When did tech executives start sounding like doomsday preppers with venture capital? But here we are with Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, maker of Claude AI — publishing a 38-page essay that reads less like a product roadmap and more like a civilization-ending threat assessment. The title alone should…
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Holy Bots, Batman — Faith Goes Digital
Something strange is happening in churches across America. People are texting Jesus. Pastors are building sermon outlines with AI. And somewhere in Pennsylvania, a chatbot is probably explaining the difference between transubstantiation and metaphorical presence at 3 a.m. Welcome to digital ministry 2.0 — where theology meets technology, and the…
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Google’s Weather AI Had a Better Hurricane Season Than Most Humans
Every now and then, a piece of technology doesn’t just work—it shows off.That’s what happened this hurricane season when Google’s new AI weather model outperformed some of the world’s most respected forecasting systems. As reported by Ars Technica [¹], Google DeepMind’s “GraphCast” didn’t just hold its own—it often beat traditional…
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Your Digital Shadow Has a Rap Sheet and Advertisers Know It
The headline almost sounds like a Black Mirror episode that didn’t make it to air: AI companies are training their systems on crime data to sell ads more effectively. Yes, you read that right. The same information that used to live in dusty police databases—arrests, mugshots, court records, neighborhood stats—is…
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Apocalypse Now—Funded by Venture Capital
A century ago, you needed a pulpit and a microphone to warn about the Antichrist. Now you can do it with a slide deck and venture funding. The Guardian reported this week that Peter Thiel, one of Silicon Valley’s most theatrical billionaires, has been delivering sold-out “Antichrist lectures” in San…
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The Future of Your Feed- AI Slop Served Piping Hot
Your social feed’s future reality? A lot less… real. Instead of vacation photos or shaky football highlights, you might scroll into a clip of Bigfoot chasing two bewildered reporters through a WeWork kitchen. Or a suspiciously lifelike video of your buddy’s grandma rapping over a drill beat. That’s AI slop….