From the news on: society [Note: Content Warning - links to reports on bigotry/hate, violence/abuse. Reader discretion is advised]

Note: CONTENT WARNING - some of this content is about upsetting, disturbing or triggering events & attitudes. Seek competent help - including professional - if you need it. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that linked articles may contains names and/or images of deceased people. READER CAUTION IS RECOMMENDED! For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/. 

From the news on society: 

• “Are you being manipulated or just a victim of all the propaganda?”   https://theaimn.com/are-you-being-manipulated-or-just-a-victim-of-all-the-propaganda/   

• “Is Australia in the grips of a youth crime crisis? This is what the data says”   https://theconversation.com/is-australia-in-the-grips-of-a-youth-crime-crisis-this-is-what-the-data-says-213655   
  

• “Michael Johnson, The MAGA Right, Intense Cultural Wars and the Potentially Perilous Future of Democracy!”   https://medium.com/the-polis/michael-johnson-the-maga-right-intense-cultural-wars-and-the-potentially-perilous-future-of-050617919771    

• “When Andrew Tate and the online manboys obsess over a ‘bodycount’, girls, you know what to do”   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/03/when-andrew-tate-and-the-online-manboys-obsess-over-a-bodycount-girls-you-know-what-to-do   
  

• “Voice Crash Investigation: Trans-generational trauma”   https://theaimn.com/voice-crash-investigation-transgender-trauma/  

• “UK, US, EU and China sign declaration of AI’s ‘catastrophic’ danger”   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/01/uk-us-eu-and-china-sign-declaration-of-ais-catastrophic-danger   and   “Can a dual mandate be a model for the global governance of AI? | Nature Reviews Physics”   https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-023-00670-4.pdf   and, on AI in Africa:   https://africacenter.org/programs/2023-09-artificial-intelligence/   and   “At UK’s AI Summit, Guterres says risks outweigh rewards without global oversight”   https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143147   and   “Preventing an AI-related catastrophe”   https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/artificial-intelligence/   “AI might bring huge benefits — if we avoid the risks”  and   “Time to Act: Building the Technical and Institutional Foundations for AI Assurance”   https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/time-to-act-building-the-technical-and-institutional-foundations-for-ai-assurance   and   “The world’s week on AI safety: powerful computing efforts launched to boost research”   https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03472-x  
  

 

Assumptions / basis 

In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following: 

• this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

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