› added 1 year ago

51

TIL AI scientists put a 1 in 6 chance that AI advances will lead to human extinction or similarly permanent and severe disempowerment of the human species

Read more aiimpacts.org

via reddit.com

x6lNw TIL Althea Gibson was appointed New Jersey's athletic commissioner in 1976. Gibson was the first woman in the country to hold such a position but resigned after one year due to a lack of autonomy in her role stating she did not wish to simply be a figurehead.
RYW7 TIL that in 1939, Maine Rep. Cleveland Sleeper introduced a bill to make it illegal to add tomatoes to clam chowder.
gBGL TIL African buffalo herds display “voting behavior” to indicate their travel preferences by standing up, staring in one direction and then lying back down. Only adult females vote.
6EJ1m TIL That Jack in The Box created a fake boy band called the Meaty Cheese Boys because NSYNC had a CD promo with McDonald’s and Back Street Boys had it with Burger King.
QNnvE TIL that Sylvester Graham (of Graham Cracker fame), the original clean-eating guru and vegetarian pioneer who shunned alcohol, lust, meat, and even white bread, died at age 57 of complications from an opium enema