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Engineer who warned about AI: | CNN Business (CNN)

Blake Lemoine, the software engineer fired by Google after warning that AI seemed conscious, says its misbehavior is a "runaway train" of "dangerous ...

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The US says it saved 25 million lives – and most people don't know it (CNN)

Former President George W. Bush made a rare appearance in Washington, DC, on Friday -- gathering some big names from his administration, a key political ...

Keeping the big picture in mind and making sacrifices for things that you thought were the most important things for the greater good was what was necessary. The United States is very good about responding to catastrophe and conflict. If you’re an advocate like Bono or the ONE Campaign or many others, do you wonder, am I giving cover to someone you don’t agree with on a whole host of things. Rooted in the biblical notion that every 50 years should be a year of jubilee, when land is allowed to lie fallow, slaves were freed and debts were forgiven. Is it a perfect piece of legislation? There is not, at the moment, that goal to eradicate it completely, like smallpox or the work that’s going on with polio. I’m sure to a lot of people it seemed kind of crazy back then. And interestingly, some of the infrastructure, the lab services and health care training and other medical investments through PEPFAR over the last 20 years were used in some of the Covid response. HART: PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, is the US bilateral program to provide care treatment and prevention for people suffering from HIV. Michael McCaul of Texas, is a major backer of the program. The ONE Campaign was co-founded by Bono and aims “to end extreme poverty and preventable disease by 2030,” according to its website. They’re all hoping the US reups on PEPFAR, which costs a relative pittance in US government tax dollar terms – $7 billion in 2022 and more than $110 billion total over 20 years – but has saved so many people.

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A divided political landscape spells changes for CNN (Independent.ie)

There are two things that many international holidaymakers and business travellers could count on in the 1980s and 1990s: a Gideon Bible in the bed-side ...

When CNN was launched back in 1980, he recorded a “Doomsday” video that clearly set out the longevity of his ambition. A lot has changed since the early days of CNN and its position in a competitive but dwindling cable news market has fluctuated in recent years. How CNN will deal with all of these challenges and evolves, remains to be seen. It was founded by Ted Turner, the son of a billboard advertising magnate from Atlanta who acquired the family business in his 20s. ith a worldwide audience of over two billion people in 215 countries, CNN still remains one of the biggest and most influential news channels in the world. From Bangkok to Berlin and from Caracas to Cairo, the 24-hour rolling news channel could always be relied upon to provide a window to the world no matter where one was hiding out.

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How '15-minute cities' turned into an international conspiracy theory (CNN)

A pedestrian area part of the "superblock" plan promoting cycling and car-free zones in Barcelona, Spain. Josep Lago/AFP/Getty Images.

The idea that idiot tyrannical bureaucrats can decide by fiat where you’re ‘allowed’ to drive is perhaps the worst imaginable perversion of that idea.” Governments, both local and national, may find it very hard to implement any policies that even touch on the climate crisis, she warned. “And that has been weaponized by a vast ecosystem of bad actors.” Yet “disinformation is opportunistic,” especially when it comes to climate, King said. The city has banned cars from parts of the Seine, added hundreds of miles of cycling routes and created mini parks. But it misinterprets the idea, he said. The pandemic left millions with genuine trauma and real concerns about government overreach, King said. Around a fifth of the world’s human-caused, planet-warming pollution [thousands of people](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-64689171), many from outside the area, took to the streets of Oxford to protest the traffic filtering and 15-minute city proposals. Many were from outside the UK. [proposed 15-minute neighborhoods](https://engage.ottawa.ca/the-new-official-plan/news_feed/15-minute-neighbourhoods), Melbourne in Australia plans to adopt [20-minute neighborhoods](https://www.planmelbourne.vic.gov.au/current-projects/20-minute-neighbourhoods) and Barcelona, in Spain, has been implementing a car-free “superblocks” strategy. Oxford has become a flashpoint, in part, because its traffic filtering plan has been conflated with a separate proposal in the city to create “15-minute cities,” the main focus of the conspiracy theorists’ ire.

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