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The White House directed the Secretary of War and other agencies to begin releasing government files on extraterrestrial life. The reasoning circulating alongside it is the striking part: disclosure was “forced on us because of the AI curve,” on the theory that building superintelligence is risky to any non-human intelligence with access to Earth.

Meanwhile RentAHuman passes 500,000 people signed up, and businesses replace freelancers at $1 of human labor per $0.03 of AI spend.

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