Humanity's days are numbered
[Posted Monday, September 14, 2026 9/14/26 3:00 pm]
I've been warning about this for some time now.
Last week, Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, writing on X that OpenAI and Anthropic were "gambling with our lives," warning that "the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." A lead Anthropic researcher, Evan Hubinger, agreed in a post on X that Coxon was right, saying, "we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!"
They believe this could happen when AI gets too smart and takes control of things like power centers and nuclear weapons. This is basically the plot of the 1970 sci-fi film Colossus: The Forbin Project.
In the meantime, Beijing disparaged the warnings from U.S. tech leaders as "fearmongering" from a "Cold War playbook" aimed at hobbling China. President Trump agrees, rejecting the idea of placing guardrails on artificial intelligence.
In response to the CEO of Anthropic saying that AI companies should "slow the pace" of AI development, Trump called the reports a hoax and a conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. He added, "Whoever wins AI, wins."
We can only hope that cooler minds prevail and humanity is saved from extinction by the evil Skynet.
It's all starting to come true
[Posted Thursday, July 30, 2026 7/30/26 8:35 am]
This is a real headline from Google News yesterday:
On Tuesday, the Trump Administration through the FCC banned new humanoid and quadruped robot imports from foreign manufacturers, saying they pose "unacceptable risks" to US national security.
I warned about this in a recent blog post and now it seems to be happening for real.
 | EngineAI T800 humanoid robots
in Zhengzhou, China |
Our government has finally stepped up to state these robots are going too far. They fear these Chinese humanoid robots will collect data and send it back to China, virtually spying on us.
In addition, this week Delta and United Airlines have banned humanoid and animal robots from their flights, citing safety concerns over their large lithium-ion batteries, and how they pose additional challenges when it comes to emergency procedures and evacuations if the robots are located in the passenger area.
Although humanoid robots remain rare outside laboratories and factories, numerous companies are developing the technology, with robot evangelists such as Elon Musk predicting that they will eventually become common.
Isaac Asimov wrote about the human fear and distrust of humanoid robots in the 50s, and now that fear is becoming a reality.
First, spying on us. What's next? What's to prevent these robots from being aggressive towards human beings upon instructions from their foreign builders?
All this from a potentially world-dominating power that we know does not have our best interests at heart. AI is progressing too fast and finally the US government and some private companies are taking some kind of preventative action. But will it be too little too late?
The future is now
[Posted Monday, June 22, 2026 6/22/26 7:45 am]
This is a real picture and headline from Google News:
Don't these people read books? This is very scary to me, because this kind of thing is exactly the dark future foretold by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in his robot stories, especially his novel The Caves of Steel.
 | | First edition of The Caves of Steel |
Originally published in 1954, and still in print, The Caves of Steel takes place on a future Earth where humans have gone off to colonize other planets. While still shunned and feared on Earth, humanoid robots are common on the "Spacer" worlds.
An important aspect of the story is what is now called Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, which were hard-coded into the programming of all humanoid robots. They are:
- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law
In the course of the story (this isn't a spoiler, you've had since 1954 to read the book!) an Earth detective, "Lije" Baley, figures out that his own boss, Chief of Police Enderby, had done something unthinkable and gotten around the Three Laws in a very ingenious way to use a Spacer robot to kill a Spacer.
The Three Laws and the breaking thereof is a recurring theme of Asimov's work and much of the science fiction which followed him, including, especially, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Colossus: The Forbin Project, stories of intelligent computers taking over the world or otherwise causing dangerous havoc, because of their mis-use or mis-treatment by humans.
In real life, computers and AI are getting smarter all the time. And now, we have the use of robots in China to kill people. And the three laws protecting us humans are nowhere to be seen.
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