if the whole thing was scripted without any real AI action taking place, to promote a product that wasn't yet running or ready for prime time.

Oh sweet summer child! Of course, scripted, every time.

with officials increasingly pointing to Russia as the likely culprit.

Just in time to sabotage any peace deal in Ukraine. Next thing, the Russians will blow up their own gas pipelines, again.

Does this mean that they will use AI to address their growing list of vulnerabilities? : https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cve.org%2FCVERecord%2F...
Does this mean that they'll significantly cut back their number of H-1B filings as well? : https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myvisajobs.com%2Femp....

"but I see no reason why a future computer program should not be."

Other than the philosophical impediments to computational consciousness (see Searle's Chinese Room), which Dawkins must surely know about.

There's nothing to suggest that these people will be approached with any claims directly.

The true purpose is intimidation.

Funny how Haitians were the first thing that came to your mind. Racists are going to racist.

It should have been a Nintendo AI alarm clock that uses an LM to select from a variety of classic Nintendo sountracks to rouse you from your sleep.

Joining other progressive luminaries like Dick Warmonger Cheney.
The Democratic party has become the extreme right wing of the Republican party.

Apple could always cross-promote their new phones with a triple bacon cheeseburger from Wendy's.

Vegan Triple iBurger Max Pro. Know your demo.

Will sell your apnea data to the insurance cartels.

1 - Threaten company with DOJ charges
2 - Congressional hearings ensue
3 - Politicians from both parties buy the dip
4 - Company cleared, nothing to see here, LOL!!!
5 - Politicians dump at new ATH

TT is subject to banning because we don't want the Chinese government having access to American user's information. All TT has to do is spin off the American portion and everything will act as normal. This has nothing to do with what is being posted on TT.

It has everything to do with what was posted on TT.

It has been voiced in the open that TT was causing public opinion to sway against Bibi's extremist right wing government for the genocide it is carrying out in Gaza, and how banning TT would shutdown that sentiment.

Read about Mitt Romney's exchange with Blinken at The Sedona Forum back in May of this year.

Mike Lawler, co sponsor of the bill to ban TT, openly decries that TT serves as a platform to agitate pro Palestine protests at US colleges.

The race for the sensationalist media to report it starts now:

Wow! Signal Caused by Extra Terrestrial Hydrogen!
Did an Alien civilization encode a message using a mysterious H1 gas cloud?
Scientists reveal rare spatial alignment coincided with detection of Alien Signal!

Remember, we live in a meritocracy and these are the smartest guys in the room.
The reality is that the professional-managerial class and the financial class are most often inept and dominate through corruption, influence and government capture.

it will likely bring audience scores lower, close to critic scores

Most reviews by critics are comically shill pieces paid for by the studios. It is not uncommon for critics' ratings to be absurdly high while the audience ratings are ridiculously low.

Also, no, no regular people will be buying more tickets through Fandango just to post a review to Rotten Tomatoes. As already pointed by other comments above, all that will happen is that studios will buy their own tickets to post more fake reviews and inflate their garbage films' audience ratings.