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During the recent conflict with Iran, a US special operations analyst used an AI chatbot to help produce an intelligence report claiming a Chinese vessel was carrying nuclear weapons components. The military mobilized to intercept the ship, with armed personnel and aircraft readied, before officials discovered the report was based on a hallucinated AI output and called off the operation.
Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would permanently prohibit building or deploying superintelligent AI and temporarily halt advanced AI development until federal safety rules exist. The bill also calls for a new cabinet-level agency to monitor AI systems for dangerous capabilities and pursue international agreements against superintelligence development worldwide.
Pacific Fusion, a well-funded startup, has begun assembling a large fusion energy machine that uses intense electrical pulses to compress hydrogen fuel capsules, aiming to be the first device to produce more energy than it consumes. The facility, located near a major US nuclear-weapons laboratory, may also support research on maintaining the nation's aging nuclear warhead stockpile. It joins dozens of other startups racing to commercialize fusion as a clean, virtually limitless energy source.
Pacific Fusion has started building a fusion device near Los Lunas, New Mexico, using more than 150 truck-sized Marx generator modules that will discharge enormous electrical pulses to compress a small hydrogen fuel capsule. The company aims to reach 'net facility gain'—producing more energy than the machine consumes—by the end of this decade, while also positioning the facility to support research on the US nuclear weapons stockpile.