Plus: the Pentagon has tapped Elon Musk to co-lead a future warfare project. An AI "mind-reading" tool can reconstruct what you're looking at based on a brain scan A new AI tool can guess what you're looking at just by analyzing your brain scans--and recreate that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way too, and predict a person's brain activity based on what they're looking at. The researchers hope the "mindreading" tool could reveal more about how the brain works. It could also help locked-in people communicate and, incredibly, maybe even allow scientists to recreate the content of dreams. But other scientists warn that a similar approach could reveal people's inner thoughts and mental imagery, potentially without their consent.

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In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn't even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events. We've been hearing a great deal recently about the specter of AI-driven human extinction . Maybe our misplaced trust in AI intelligence will set off World War III . Or AI agents will unleash widespread cyberattacks and take over the internet. Given too much autonomy, the machines will run amok. They may seek to deceive their creators--wait, that's already happened . Suppose they conclude, like Agent Smith in, that "human beings are a plague, and we are the cure." Or perhaps the chatbots help bad humans unleash a literal plague--a biological weapon .

The practice of editing the genes of embryos remains highly controversial and risky, but Origin Genomics founder Cathy Tie argues its a "moral imperative" to address hereditary diseases. When the Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced in 2018 that he had created the first gene-edited babies, the experiment was widely condemned as reckless and premature. It ended with He in prison. But that hasn't stopped the push for gene-edited human embryos, with biotech entrepreneur Cathy Tie arguing that doing so isn't just urgent--it's a "moral imperative." Tie is the 30-year-old founder of Origin Genomics, a company that launched in March with plans to bring gene-edited embryos to IVF clinics.

Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. "The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live," says one expert. Tech executives have long touted the potential for their AI models to accelerate the pace of biology discoveries. Last week, they announced one.

Chemistry and first-person sources are joining forces to date eruptions. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The archaeological site of Oplontis is one of the wonders returned after the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD together with the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Two-thousand years ago, a Roman author and lawyer named Pliny the Younger wrote an account of one of the most destructive disasters in human history. He chronicled Mount Vesuvius' eruption and the subsequent burial of Pompeii, which killed his uncle Pliny the Elder and about 2,000 others.

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Plus: hackers claim they've stolen data on almost all FBI employees. When Shubnam saw an Instagram video of a Delhi protest they had attended, they realized a content creator wearing Meta smart glasses had recorded them surreptitiously. The mocking reel drew millions of views, along with transphobic abuse and AI-generated memes. Experts warn that many others will experience similar ordeals as smart glasses go mainstream. The risks are particularly acute in India, where covert recording and the circulation of images without consent are already pervasive. The bigger issue is that the smart glasses aren't just being used to turn ordinary people into targets of viral "pranks."

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