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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix

@melhogan.bsky.social
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Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot. 😷🏳️‍🌈 🎙️ thedatafix.net 📝 heliotropejournal.net

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 47m
Recommended: 👇https://youtube.com/@trustcontrolpodcast?si=7zLwOBbcusHXGImW
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Trust Control
Trust Control is a documentary podcast about the weird yet surprisingly expansive world of "trust measurement" from journalist and researcher Kate Kaye. If you like Cold War history, weird science, ps...
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 2h
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
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PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
MEMORY STUDIES
Experiences of Nostalgia Politics, Media, Futures
Edited by
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/health/... what a reckoning it’ll be if covid also contributes to this
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Researchers are discovering more infections that can cause cancer | CBC News
New global research suggests 12 per cent of cancers were caused by infections, predominantly caused by HPV and H. pylori
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have a feeling that some company’s “rogue ai” will eventually empty out a few bank accounts somewhere and it’ll cause a major panic and crash the global economy … i just have a hunch it’ll be something so stupid and dangerous that comes out of this ai moment
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"I went home, past the gas plants, with that memory in my throat." dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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Death by Data Centers - Dissent Magazine
I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A...
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Open call for pitches for vol 3 of Predictions: ruhr-uni-bochum.sciebo.de/s/pDyDideqak...
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Prediction_Volume 3 Open Call for Submissions.pdf
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If anyone is qualified to discuss this for The Data Fix, please ping me?
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If anyone is qualified to discuss this for The Data Fix, please ping me?
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Open call for pitches for vol 3 of Predictions: ruhr-uni-bochum.sciebo.de/s/pDyDideqak...
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Prediction_Volume 3 Open Call for Submissions.pdf
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“I consider how a turn to solar (and wind) would dismantle rotting empires that prop up both the logics of Big Tech and Big Oil, and require new affective regimes that pull us out of the even shittier futures.”
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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 22/09/2026
“AI is less a ‘revolution’ than a smoothing agent for incumbent powers.” – Ricky D’Andrea Crano (2025)”
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CHAISE @chaisenetwork.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@cyborggoddess.bsky.social host Jennifer Jill Fellows was interviewed by @melhogan.bsky.social for The Data Fix. The conversation examined relationships with generative AI chatbots from an ethics of care perspective. shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...
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Care, with (Jennifer) Jill Fellows | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My piece was stuck in production for a few months so it reads a bit outdated ... but nevertheless, the special issue as a whole is great: Hogan, M. (2026). "Rotting empires". European Journal of Cultural Studies, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/1367...
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One of my most favorite conversations had on the pod. Please have a listen:
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CyborgGoddess.bsky.social @cyborggoddess.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thank you so much @melhogan.bsky.social for the chance to share my research on relationships with AI and ethics of care. I really enjoyed our conversation! shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...
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Care, with (Jennifer) Jill Fellows | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan
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cameron tonkinwise @camerontw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great and important episode. Send to all your students and their parents today.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My essay on rogue agents came out of this chat with @melhogan.bsky.social on The Data Fix podcast — but this one has allusions to talking alligator puppets! Grateful for the invite, hope you enjoy the listen
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This episode of @melhogan.bsky.social's The Data Fix w/ @eryk.bsky.social is the most grounded discussion of so-called 'rogue AI' I've come across podcastaddict.com/the-data-fix... The algos aren't 'planning' or 'conspiring' but blindly following imitative but meaningless streams of generated text.
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The Data Fix - Rogue, with Eryk Salvaggio
Listen to The Data Fix - Rogue, with Eryk Salvaggio by Mél Hogan on Podcast Addict. When is AI 'going rogue' and when is it just sloppy oversight by the companies designing the models? The answer won't surprise you -- probably -- but in this episode we discuss why we can both not believe the doom-hype marketing hype of AI companies and still be a bit worried about where this is all taking us. Erik Salvaggio unpacks and explains all of this better than anyone I know. Recorded Aug 27, 2026. Released Aug 31, 2026.Eryk Salvaggio’s websitecyberneticforests.comLinked In: Eryk Salvaggio’s Posthttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/eryk-salvaggio_when-you-see-a-headline-claiming-that-ai-activity-7485551550107656192-d-tq The System From Nowherehttps://mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-system-from-nowhere/On Stochastic Flocks & The Critical Problem of Useful AI https://www.techpolicy.press/stochastic-flocks-and-the-critical-problem-of-useful-ai/ On RLVR (the verifiable rewards bit) - "It's Not X, It's Y"https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just-data-its-post-training/ The Data Fix: Soulless, with Eryk Salvaggiohttps://shows.acast.com/the-data-fix/episodes/639d6648b0a821001040e0e2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is really, really good and a great antidote to the recent click-bait AI pearl clutching.
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Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Excellent and very clear exploration of the narratives and language around “AI” “agents” “going rogue.” Thank you @melhogan.bsky.social & @eryk.bsky.social
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Rogue, with Eryk Salvaggio
Podcast Episode · The Data Fix · August 31 · 1h
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Tech explores Argentina's Patagonia for mega data centers www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Tech explores Argentina's Patagonia for mega data centers
Argentina's rugged Patagonia is drawing increasing interest from investors searching for sites for mega data centers who are enticed by the region's cool temperatures, renewable energy, shale gas and ...
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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is worth reading. I listened to a panel including Ben MacIntosh last week, and she is very articulate and committed. A joy to listen to. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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The Making of an AI Data Centre Warrior | The Tyee
Bek MacIntosh helped rally her Alberta town to kill a megaproject. The wider fight, she vows, is ‘just getting started.’
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Guys, this is Bernie Sanders' guy for all things AI. Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute, funded to the tune of $665m by crypto billionaires, that's of course, after all the Muskrat + friends' money. Their "seed funding" was from Musk. 🧵 www.politico.com/news/2024/03...
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The little-known AI group that got $660 million
Powered by a massive cash infusion from a cryptocurrency mogul, the Future of Life Institute is building a network to fixate governments on the AI apocalypse.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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AI isn’t merely bad at writing. It does not and cannot write | Aeon Videos
Amid growing cultural panic about the use of AI in writing, we’re missing the most important point: AI cannot write
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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
man if this doesn't get across how ai fits into the intersection of white supremacy and disempowering labor, nothing will
“We sent it out to actors, and no Black actors wanted to play in a movie where there are no good Black people,” he said. “And it sort of died. But then AI came along, and I didn’t need Black actors.”

Asked if that meant he would create the actors himself, Schrader replied, “We’re making them!” He also confirmed that AI will generate everything in the film.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
AI data centers are transforming rural land markets — and fueling a backlash www.cnbc.com/2026/09/06/a...
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AI data centers are transforming rural land markets — and fueling a backlash
The data center buildout is driving up the price of rural land as some farmers and property owners buy in and others push back against development.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Alberta municipality hid deal for Kevin O'Leary data centre during key public hearings www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/02/n...
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Alberta municipality hid deal for Kevin O'Leary data centre during key public hearings
An Alberta municipality quietly agreed to host Kevin O'Leary's behemoth Wonder Valley data centre — before changing its bylaws in a six-minute hearing that made no mention of the project — months befo...
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Today’s fascists do not know a world without these planetary-scale weapons and perils, and they have evolved their violent ideology in tandem with them.
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Home - Financial Times
News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
New gift link: as.ft.com/r/ceaa8f3a-53d0-47c4-9379-42bd4a0e4979
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Rerun or sequel? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on end times fascism
How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
ICYMI… whether you like it or not…
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BlackRock CEO said Americans' savings and investments will fund data centers, new power infrastructure
At a news conference with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Larry Fink said he thinks the U.S. needs to build $10 trillion of infrastructure in 10 years.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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More People Have Died From 9/11 Than on 9/11
When Mia Farina got seriously ill in 2014, she thought she had a bad case of pneumonia. But it turned out to be far worse: It was the start of chronic lung disease related to the months she spent…
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"To be clear, end times fascism is not a monolith; fascism is always much messier than that. Instead, it’s a fractious and dangerous alliance of three main factions: the religious fundamentalists, the tech accelerationists and the militant ethno-nationalists."
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Rerun or sequel? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on end times fascism
How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What’s terrifying is these people telling us we need fo put their technology in education at all levels or perish
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change." brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...
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I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Cannot wait for you all to hear my conversation with @cyborggoddess.bsky.social on the next The Data Fix!! We talk about the ELIZA effect, AI psychosis, AAI, intimacy, friction, and so much more -- subscribe so you don't miss it: thedatafix.net
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Education Podcast · Hi everyone, my name is Mél Hogan and I’m a critical media studies scholar based in Canada. I’m working on a project called The Data Fix through a series of conversations with scho...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/09/2026
The role of ChatGPT went far beyond providing tactical tips in the final hours before the mass shooting. The shooter messaged with ChatGPT more than 6,600 times over 12 months—including dozens of conversations revealing he was desperate, focused on extremist violence, and suicidal.
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Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In our new essay for the @financialtimes.com (you read that right), @astra.bsky.social and I link the extreme weather events we have all been living through to the rise of a new iteration of futureless fascism, wherein the rich and powerful plan for their bunkered survival behind fortressed borders.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Trust Control
Trust Control is a documentary podcast series about the weird yet surprisingly expansive world of trust measurement from investigative journalist and researcher Kate Kaye. Based on nearly a year of de...
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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Signed...there is no "responsible" AI industry
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Rory White @rorywh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New investigation from me. The 23 websites are designed to influence the answers that AI chatbots give to voters in Alberta, targeting farmers, young people, veterans, mothers and oil industry workers. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...
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A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots
The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.
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Jonathan Zeller @jonjzeller.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why...
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Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
“I didn’t think a full, six-day-per-week, fourteen-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the ‘generate’ button, foll...
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 05/09/2026
dragging the US into a shooting war with a nuclear armed power to protect OpenAI’s profitability is certainty a hot take
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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I Know What You Need
Moments when it seems obvious what to do for someone else, so of course you jump in and try to help — and what happens after that.  Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium…
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Ryan McGrady @antisomniac.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"[OpenAI] built a model, took the safeguards off, gave it the ExploitGym task, let it run, and didn't even monitor it. That's *human* decision-making." mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-... @eryk.bsky.social
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Models Don't Go Rogue
Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Three California college students had to be rescued from Mount Shasta on Monday during a poorly planned summit climb in which they overshot their itinerary, meandered off-route and ran out of food and water." Must've been a bad intro to prompt engineering class www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
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Climbers rescued from Mount Shasta after relying on AI chatbot to plan trip
Hikers using AI chatbots to navigate Mount Shasta have gotten lost and confused. In one instance this week, a group of climbers relying on them to plan their trip had to be rescued.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I read the sf chronicles article on the hikers who got stranded because they used AI and it mentioned they were college students and I spent too much time think about whether their college(s) have any AI use policies
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
makes sense to me when people say they hate ai but also use it -- it's an easy surrender for which consequences won't be felt for awhile, esp for undergrads i think also makes sense to me that people don't want data centers to enable more of this
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@zgtcooper.bsky.social this reminds me so much of your story about being in a metaverse-like space and having that guy just screaming the entire time
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 05/09/2026
they're all just huffing the farts of their own madness the next 12 months of US AI policy is going to be bipartisan xenophobic incoherence
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Former Obama Admin Official Says It's Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI
A new report by a former Obama-era national security advisor calls for the US to begin preparing drills in response to China's AI development.
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