If you were planning a vacation to Paris, you might want to push it off a couple of weeks. That is unless you don’t think your ski mask is going to get much use this winter because of the Super El Niño. Then take it with you, put it on, and try not to get arrested.

In other news, there’s been some ongoing debate of whether rogue AI can be held responsible for escaping its sandbox and hacking systems. It’s a fun question. One side argues that there’s no intent while the other side argues that you created the system - you’re responsible for it.

A simple explanation is that an owner is responsible for a dog that attacks a child. The contra-argument is that the oil majors have yet to be held responsible for climate change after they knew the damage they were creating.

My bet is that the tech companies convince the Supreme Court to do another Citizens United-equivalent and the LLMs end up with personhood, which ultimately shields their creators from responsibility.