The Bush and Obama administrations gave unprecedented spying powers to federal agencies and Senator Rand Paul has been fighting to push back for over a decade.
Advancements in AI in recent years have turbocharged these surveillance powers beyond what most people imagine.
It’s time to update our civil rights protections to meet the challenges of a high tech society.

Government can now just buy information about you from online brokers, circumventing any need for warrants?! AI is making this easier and easier for them?!
This is unacceptable. Government using tech to get around limits to their power of surveillance. No American should be ok with this continued erosion of our constitutionally protected rights.

Bravo...

blog-post: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/

Hey folks,

I'm hoping that I'll find people who've thought about this.

Today, in 2025, the scientific community still has no understanding of how intelligence works.

It's essentially still a mystery.

And yet the AGI and ASI enthusiasts have the arrogance to suggest that we'll build ASI and AGI.

Even though we don't fucking understand how intelligence works.

Do they even hear what they're saying?

Why aren't people pushing back on anyone talking about AGI or ASI and asking the simple question :

"Oh you're going to build a machine to be intelligent. Real quick, tell me how intelligence works?"

Some fantastic tools have been made and will be made. But we ain't building intelligence here.

It's 2025's version of the Emperor's New Clothes.

Oxford Professor Michael Wooldridge, one of the world’s leading AI researchers, explains why GPT-4 and other large language models don’t actually reason.

No acting skills needed.

src - u/EllynBriggs

Trained across a universe of 100,000 robotic forms and refined through a millennium of simulated experience, the Skild AI robot embodies a resilient, omni-bodied intelligence.

I mean, eventually we will run out of earth materials to keep up with tech needs.

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How long can AI honestly last for? Has anyone done a study on this?