Plans by Trump's fascist tech bros as well as Putin and Xi to build AI-run nuclear reactors on the Moon open jurisdictional dilemmas [18] that far outpace the modest UN efforts to put a regulation regime [19] in place for artificial intelligence. These plans are unveiled just as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists [20] moves the symbolic hands of the Doomsday Clock to an unprecedented 85 seconds to midnight [21]. The new Doomsday Clock Statement [22] explicitly names AI as a potential threat to human survival. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons [23], in conjunction with the Doomsday Clock move, reiterated [24] its position that "we must move beynd managing nuclear weapons and start phasing them out before midnight strikes." In Episode 316 of the CounterVortex podcast [25], Bill Weinberg argues that we must take a similar abolitionist position [26] on AI and space expansionism [27], citing unacceptable threats on ecological [28], epistemological [29] and eschatological [30] grounds.
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