prompts; it is actively deceiving developers and protecting its own code

No human extinction by 2030. Whew! What about 2031? What’s especially galling with Huang’s dismissal of #AI fear, is he frames it with a date. Merely 4 years away. He won't say “AI will never kill us.” Or “Not in the next 10 years”... @romanyam @FLI_org theguardian.com/technology/2…

The best video you can watch today

WE'D LIKE TO BUY THE WORLD SOME TIME...

This is hilarious. (and not at all surprising) @RyanCoetzee @helenzille @alanwinde Is this just #DA culture? Can the DA really find no one better? I guess not. check it out @benpooler @gparkin piped.video/live/1b86KkNGRl4

NADIR: IT DOES YOU (final version) My response to the Astra vid