The Threat of Artificial Intelligence

Digital Bible or surveillance tool? How Palantir and Pray.com are bringing faith into the AI age A new “AI Bible” channel is spreading like wildfire online: hundreds of thousands of subscribers on YouTube, millions of followers on Instagram – and videos that stage biblical revelations like Hollywood blockbusters. Monsters, angels,…
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Critics are sounding the alarm about AI-powered toys, saying they may harm children’s emotional development, pose privacy risks and result in a generation of youngsters forming their first “real” relationships with machines. The toys also could “exponentially increase” a child’s exposure to wireless radiation dangers. Critics are…
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A shocking report reveals that one in five Spanish teenagers has fallen victim to artificial intelligence (AI)-generated nude deepfakes – fake, digitally manipulated images designed to appear real – shared online without their consent. The study conducted by the non-governmental organization Save the Children exposes a disturbing…
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A groundbreaking MIT study has exposed a disturbing trend: reliance on ChatGPT may be eroding human intelligence, turning users into passive consumers of pre-packaged ideas rather than active thinkers. Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab found that participants who used OpenAI’s chatbot to write essays showed alarmingly low brain engagement,…
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An artificial-intelligence model did something recently that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down. Nonprofit AI lab Palisade Research gave OpenAI’s o3 AI model a simple script that would shut off the model when triggered. In 79 out of 100 trials, o3 independently edited that script so…
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“If one company or small group of people manages to develop proper digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.” – Elon…
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On May 14, China launched into orbit the first batch of satellites for its space computing constellation aboard a Long March 2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. Unlike traditional sensing or communication satellites, those 12 satellites are essentially super computers designed for space-based data processing and AI…
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