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MOLOCH | Official Teaser Trailer HD | When AI Replaces Us All

MOLOCH — Premiering 29 September on Omeleto.

Subscribe so you don’t miss it: / @omeleto.

As the technology she built rips her family apart and triggers worldwide job loss, an AI engineer battles spiritual forces — and the CEO of her own company — to pull the plug.

Everyone sees the danger. No one can afford to stop.

Starring Fiona Hampton, Parker Sawyers, David Buttle, and Buddy Wignall-Ho.
Written & directed by Tom Cozens.
An Owl In Space production in collaboration with the Future of Life Institute.

#Moloch #ShortFilm #SciFi #AI #AISafety #Superintelligence #Omeleto

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Insilico Medicine AI Drug Rentosertib Cuts Biological Age on Six Independent Protein Clocks

Didn’t say by how much unless I skimmed over it.

Not proven yet. The study found a coordinated shift in blood proteins associated with younger predicted biological age in treated IPF patients. It cannot prove the drug reversed the aging process itself, because all study participants had IPF — a disease that alters the very protein patterns the clocks are trained on. The critical next test, which Nobel laureate Michael Levitt explicitly named, is a trial in healthy volunteers without IPF. If the biological age signal persists in people without the disease confound, the case for systemic geroprotective activity becomes substantially stronger. The ongoing Phase III trial in IPF (320 patients, 47 centers in China) is designed to assess lung function, not aging per se — but its larger sample may provide additional proteomic data over a longer time horizon.

What makes rentosertib different from other longevity drugs like rapamycin or metformin?

Rapamycin, metformin, and the senolytic combination dasatinib plus quercetin are repurposed drugs: they were developed for other indications (organ transplant, diabetes, and cancer, respectively) and discovered through subsequent research to interact with aging-relevant pathways. None was designed with aging biology as the primary specification. Rentosertib was. Insilico’s AI platform scored TNIK — the drug’s molecular target — against the 12 hallmarks of aging framework, found it relevant to six hallmarks, and designed a molecule specifically to inhibit it. That makes rentosertib, if its geroprotective effects are confirmed in further studies, the first drug created from scratch specifically for the biology of aging to produce a clinical signal in humans.

AI Pioneer Andrew Ng Calls Extinction Fears ‘Science Fiction’

Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng said warnings about existential AI risks from researchers at top model makers are “science fiction” that may be detrimental to ensuring the technology’s maximum benefits to society.

Ng, who helped start Google Brain and Coursera Inc., said the tech industry previously stoked fears about the potential catastrophic harms of artificial intelligence earlier in the AI boom in an apparent bid to bolster publicity and shape regulation.

Two years ago, I went on the NoCode podcast and spent an hour telling builders the tools aren’t the point

JJ Englert and David Pal invited me on This Week in NoCode, expecting a conversation about #AI. They got one about character, culture, and who gets to decide the Why.

Somewhere in there I argued that the biggest project of our civilization is humanity itself, and that we keep pouring money into intelligence while starving wisdom. Two years, a few hundred billion in capex, and one full hype cycle later, I’d only say it louder.

There’s a stretch in the middle on self-regulation and #ethics that I’d rather you watch than have me paraphrase here.

The Future of Humanity and AI with Nikola Danaylov: A Deep Dive into Ethics, Culture, and Technology [ https://snglrty.co/49Sb8aE](https://snglrty.co/49Sb8aE)

Nikola Danaylov on the ethical and cultural challenges of AI, emphasizing the balance of human wisdom with technological advancements.

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Long AI conversations reveal misinformation vulnerabilities across seven leading chatbots

The results are in: Which AI model is the most fallible? Persuadable? Correctible? University of Arizona researchers assessed seven different generative AI large language models, or LLMs, for these three qualities during lengthy conversations. Their work, published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, reveals intrinsic limitations that might go undetected during one-off interactions.

Robotic lab sets up and runs optics experiments on demand

Every new generation of phone display, television screen and solar panel is the result of precision optics experiments, which use lasers and other light sources to measure the optical properties of candidate materials. These experiments can take months to run, requiring scientists to meticulously angle and adjust delicate light sources, mirrors, cameras and other components in a process of careful, constant tuning that can be physically tedious and time-consuming.

But MIT scientists say the whole process of building and running an optics experiment could one day be fully automated. Taking a step toward such a future, they have developed a reconfigurable robotic optics laboratory.

The new robotic lab autonomously assembles standard optical components into desired configurations. It can then tune the angle and position of mirrors and lenses with micron-scale precision to produce beams of light with specific properties. The system can also safely dismantle an experiment and reassemble the parts into an entirely new setup.

Critical Docker Sandboxes Flaw Lets Malicious Guest Code Read and Modify macOS Host Files

Docker Sandboxes runs each AI coding agent in its own small virtual machine with the project directory shared in. The code that could escape is whatever runs inside that machine, such as a coding agent that has been turned against its user, or anything malicious the agent installs and runs.

Docker has not reported any exploitation. CISA’s added assessment on the CVE record lists exploitation as none, and the flaw is not in CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as of the catalog version released on September 16.

The flaw needs malicious code inside the sandbox, and protecting the host from what an agent runs is what the sandbox is for. The agent installs packages and runs commands with sudo inside the virtual machine, and Docker’s isolation documentation says the hypervisor boundary “is the isolation control, not in-VM privilege separation.”

New RatHat Android malware uses AI to automate device control

A new Android malware called RatHat has been discovered, targeting users with an AI-powered subsystem that helps operators remotely navigate compromised devices.

Zimperium zLabs researchers analyzed the malware and believe it is linked to threat actors from China after finding it using LLM prompts written in Chinese.

The researchers say the malware is distributed through malvertising, SMS, and phishing sites promoting APK downloads from outside Google Play.

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