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Alison 🇨🇦

@n8rnerd.bsky.social
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Consulting Ecologist with a focus on Species at Risk and Impact Assessment/Mitigation, working with bioacoustics and camera trapping. Enjoy iNaturalist, baking, board games, hockey, & reading. Parront 🦜 😷 Based in #HamOnt. She/her.

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 11h
Fantastic that the government plans to increase tree cover But trees live a long time, and our climate will be very different by the time they mature So do we plant species thriving here now, or species that will thrive in future conditions? It's not a simple question, but we should be asking it!
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As the world gets hotter, could helping trees migrate northwards protect them?
With the climate changing, many species are marching towards cooler climes – but trees are being outpaced. Some ecologists say assisted movement is the answer
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 10h
www.cbc.ca/radio/unrese...
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Now that you know the truth, what do you do about reconciliation? | CBC Radio
Fear of making a misstep can leave people unsure how to participate in reconciliation, but both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people say there are countless ways to contribute.
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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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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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 28/09/2026
A Canadian scientist says Mark Carney's government is subsidizing the destruction of nature, contravening Canada's global biodiversity commitments. @sarahkcox.bsky.social reports. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Carney’s Push to Fund Industry Imperils Canada’s Nature Promises | The Tyee
Canada participated in a ‘historic’ global moment for biodiversity. Experts say we’re not following through.
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Might need to make this... www.cbc.ca/life/greatca...
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The Nanaimo bar gets a decadent cheesecake makeover | CBC Life
Here’s your sneak peek of the Technical Bake for the Season 10 premiere of The Great Canadian Baking Show.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was released on this day 62 years ago. I have a first edition & come back to it often, including this paragraph in the chapter "Obligation to Endure." It's worth reading. "We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts."
Cover of Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonThe last paragraph in the Silent Spring chapter Obligation to Endure, reads, in part, " We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts... The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know."
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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Look at this absurdly well-behaved collie I met today. Looks like a book jacket author photo.
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gift link: www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Gift-redeem
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Very cool to see the Canadian National Men's team play Chile at BMO Field in Toronto tonight - and win! They put on an excellent performance and kept up the energy all game.
The view facing west near centre field at BMO Field in Toronto. Canada is on the left and Chile on the right. The sky in the background has an array of colours at sunset.
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Excited to see news coverage of PWHL Hamilton ramping up. I really can't wait for the team name, logo and schedule to be revealed! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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PWHL Hamilton players look forward to puck drop and getting to know their new city | CBC News
Zoe Boyd, Brianne Jenner and Kayla Vespa will be among the first women to work as professional athletes in Hamilton, and they know how much that means to their fans — especially for girls who can now ...
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For anyone else who wanted to go to the Walrus Talks event last night but couldn't, here's the video. "What the rise of the super rich means for democracy, affordability, and Canada’s future" Speakers included @davidmoscrop.com, @rwasserman.bsky.social, & @rileyyesnomaybe.bsky.social.
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The Walrus Talks The Billionaire Problem
YouTube video by The Walrus
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 24/09/2026
🪓 Our MPs are back in Ottawa, and before the first day was even done, environmental rollbacks and attacks on labour were already on the agenda. 🧵 #GreenSky #Canada
Background photo of an old growth forest with a cartoon of a bulldozer going across it. “PARLIAMENT IS BACK:
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ARE ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK. The Bulldozing Nature Bill is here. Here is what they don't want you to know.” Arrow icon in bottom right corner.
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I spotted this Eastern Gartersnake today moving among some of the new native plants I installed this year. It's so gratifying to find one of my favourite animals in the habitat I'm creating!
An Eastern Gartersnake moving across the mulch between native Ontario plants such as giant sunflower and closed bottle gentian.
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Corey Callaghan @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Do you use #iNaturalist data in research—or advise students who do? We put together a practical guide to using iNaturalist data in scientific research, covering how to access, acquire, analyze, and attribute the data, with examples in R and Python. Paper: doi.org/10.1093/bios... #ecology
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They definitely captured the early '00s sound 🤣 music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Songs to Listen to in a Wendy’s Parking Lot
EP • Wendy's
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Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca · 23/09/2026
Now on TPR: The full transcript (all 17,000 words) of today's first Hamilton mayoral debate. Every statement is linked to the YouTube recording to make it easy for you to see the parts which interest you most. #yhmvote #HamOnt #yhmcc thepublicrecord.ca/2026/09/hami...
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HamiltonVotes 2026: Full Transcript and Recording of the First Mayoral Debate between Cooper, Loomis, and Horwath
Full transcript, with YouTube video and timestamp links, of Hamilton's first mayoral debate of the 2026 municipal election.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The environment can take another one for the team! We can always restore labour rights in the future once everything is better! I’m so tired.
Identity blacked out because I don’t think it’s worth piling on a normal BlueSky user. But it’s typical of a lot of what I’m seeing lately. 

“I don't like any of these measures. But I guess dire times require dire decisions. Canada is in a fight for survival, and I can see that Carney is doing everything he can to make sure we survive. Once we are on the path to stability, the country can reestablish environmental and labour laws.”
5:38 PM • Sep 22, 2026
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I know Canadians want to feel safe. I get it. But imagine if any other prime minister kept introducing laws that said "I and my minister get to decide what laws apply, when, and we get to unilaterally and retroactively remove conditions on multi-billion-dollar projects."
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Actually this 👇
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Women knew it. Research proved it. 😉 "The answers were unambiguous: self-centred men who are argumentative, stubborn, disagreeable and unempathetic are much more likely to own a high-status car such as an Audi, BMW or Mercedes."
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The fast and the furious: Research shows that owners of high-status cars are on a collision course with traffic | University of Helsinki
Why do BMW and Audi owners often seem to drive like idiots? Is it the car that makes them behave aggressively behind the wheel, or are specific types of people drawn to such cars as well being more li...
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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Turns out Carney is quite the soul-less monster.
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
*looks wistfully westward* #onpoli
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Always nice to see some good news, although anything that may come out of this is still way down the road and doesn't mean the government will take any good action. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney government dealt an early blow in climate litigation | CBC News
A federal court refused to strike down a climate lawsuit brought against the Carney government by Canadian youth.
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A single cut cable does this, and Canada wants to work towards having virtual/off-site air traffic controllers? www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
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Some flights resume after ground stops at major U.S. airports, including New York's JFK and ‌LaGuardia | CBC News
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said flights were starting to resume at some busy East Coast airports after an accidentally cut cable forced a ground stop in New York, Philadelphia and ...
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Camped at Sauble Falls PP this weekend with friends. Yesterday we hiked the Bruce Trail at Devil's Monument and visited Tobermory. Such a great way to end summer!
View looking north along the Bruce Trail at the edge of Georgian Bay.View looking south from the Bruce Trail along Georgian BaySauble Falls with relatively low water levels
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Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This week’s half hour “What On Earth” show is about why climate seems to have dropped off the list of Canadians’ priority concerns. Lots of possible explanations, except for the elephant in the room: media’s failure to cover the fossil fuel-burning-caused climate crisis adequately or often enough.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
GUYS a Nashville warbler just hopped up to me and decided to use my legs as shelter to fall asleep under 😭🪶🌿
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 17/09/2026
"researchers having to read scientific literature" is not a problem that needs solving
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We need to increase scientific literacy and understanding, not reduce it with bad LLM summaries. In my line of work the biggest challenge is finding and accessing literature to begin with and putting it to use alongside policy for impact assessments and developing effective mitigation measures.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 17/09/2026
speaking as a science journalist who is also a trained physicist, this is the FUCKING WORST POSSIBLE THING. This is the opposite of trustworthy. You can't trust a damn thing an "AI agent" tells you. An article needs to be unchanged between queries, or any change needs to be documented clearly.
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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BRI’s early results have indicated the presence of 3 different bat species (hoary, silver-haired, eastern red), with some detections 100+ miles offshore!🦑🦊🔊 you can read more about GoMBat here: briwildlife.org/gulf-of-main...
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Gulf of Maine Bat Acoustics - Biodiversity Research Institute - Innovative Wildlife Science Worldwide | Portland, ME USA
On this page: Introduction | The Goal | Our Approach |2024 Findings | Partnerships | Funding Support
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Norwegian Consumer Council has made a new ad to consumers about Enshittification. Death has joined the chat.
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The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/
A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I found a Platinum record for @raffic.bsky.social's Baby Beluga in Hamilton! #HamOnt #Music #BelugaGrad
The platinum version of the Baby Beluga record by Raffi, certified platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association and presented to Grant Avenue Studio to commemorate the sale of over 100,000 units of the album.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library.
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Jun Otsuka @junotk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just got a physical copy of Pim Edelaar's new book, the Selective Organism: and Expanded Theory of Adaptive Evolution. This is a truly wonderful book, applying causal methods to real eco-evo problems. And better yet, it is freely available: academic.oup.com/book/63165 Congrats, Pim!
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The Selective Organism: An Expanded Theory of Adaptive Evolution
Abstract. Adaptive evolution is often described as natural selection acting on the genetic variation that affects ecological performance. This description
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Find joy in the common things 🐝🌼 💚 This Common Eastern Bumble Bee was foraging among my wildflowers today and I was able to capture this moment as it stopped at a New England Aster blossom.
A Common Eastern Bumble Bee in profile, sipping nectar from the vibrant purple blossom of a New England Aster, with more blossoms in the foreground. The background is green from the leaves of Common Milkweed.
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The documentary, How To Live on Earth, will be available on YouTube on September 20th.
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We're back from our hiatus with a new logo, newsletter, website, and even a new color palette! AND a fresh story by fearless editor @judeisabella.bsky.social! We hope you'll check us out, share with your friends, and consider supporting independent journalism about biodiversity & conservation 🧪
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 15/09/2026
Canada Investment Summit attendees enter raffle to win PEI

 www.thebeaverton.com/2026/09/cana...
Prime Minister Mark Carney at the Canada Investment Summit, offering attendees “$2 per ticket, or $10 for an arm’s length to take home Canada’s most adorable province!”
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"He is selling our public resources without any guaranteed returns and at the same time growing industries that will push the world towards greater war and climate catastrophe." "These billionaires make decisions behind closed doors in our city to decide our futures. Our future is not for sale"
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm glad the farmers are speaking up too. The OLT's decision is an affront to our democratic processes. #HamOnt #OnPoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Farmers urge province to rethink Hamilton urban boundary expansion | CBC News
Ontario's largest farm organization and Hamilton-based farmers are calling on the province to reconsider an Ontario Land Tribunal ruling that will open about 1,600 hectares of land around Hamilton to ...
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
After working hard to get rid of our non-native and invasive ground cover, I added 10 more species to the front & back yards this weekend. I'm most excited about the sweetgrass and little bluestem. I hope they spread & propagate so I can put them in some other places too. #gardening #NativePlants
A mulched area containing full sun and moist soil-loving plants native to Ontario, including bright yellow giant sunflowers at the back and sweetgrass at the front.A mulched area containing full sun and drier soil-loving plants native to Ontario including compass plant, wild bergamot, sweet oxeye, pale coneflower, and little bluestem.
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ? Answer this quick 5-min survey: 👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚 Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏 🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴
Flyer for the BIODIFUL Soundscapes survey. Text reads: 'Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica? Please answer our online questionnaire: Voices of the Tropical Forest.' Photo of a lush tropical forest interior, overlaid with a translucent ear icon surrounded by sound waves. Text continues: 'This anonymous survey will take only 10 min. https://www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en.' Logos at the bottom: BIODIFUL, ETH Zürich, CNRS, and Station d'Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale
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Sam Harper @sharper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I thought I was anti AI before, but I'm reading a preview copy of the upcoming book Hyperscale by @parismarx.com and "anti" isn't a strong enough word. The social, political and environmental cost of generative AI is staggering.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"The concern is that AI technology is advancing so quickly, the world could see systems within the next few years — or even months — "that could be so capable that we would no longer be able to detect them or stop them."" www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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Breaking down the dire warnings about AI's risks to humanity — and what experts says should be done about it | CBC News
A dire warning from an outgoing researcher at Anthropic that AI could "kill all humans" by the end of the decade led to public outcry over the dangers posed by the technology's rapid development. It's...
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