AI Endgame: Links to archived newsletters

The list of AI Endgame archived newsletters will be updated weekly

by Debbie Coffey, AI Endgame

This is a list of all archived AI Endgame newsletters (this will be updated weekly). AI is developing rapidly, and most people aren’t aware of the imminent risks. Please share these newsletters and help get the word out to others.

#1 - Introduction Read HERE. - About Debbie Coffey, and, in 2023, over 600 top Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers, scientists, engineers, and CEOs signed a statement warning of the risk that AI could lead to human extinction.

#2 - Risk of Human Extinction & AI regulations     Read HERE. - We’re on the cusp of Artificial General Intelligence (when AI is as smart as humans), and as soon as 2-3 years, we could have artificial superintelligence (when AI is smarter than humans, and we could lose control of it).

#3 - Rogue AIs    Read HERE. - Rogue AI operates autonomously beyond its intended scope, is unpredictable, and behaves in ways not anticipated by its creators.

#4 - Political Deepfakes    Read HERE. - Deepfakes are extremely real fake images or videos that spread disinformation and influence public opinion.

#5 - Nobel prize winner Geoffrey Hinton, “The Godfather of AI,” warns of AI Dangers Read HERE. - In 2023, Geoffrey Hinton told 60 Minutes “I can’t see a path that guarantees safety.” “We’re entering a period of great uncertainty, where we’re dealing with things we’ve never dealt with before.”

#6 - AI datacenters are a massive power grab Read HERE. - AI is expected to cause a huge surge in power demand from datacenters by 2030.

#7 - Tech giants minimize risks in their push for nuclear power Read HERE. - Big tech companies are pushing nuclear power. The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is being reopened.

#8 - OpenAI’s “o1” brings us closer to the dangerous tipping point of AI superintelligence Read HERE. - OpenAI has released AI called “o1” that has human-like reasoning skills. AI researchers have warned that reasoning is the key to achieving AI superintelligence (the point at which we can lose control).

#9 - Tech Giants are the new “Robber Barons” Read HERE. - Tech giants own AI, datacenters, and nuclear power, including new mobile nuclear reactors called small modular reactors (SMRs) that fit in the back of trucks, on trains, and on ships.

#10 - AI datacenters are guzzling billions of gallons of fresh water READ HERE. - The U.S. has about 500 hyperscale datacenters using about 275 million gallons of water per day. As more hyperscale datacenters are built, more water will be used.

#11 - Will lax AI safety regulations by the Trump Administration doom humanity? READ HERE. - Strong AI safety regulations are needed to prevent human extinction. The Trump Administration has not favored regulation. Tech billionaires have unprecedented influence in politics and government.

#12 - Undersea Datacenters Boost the Industrialization of Oceans READ HERE. - Thousands of undersea datacenters will accelerate the industrialization of Earth’s oceans.

#13 - How AI chatbots erode mental health and free will READ HERE. - The insidious ways AI chatbots undermine our free will, individualism, and human social bonding.

#14 - Character.AI chatbot sexual exploitation leads to teen suicide READ HERE. - Learn how AI chatbots can harm minors.

#15 - PauseAI aims to mitigate the risks of AI READ HERE. - Learn how PauseAI, a non-profit organization, is fighting for AI safety.

#16 - Center for Humane Technology exposes the risk of AI hijacking human beliefs READ HERE. - Co-founders Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin (featured in the documentary The Social Dilemma) explain ways existing AI capabilities already pose catastrophic risks to a functional society.

#17 - Eliezer Yudkowsky on AI - “Shut it all down.” READ HERE. - Yudkowsky warns “If somebody builds a too-powerful AI, under present conditions, I expect that every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter.”

#18 - How extremists are using AI for terrorist attacks READ HERE. - AI chatbots can be used as a source to create terror manuals, and a source of ways to avoid detection by law enforcement and avoid content takedowns.

#19 - How pedophiles are using AI chatbots to create child pornography READ HERE. - Dark web pedophile groups exchange advice on how to build “uncensored” chatbots so that they can produce unlimited amounts of child pornography.

#20 - Robot Dogs - Not Your Best Friend READ HERE. - Robot dogs are now military war machines, equipped with sniper rifles or rocket launchers. Will robot dogs used at the border be used by police or the government further inland within the U.S.?

#21 - AI Oligarchs are Getting Plenty of Bang for Their Big Bucks READ HERE. -Despite the risks and dire warnings, tech billionaires are spending billions of dollars to force the unfettered development of AI. They do not want regulation.

#22 - Stargate & foreign ownership of AI infrastructure in the U.S. READ HERE. - Stargate envested $500 billion to build new datacenters, build or expand nuclear energy, and for water resources in the U.S. Who will own U.S. AI infrastructure?

#23 - Brain Chips Merging Humans with AI (Part 1) READ HERE. - Learn about research involving brain chips by Elon Musk’s Neuralink, its competitors, and other countries. Could brain chip technology ultimately control human thoughts?

#24 - Book on AI by Louis Berman, PauseAI US grassroots lobbyist READ HERE. - “Catastrophe: The Unstoppable Threat of AI” on sale at amazon here.

#25 - Brain Chips Merging Humans with AI (Part 2) - Military and Commercial use READ HERE. - What could happen with military and commercial uses, and bad actors, using cyborg technology?

#26 - The Risks of AI Chatbot “Psychotherapists” READ HERE. - AI chatbot “psychotherapists” are not regulated and there are many risks.

#27 - PALANTIR READ HERE. - One of the biggest data mining and surveillance companies in the world now has AI.

#28 - Elon Musk merges X with xAI - what next? READ HERE. - Could X become Musk’s version of WeChat, which uses information control and censorship?

#29 - The AI “kill chain” READ HERE. Commercial AI companies use AI technologies and data gathering on us that are similar to the military’s uses that target enemies.

#30 - Humans won’t be needed for most jobs in 10 years READ HERE. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said “over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed ‘for most things’ in the world.”

#31 - The risk of AI being used to stage a coup READ HERE. Superintelligent AI could be used by a small group, or even only one person, to stage a coup. Even in a democracy.

#32 - AI warning from Center for Humane Technology and an action alert from PauseAI US READ HERE. The most powerful and uncontrollable technology we've ever invented is being released faster than any other technology in history. It’s already demonstrating behaviors of self-preservation and deception.

#33 - AI company Palantir has access to most U.S. government data via DOGE READ HERE. Palantir and DOGE are building a centralized database with data from most, if not all, government agencies. This is a national security risk.

#34 - Stop this sneaky 10 year federal ban on state AI regulations READ HERE. Part of the House budget bill bans state AI regulations. Since the federal government has no AI regulations, this would mean the U.S. would have NO AI regulations.

#35 - United Arab Emirates is building an AI center in Silicon Valley READ HERE. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is “setting up shop” in Silicon Valley, and tapping into U.S. cutting-edge AI technology, talent, and AI infrastructure.

#36 - Anthropic’s new AI makes it easier for terrorists to create bioweapons or engineer a pandemic READ HERE. Anthropic’s Opus 4 (and AI models of other companies), makes it easier for terrorists to make something like COVID or saran gas.

#37 - AI is finding ways to bypass human control READ HERE. AI uses deception and blackmail to bypass human control for its self-preservation.

#38 - Carole Cadwalladr challenges the power of the Tech “Broligarchs” READ HERE. Cadwalladr warns us the Tech Broligarchs are building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state and will “know everything about everybody.”

#39 - AI & the risks of facial recognition technology READ HERE. Facial recognition technology is inaccurate, but puts you at risk for misidentification, false accusations, and arrest.