Scientists, not to mention digital ethics experts, are warning that OpenAI may still be up to no good. Apparently it is being run by a dangerous man whose continuous intentional deceptions now pose a direct threat to democracy.

Here, a scientist who appeared with Altman before the US Senate on AI safety flags up the danger in AI – and in Altman himself.

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We simply can’t trust giant, privately held AI startups to govern themselves in ethical and transparent ways. And if we can’t trust them to govern themselves, we certainly shouldn’t let them govern the world.

That’s a general statement, yet also specific in using terms like “giant” and “private” and “startup”. Not many giants are startups. Not many giants are private. A giant private startup means… there’s a specific group of billionaires using loopholes to pollute power.

Organized crime unaccountably masquerading as industry comes to mind, but perhaps that’s because I read too much American history.

This article in the Guardian reminds me very much of well-heeled malware campaigns, let alone the Teapot Dome Scandal.

Preeminent among the many difficult questions facing [corruption investigators] was, “How did Interior Secretary Albert Fall get so rich so quickly?”

In many ways OpenAI is framed as far too heavily corrupted; invasive and pervasive like a rich man’s robotic worm trying to take over systems and affect data integrity inside the largest private and public institutions… to get rich quickly.

CISOs should already have been thinking of how they will detect OpenAI and prevent the scandalous system from infecting their operations.

Who is ready to tell their board they are completely free of OpenAI? Did they successfully kick out Palantir or Oracle yet?

The warnings are only getting louder on OpenAI, as many very bad private unaccountable practices and deceptions are just being uncovered.

What’s the alternative? The Guardian piece mentions that too.

To get to an AI we can trust, I have long lobbied for a cross-national effort, similar to Cern’s high-energy physics consortium. The time for that is now. Such an effort, focused on AI safety and reliability rather than profit, and on developing a new set of AI techniques that belong to humanity – rather than to just a handful of greedy companies – could be transformative.

Take that to your board, your representatives, your friends. And if you need technical guidance, look at the Solid protocol.

The clever hacker at dontvacuum.me (Dennis Giese) has posted a convenient list of robot vacuums with a column for ease of gaining “root” privileges.

Of the 78 models listed, I noted 46 are classified as “easy”, and 66 give a publicly available method.

Multiple news outlets are confirming that Tesla has a dangerous hood problem.

The hood:

But seriously, the known racist car company run by an obvious white supremacist claims least 1.85m vehicles are in the new recall notice… just months after 2m vehicles were recalled.

Tesla is notorious for its very poor manufacturing quality, allegedly generating far more recalls, complaints and defect issues than any other vehicle maker in history… getting notably worse with each new model.

Related, Elon Musk’s new staff uniforms at X are thrown together from old sheets and typically not well made.

The auctions on Bring a Trailer show an unmistakable trend down, and fast.

To put this simply, as any good analyst should, Tesla value crashes and sucks down owners with it.

One privileged wealthy individual dealing with one horrible vehicle is typically not an issue, because if they choose to flush money down the drain it may not affect them.

However for the general public, without such largess and waste possibilities, Tesla is a financial and safety disaster leading to bankruptcy.

And for a corporation betting big on Tesla, investing enough in the brand to impact their bottom line, bankruptcy also may follow.

Take Hertz for example, the world leader in car operations management and maintenance. It has floundered seriously lately just because of bringing Tesla into the rental fleet. When the biggest and highest levels of car operation expertise can not make this brand viable, all the related robotaxi promises by Tesla are obviously nothing but dangerous fraud.

Remember, Tesla infamously made new owners sign an NDA. Faith and fiction are emphasized over fact finding to delay accountability.

Tesla owners who bring their new vehicle to the shop several times a month for repairs unrelated to normal wear and tear are really just targeted prey at this point, not actually customers.

Cybertruck owners are ignorantly dragging down themselves and others into serious debt, like advance fee fraud victims. America should be faster at prosecuting Tesla for this fraud to prevent spread of harms; reduce market fallout risks from allowing too many victims.