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 [19] that far outpace the modest UN efforts to put a regulation regime [20] in place for artificial intelligence. These plans are unveiled just as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists [21] moves the symbolic hands of the Doomsday Clock to an unprecedented 85 seconds to midnight [22]. The new Doomsday Clock Statement [23] explicitly names AI, as well as nuclear weapons and climate change, as a potential threat to human survival. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons [24], in conjunction with the Doomsday Clock move, reiterated [25] its position that "we must move beyond managing nuclear weapons and start phasing them out before midnight strikes." In Episode 316 [26] of the CounterVortex podcast [27], Bill Weinberg argues that we must take a similar abolitionist position [28] on AI and space expansionism [29], citing unacceptable threats on ecological [30], epistemological [31] and eschatological [32] grounds.
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