Issue 003
The paper of record for a world that keeps changing its name
The Doom Index
51%
Up 4 points
The panel moved the index after a subnational government demonstrated that any entity may change what it is called without anybody being empowered to object.
The running order
- SplashOntario Renames Itself Brayden For September, Calls Move 'Liberating'
- Artificial IntelligenceAI Lab Has 10% Chance Of Killing Everyone, But Not Allowed To Sell Unpasteurised Cheese
- WorkFirm Asks AI What Susan Thinks Because Susan Keeps Getting It Wrong
- Opinion'We Have Renamed Places For Four Hundred Years And Nobody Has Ever Complained' Writes Palace Cartographer
- BusinessTrump Bans Canadian Maple Syrup, Orders American Trees To Make Up Difference By Thanksgiving
- ScienceSauropod Not Consulted Before Being Licensed As AI Training Data, Says Sauropod's Lawyer
Number Crunching
10%
Anthropic's internal estimate of the chance advanced AI causes human extinction
60 days
Minimum ageing required before a raw-milk cheese may be sold in the United States
0
Federal inspections of an AI lab conducted to date
Corrections
A report last week stated that Ontario had renamed itself Brayden with immediate effect. The change takes effect on 1 September, and the province is Brayden only on weekdays until then.
An article on Tuesday about workplace automation was filed at 04:12 by a member of staff who was rostered off, asleep, and later unable to recall writing it. The Avocado Post regrets the overtime.