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I wonder if they're preparing for asylum seekers trying to slash their wrists with drink cans and dash their heads against seats

Screaming, begging not to be taken but being carried onto the plane and attached to seats in restraints

Because that's what happened the first time

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Scottish government recommended deleting WhatsApp messages during pandemic opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-in…

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More than 1,000 illegal, explicit photos of children were used to train image-generation tools.
These are consequences of releasing models without safeguards in place, says UMSI's Merve Hickok, expert on AI ethics and policy. myumi.ch/VM39N
Merve Hickok FORTUNE

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Rose-tinted predictions for artificial intelligence’s grand achievements will be swept aside by underwhelming performance and dangerous results.

🔴 Get Ready for the Great AI Disappointment, writes Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) economist Daron Acemoglu wired.com/story/get-read…

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Big technology companies are recklessly pursuing profits from artificial intelligence, and urgent action is needed to mitigate the risks from the rapidly growing sector, the UN secretary-general António Guterres told the World Economic Forum meeting in …

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Altman to CNN, in October 2023: The AI we're building is so powerful it could destroy us all

Altman to Davos elites, 3 months later: Look, all of that was for the rubes to juice our numbers, no one will notice if you do deals with us or purchase our enterprise tier products

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New: Official figures passed to the UK by the Rwandan government raise fresh issues about its capacity to process asylum seekers from the UK

It has decided just over 400 claims in 5 years, and refused three quarters of them
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Over 100 deepfake paid advertisements impersonating Rishi Sunak and BBC newsreaders have collectively been viewed by up to 400,000 people over the last month before being removed by Facebook.
This is only a taster of what might come ahead of the general elections…

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In our latest report, we look at how a new era of & power is at the heart of extreme .

Billionaire & corporate power are intimately connected. Corporations are creating & sustaining a global age.

In our latest report, we look at how a new era of #corporate & #monopoly power is at the heart of extreme #inequality. Billionaire #wealth & corporate power are intimately connected. Corporations are creating & sustaining a global #gilded age.
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'This toxic mixture of more sophisticated tools and less robust prevention measures means that what experts describe as the disinformation doomsday scenario is no longer merely theoretical, many warn.'

More from Financial Times's Hannah Murphy: ft.com/content/16f23c…

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Artificial intelligence is set to affect nearly 40% of all jobs, according to a new analysis by the International Monetary Fund IMF

According to managing director Kristalina Georgieva 'in most scenarios, AI will likely worsen overall inequality'.

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Elon Musk, Bernard Arnault, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg have more than doubled their fortunes to $869bn since 2020, while the world’s poorest 60% - almost 5 billion people - have lost money theguardian.com/inequality/202…

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'More than 100 deepfake video advertisements impersonating Rishi Sunak were paid to be promoted on Facebook in the last month alone' The Guardian


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💥NEW: Housing Minister, Lee Rowley, has accepted a £5,000 donation from Palantir’s UK boss - just a few months after the spy-tech giant landed its controversial £330m data contract with NHS England 👀⬇️

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The UK government will publish a series of tests that need to be met to pass new laws on artificial intelligence, but unlike other countries it insists on refusing to create a tougher regulatory regime for the technology. ft.com/content/616300… via @ft

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'In Nairobi, Ranta and her fellow strivers...became cogs in the international tech machine, sifting through the detritus of a world that kept its rewards mostly beyond their reach.'
Must-read david pilling feature: the moderators taking on Meta & Sama ft.com/content/ef42e7…

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