SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR [1]. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, the billionaire private jet flight tracker.
A Billionaire Jet Flight Tracker to Warn of Possible Disasters
Jerome wrote to mention this at Business Insider: I vibe-coded a billionaire jet tracker to warn people about a possible apocalypse. Then the data started getting weir [2]d. Here is the link to the tracker page: Apocalypse Early Warning System [3].
Another Rogue Agentic AI
Over at USN&WR: Rogue AI Model Leads a Strange and Scary Week in AI [4]. Here is an excerpt:
“ChatGPT maker OpenAI revealed [5] this week that two artificial systems it was testing went rogue, gaining access to the internet from their supposedly isolated “sandbox” and hacking into another company.
In short, this was an AI model carrying out a cyberattack without human input. The targeted company, Hugging Face, provides open-source AI tools. It announced last week that it had been hacked but did not pin the attack on OpenAI. It did, however, say this week it had suspected a “frontier” AI model had carried out the sophisticated intrusion.”
Hidden Seismicity Patterns Before Large Earthquakes
Over at Phys.org: Hidden seismicity patterns before large earthquakes uncovered [6]. A quote from the article’s opening paragraphs:
“When and where the next large earthquake will strike remains one of the most difficult questions in geoscience. Researchers from the GFZ Helmholtz Center for Geosciences led by Dr. Sadegh Karimpouli and Prof. Dr. Patricia Martínez-Garzón have now—together with international partners—developed a new data-driven approach that can identify characteristic changes in seismic activity before some major earthquakes occur.
The team used unsupervised machine learning to detect previously hidden patterns in earthquake catalogs, without relying on predefined assumptions. They applied their method to several well-documented major earthquakes, including the Kahramanmaraş (Türkiye, 2023), Iquique (Chile, 2014) and L’Aquila (Italy, 2009) events, and were able to identify distinct patterns in the foreshock activity in these cases, which occurred weeks to months before the mainshock.”
A Societal Disintegration Study
At Facebook: Experts warn that collapse is the most likely future for human civilization [7].
Canada Suggests Live-Harvesting MAID Organs
As reported at Breibart: Canada: Doctors Propose Harvesting Organs from ‘MAID’ Euthanasia Victims While Still Alive [8].
AI Firms Scanning and Shredding Millions of Books
Futurism reports: AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale [9].
A Chinese AI Tool Exported for Repression
China’s again: Authoritarian governments are using AI to surveil citizens, control information, and silence dissent [10].
Will AI Design Viruses, Toxins and Other Bioweapons?
And in the journal Nature: AI can design viruses, toxins and other bioweapons. How worried should we be? [11]
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