A new study has found that AI systems known as large language models (LLMs) can exhibit “Machiavellianism,” or intentional and amoral manipulativeness, which can then lead to deceptive behavior.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has used the claims of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to push the Paris Climate Agreement, and based on that, the quest for Net Zero emissions.
The McCullough Foundation, informative update on the current H5N1 global situation has received considerable attention and garnered valuable feedback. Here are the key takeaways:
Environment Canada has pumped out a Xeet with the summer temperature forecast map of Canada covered in flaming orange red almost from coast to coast to coast, with a thin band of blue/grey down the West Coast.
Sales of electric vehicles plunged across Europe last month, fuelled by a sharp drop-off in demand in Germany and the Netherlands. The Telegraph has more.
Recent calculations by the distinguished atmospheric scientists Richard Lindzen, William Happer and William van Wijngaarden suggest that if the entire world eliminated net carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 it would avert warming of an almost unmeasurable 0.07°C.