8 Peter Thiel is using biblical prophecy to argue against AI regulation
His new “Antichrist” lecture casts AI safety as a threat to freedom. (Politico)
9 MIT’s Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11, has died
She led the team that programmed Apollo’s onboard computers. (BBC)
+ And became a software pioneer in a male-dominated field. (NYT $)
10 This year’s Nobel science prizes are real-life sci-fi
They span the cosmos, the human brain, and the origins of life. (Economist $)
Quote of the day
“The White House considers anyone that uses the term, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, ‘Super Intelligence,’ THE ENEMY!”
—President Donald Trump adds an ominous threat to his AI rebranding strategy in a post on Truth Social, Axios reports.
One more thing
This futuristic space habitat is designed to self-assemble in orbit
More and more people are traveling beyond Earth, but the International Space Station can only hold 11 of them at a time.
Aurelia Institute, an architecture R&D lab based in Cambridge, MA, is building a solution: a habitat that launches in compact stacks of flat tiles—and self-assembles in orbit.