Mal Fletcher

🤔Will physical jobs be immune from AI takeover? What will AI jobs mean for the burgeoning power of AI developers @Google, @Meta, @Apple, @xAI? As we rely on AI for services government previously provided (eg @NHS) will AI threaten democracy? #ai #work #jobs #democracy

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Will AI fully autonomous weapons save money funding human fighters? If so, what other costs might they incur? #warfare #IranWar‌ #AIBoom #UkraineRussia

Great news Britain. Thank you, members of the Lords. Shame members of the Commons couldn't exhibit the same moral courage and good sense. This horrid idea will rear its head again, but government-assisted suicide has been denied for now.

🚨As @Meta and @Apple significantly step up their involvement in the AI space, new questions emerge about the burgeoning power of bigtech leaders, through AI, in areas beyond tech—eg healthcare, education, policing (facial recognition), elections, warfare, freedom of expression etc. #techbros #bigtechpower #ai #keirstarmer

The Pope is both right—and profoundly mistaken. Of course, morality extends beyond questions of sexuality. But sexuality is not a peripheral concern. It is anthropological. It is the very framework through which society orders the relationship between man and woman—and, in turn, how society organizes itself at scale. At a moment when the most basic realities of human existence are being contested—when the meaning of male and female is obscured, and when marriage and the family are in visible decline—these are not marginal issues. They are foundational. Architectonic. They underwrite the possibility of social stability and human flourishing. To suggest, then, that our attention should be directed elsewhere is not merely a shift in emphasis; it is a misjudgment of first principles. He should know better than to say something this shortsighted.

✈️ 🇮🇷The situation in the Straits of Hormuz will have a major impact on summer holiday flights, even if the waterway was to be opened tomorrow. The growing, unfulfilled backlog of demand for jet fuel stretches back to the start of the war. It's unlikely to be eased any time soon. #IranWar‌ #straitsofhormuz #flights #holidays #jetfuel

👍💡 Henry Kissinger: "Today, humans mediate between machines and reality. But if humans were indeed to choose a future of moral passivity, retreating from the carbon-based world into the silicon one, burrowing further into digital holes of detachment, and handing over to machines the access to raw reality, then the roles could be reversed." —'Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope and the Human Spirit', by Kissinger, Mundie, Schmitt #Kissinger #ai #humanity #quotes #technology #books

After three years of waiting, careful calculations, and precise astronomical timing, Leonardo Sens captured this shot.

I hope the US plans to say “thank you” to Ukraine.

After publicly rejecting Zelenskyy’s offer, stating "We don't need their help in drone defense" Trump’s administration has deployed Ukraine’s Sky Map platform at Prince Sultan Air Base. ​The move highlights how Ukraine’s military tech has surged ahead in drone warfare, battle-hardened by 4 years of russia’s war - Reuters.

Utopia or dystopia? Neither outlook will work, long-term, with our approach to AI. If we choose to be utopian, we will overlook AI's dangers. If we opt for a dystopian view, we'll lose hope and become paralysed by fear. The answer? Limit AI so that it works to the best of human ideals and values. #humanityfirst #ai #utopia

🎭🤔 Technologies like AI fascinate us, but that word carries two distinct meanings and your future outlook is determined by which of these best describes your reaction to change. #technology #future #humanityfirst #ai

Oxford AI professor Michael Wooldridge: "ChatGPT doesn't understand anything. It's essentially doing some fancy statistics."

The public does not support Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill, and does not wish it to be forced through without the Lords’ consent, new polling has revealed.😲 Read the story here: righttolife.org.uk/dpde

It is essential that the €90 billion European support package for Ukraine be unblocked. There can be no grounds for blocking it anymore. The EU asked Ukraine to repair the Druzhba oil pipeline, which had been destroyed by Russia. We have repaired it. We hope the EU will also deliver on the agreed commitments. There has also been no progress for a long time on new sanctions against Russia over this war, which is particularly unhelpful when the United States is easing restrictions. Pressure must be maintained so that the Russians do not feel they can wage war with impunity.

Euthanasia on the basis of a "completed life" (no sickness, no pain, just old age)? This, says a Dutch expert, is under consideration in at least one country that adopted #assistedsuicide. It is insanity, from beginning to end. A death cult hiding behind supposed "compassion"