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Monday February 9
AI terror
“The article on the AI afterlife was great, and another potential issue sprung to mind. What if the person being ‘preserved’ held extreme views, and encouraged loved ones to carry out violent acts? What if they were unbelievably selfish, and encouraged the bereaved to kill themselves and join them in the afterlife? What if a malicious actor injects code that gets the bot to subtly encourage other criminal behaviour, or turns the bot into a highly personalised phishing scam that ends with the bereaved transferring large sums of money into a scammer’s bank account, or something else? The possibilities are endless and terrifying.”
Charlotte Somers
Decisions we make
“Hopefully, the rest of Australia will not follow New South Wales in ditching the good character reference before court sentencing. The reference is the last legal recognition that humans are not perfect; there are absolutely no bad or good persons walking the Earth, only people committing bad or good acts, for whatever reasons.”
Ang Ung 
Thinning forests
“Regarding the article on mountain ash forests, isn’t it amazing that forests managed to survive for millennia before humans came along to help them?”
Peter Tuft
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