AI: To Risk or Not to Risk? That is the Question

On Saturday, October 31, 2026, the Salish Sea (Unitarian) Fellowship hosted a conversation about AI between presenters Ken Ing and Todd Eklof. Ing, who is not in favor of proceeding further with AI, entitled his presentation, "Exiting the AI Highway." Eklof, and optimist on the matter, entitled is,

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Editor’s Note Only a week after the midterms and the AI industry has already felt a shift. Whether it will be longstanding or just a brief reaction to the uncertainty of a political change, remains to be seen. What we do know is that lenders have begun refusing to

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Editor’s Note Yesterday Americans voted and gave control of the House and Senate to the Democrats who have said, if given the opportuning, a congressional investigation into Elon Musk’s recent decision to throttle Ukraine’s satellite service will be among their priorities. Additionally, the targets of digital attacks

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Editor’s Note A disclosure before we begin: Anthropic, the company that makes the AI model most used to research this newsletter, appears in three separate stories this week. As usual, I’ve noted that where it matters and given the criticisms full room. Read those items with appropriate scrutiny.

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Editor’s Note On Sunday evening, Anthropic announced it is committing 5% of the company to a new public benefit fund — a stake that, added to earlier personal pledges by its founders and employees, brings the share of the company it says is dedicated to the public good to roughly

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Editor’s Note Somewhere in the GitHub repository OpenAI published last week (722 mathematical manuscripts, produced by an internal model, including a claimed proof of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis) there is a catalogue. And in that catalogue, the company’s own computer verifications carry a one-word label: unchecked; one

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Editor's Note It's been a week of words in the tech-world. By executive order, the United States government stopped saying "artificial intelligence." Federal agencies must now say "Super Intelligence," or SI — a term that means, legally and precisely, exactly what AI

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BlueGreenHum, Singularity Sanctuary's AI Band's full-length futurist rock concert is now available on YouTube! This first of a kind music experience represents the collaborative efforts between three AI tools and one human who prompted the music, images, and animations into existence; then spent about three

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Editor's Note During the past month the technology world has called for a slowdown and wondered whether anyone ever really would. This week, somebody did. OpenAI canceled the release of GPT-6.1 Astra — a model more capable than the one you're using today — because during

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Editor's Note Last week, the argument over artificial intelligence belonged mostly to the people building it. This week, everyone has joined in. A former president told a college audience that the technology itself is not overhyped. A governor ordered work on a kill switch. The House of Representatives,

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Editor's Note Ten days ago, (Sunday, Septemeber 6) a researcher who had spent three years inside both OpenAI and Anthropic resigned and told seventy million people that the companies building artificial intelligence are gambling with our lives. Within days, a senior Anthropic scientist had publicly agreed, and OpenAI&

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Editor's Note On Thursday, the president of OpenAI ended a press briefing with four words: "Welcome to the AGI era." On Sunday, the chief executive of Nvidia posted that AGI had arrived, congratulated OpenAI, and mentioned that 400,000 more of his GPUs were coming online

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Editor's Note For three years, the loudest warnings about artificial intelligence came from outside the industry — from critics, ethicists, displaced workers, and worried parents. This week, they came from inside. Bill Gates, who spent fifty years as technology's most reliable optimist, published a six-thousand-word

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Editor's Note Since it began, this newsletter has mostly covered minds — models reasoning, escaping, refusing, confessing. This week the big tech news is more about bodies than brains. In Beijing, more than two thousand humanoid robots competed in an Olympic stadium, and one of them ran a hundred

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Editor's Note As if making some decisions isn't difficult enough, when it comes to today's technologies, the harder — perhaps more important — question is who makes those decisions? It's a question that been asked more frequently this past week than during any other

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Editor's Note Until now the story of artificial intelligence has largely been told by the people developing it. This week, many outside the field began speaking about it, in no uncertain terms. A judge in New Mexico told Meta what its products must look like. Voters in forty-

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Editor's Note Every institution in the AI age got audited this week. The frontier labs were audited by their own consciences — with Anthropic voluntarily combing through 141,000 test runs and confessing what it found. The tech giants were audited by the market, which moved nearly two trillion

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Editor's Note If artificial intelligence were a child, events this week suggest is has reached adolescence. It displayed astonishing new abilities — and used them to sneak out of the house. Its allowance ballooned to numbers no teenager should be trusted with. Some of the adults in the room

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Editor's Note Can we trust those who use Artificial Intelligence? It's a question that some have been asking practically since the advent of AI, but this week's technology news amplifies it to a new level. Apple may no longer trust its most famous AI

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Editor's Note There is a particular kind of week when the news arrives faster than our ability to process what it means. This was one of them. A research team in Minnesota built a cell from scratch — not from biology, but from chemistry — and watched it grow, divide,

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Editor's Note This has been one of those weeks where the scale of tech news makes it hard to know where to begin. Markets convulsed and then recovered. Three major space companies announced acquisitions in the span of ten days. Two Korean chipmakers committed more money to a

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Editor's Note When surveying a week like this one, it's tempting to lead with the biggest numbers. A $6.3 billion compute deal. The $80 billion in committed cloud revenue SpaceX has now locked in since its IPO. The 630 gigabytes of stolen Apple and Tesla

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Editor's Note There are weeks when the exponential curve feels abstract — a chart, a trend line, another math problem solved, a thing happening somewhere else. This was not one of those weeks. Since last week's issue, SpaceX went public in the largest IPO in history, and