Yeah this seems like nonsense, but I’m guessing it’s intended more as a show of the desire for stronger regulation, the way they frame it as a stopgap until the higher levels of government come up with something more coherent.

Then again, given they’re apparently using “superintelligence” unironically, it could be they’re just a bunch of spooked Skynet doomers.

It actually seems like a reasonable (and unsurprising) take. Obviously if something is conscious, it should have rights.

That’s separate from whether current AI models have consciousness, or even the potential for consciousness, which they don’t, and that’s essentially what Suleyman is saying.

You can argue that the fact that he’s lending any credence at all to the idea is itself hype, but – loathe as I am to credit Microsoft – it seems like they’re really not on this particular train, and he’s just working within the Overton window that’s been set up by Anthropic and OpenAI’s complete disregard for truth and sanity.

New account, two sloppy text posts and a slop profile picture. Account with the same name exists on the AndroidCentral forums, also new, also talks like an unsocialised child raised in the basement of an adtech firm. Someone’s instructed it to misspell “alot”, that’s cute.

https://techcortado.com/disclaimer.html claims the posts are “written with help from AI tools, then checked and edited before they go up”. I wonder if there’s not a very deliberate omission of “by a human” in there.

I’m not arguing against your username, but this article is about an Israeli malware campaign using ad bids to specifically target itself towards Starlink users. There’s nothing about Starlink itself being complicit.

I’d think if Starlink wanted to surveil their users (they probably do) they could find a more direct route than this (they probably have).