Power fears empathy because empathy refuses to rank human worth.
Manuel Pastor
@mpastor.bsky.social
🇪🇸 🇬🇧 Head of Pharmacoinformatics lab at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) | Machine learning application in biomedicine, toxicology and suicide prevention | ORCID 0000-0001-8850-1341 | Proud of teaching and mentoring
Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat modeling for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI. Before that, she led the technical AI safety program at what is now Coefficient Giving. Dwarkesh Patel podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=X50z...
Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"
YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel
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The Hugging Face incident may turn out to be one of the most important milestones/warnings in technological revolution now underway. History may look back at this moment/point to it. Everyone should be reading ab it and thinking about it. Here are a few good pieces: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...
Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Gift Article)
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.
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Within two years, Australia has managed to drastically reduce its use of fossil fuels because #batteries supply the electricity at peak times. We need much more #energystorage for the energy transition! #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow
We hope you're enjoying the new features and improvements in #LibreOffice 26.8! This was all made possible thanks to your donations, which are the majority of @tdforg.bsky.social funding: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08... #foss #opensource #freesoftware
El 28 de agosto de 1995, muere con 65 años, 🖊️ Michael Ende Escritor alemán. En 1973 había publicado 📖 Momo y en 1979 📖 La historia interminable En la práctica, bastarán estas dos inolvidables #novelas para considerarlo uno de los #escritores más relevantes de la #LiteraturaJuvenil del XX #Literatura
In the public hospital "Del Mar", Barcelona, Spain, nurses take bedridden patients to the beach in order to help with their recovery. Original post
The @ec.europa.eu has launched a comprehensive interactive infographic designed to equip researchers with both strategic and practical guidance on maximising the impact of their work through effective intellectual property management. ➡️ https://ja.cat/Pfe5Q
You can just ban socially toxic technologies! They were socially banned like twelve years ago with Google Glasses, we can do it again in more formal ways with this latest attempt to push the Pervert's Delight™ onto society. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Push for import ban on 'pervert' smart glasses amid privacy concerns
Support is growing for a ban on the import of so-called “smart glasses”, amid an influx of low-cost devices that are being used to film Australians without their consent.
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Letter from 130 bioethicists condemns the “unwarranted, ill-advised, & frankly bizarre vendetta against a scientist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, rather than making a sincere effort to learn from the painful experiences of the pandemic to improve national preparedness” bioethicstoday.org/blog/an-open...
Blog - An Open Letter of Support for Anthony Fauci from the Bioethics Community - Bioethics Today
As individuals concerned with ethics in science, medicine, and public health, we wish to express our dismay at the approach taken by Senate leaders to
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The Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant was set to become the first Spanish nuclear power plant to close under the country’s plan to phase out all its reactors by 2035. Now, the plant remains powered on until 2030. Read more in our latest blog. shorturl.at/r1WYL #WePlanet #NuclearPower #NetZero
Why a Spanish nuclear power plant you’ve never heard of should give you climate optimism
In a win for climate, the Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant will stay open, keeping reliable, low-carbon power on the grid when we need it most.
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On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper...
I did not have this in my bingo card this year: "DeepMind dismantles AlphaFold team in strategy shift" #Alphafold #AI #Biotech #DeepMind
Well that sucks. www.engadget.com/2225849/goog... Least bummer interpretation: AlphaFold served its purpose, DeepMind already spun off a drug lab, so it was time to reassign the time.
Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini - Engadget
DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.
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Hello everyone! Many of you likely saw this image recently with the Apple TV+ 'Neuromancer' promotion. Some know, others don't, but this artwork is mine, created alongside actor & post-production artist Milton Menezes, as a personal project and a homage to the original Neuromancer romance
So, we can build Data Centers, but not Battery Storage centers? And solar, wind to power them..
🫀Say hello to new project @impactmedihi.bsky.social! Their goal is to design, develop and deploy a people-centred multidisciplinary cardio-metabolic care framework, supporting the integration of patient-reported information into clinical practice. 👉 bit.ly/4pIL5uo #HorizonEU #CardiomatabolicCar
🎙️ New Inside EMA podcast: Can medicines one day be developed without animal testing? Discover how innovation and the 3Rs (replace, reduce, refine) are helping shape the future of medicines development while protecting patient safety. 🎧 Listen now
Inside EMA: Better science, better medicines: how innovation is reshaping animal testing
YouTube video by European Medicines Agency
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Am I the only one watching devastating wildfires break out across Europe while our governments green light data centres, more fossil fuels and more. Great swathes of materialistic humans building huge monster homes, buying jets and cars that just pollute. And none of them seem to care. ☹️
Europe raises alarm over AI European commentators and analysts warned that rapid advances in artificial intelligence have sparked widespread concern across Europe over job losses, soaring data‑centre energy use, governance gaps and… With replies by 🎓Pedro Domingos +44 more scholars.
Europe raises alarm over AI
Replies by 🎓Pedro Domingos, 🎓Suresh Venkatasubramanian, 🎓Gernot Wagner, 🎓Cas Mudde, 🎓Steve Keen +40 more scholars
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