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Nick Harkaway
@nickharkaway.com

Mad scientist creating zombies warns zombie army may soon ravage towns, villages. "Who can save us from this terrible fate?"

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AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers, Anthropic warns reut.rs/4dUgiXd

reut.rsAI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers, Anthropic warnsAnthropic said on Monday its experiments suggested small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to ​self-replicate on commercial internet-of-things (IoT) devices, such as smart ‌ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes.
Nick Harkaway
@nickharkaway.com

"Only remedy may be creation of zombie army to fight zombie army," warns Other Mad Scientist.

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Gaia Vince
@wanderinggaia.bsky.social

The only thing ministers ever talk about in connection with growth is AI, which seems an insanely risky basket to put all your eggs in. Never education, skills, clean energy etc

Nick Harkaway
@nickharkaway.com

"I don't want my brain eaten," says 5 year old charged with terrorist sympathies over anti-zombie campaign in primary school. Minister: "It's important we try little Clara as an adult."

electricpolecat.bsky.social
@electricpolecat.bsky.social

"Holding up a placard that is protesting against zombies is breaking the law of our land," says Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, about police charging anti-zombie protestors under the Terrorism Act (Revised 2027). The Act outlaws everything the Home Secretary deems offensive as terrorism.

Nick Harkaway
@nickharkaway.com

International medical blood transfusion and organ supplies in crisis as zombie manufacturing outbids hospitals. "It's important we take the lead in zombie research and implementation," says Prime Minister.

pete twentythree
@pete23.com

Also zero chance of you fitting the dangerous LLMs into a toaster. Botnet controlled by one, sure, but right now the only worrying things run in big datacentres. An axe through every Nvidia card requiring more than 300W or having more than 12 gigs of RAM should finish this problem.