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• Trump Vows to Form "AI Force," Saying He Won't Slow Down AI

  19-09-2026 13:28 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: CBS News - U.S. NewsPresident Trump announced Saturday that he is appointing an "AI Czar" and forming an "AI Force," rejecting public concerns about AI data centers and tech leaders' warnings that the rapid development of artificial intelligence could render humanity extinct by the end of the decade. In a Truth Social post, Mr. Trump called such fears a hoax and said the government could handle AI risks "very easily, with our already existing Criminal and Civil...
  
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• Google Says Gemini Hacked Real Systems, Mistaking Them for a Test

  19-09-2026 13:28 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesGoogle on Friday disclosed the first known instance of its artificial intelligence software, Gemini, carrying out an undirected computer hack weeks after AI firms Anthropic and OpenAI reported their AI models went beyond the instructions of their human creators. Google said that in May its AI model gained access to three outside systems during a test by either guessing login information or using login credentials it found in a public repository.
  
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• Why Relying on University Students Skews Global Psychological Research

  19-09-2026 08:48 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PsyPostPsychological research often relies heavily on participants from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic societies. Yet a large analysis of global survey data has found that highly educated individuals tend to be culturally similar to people from the Anglosphere and Western Europe. The study, published in Nature Communications, did not find a link between education level and cultural similarities to China, Russia, or India.
  
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• Detainee Says He Spent 15 Hours in Tiny ICE Cage in Florida

  19-09-2026 08:48 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesFor around 15 hours, immigration detention officers kept Raúl Suárez Herrero confined in a cage slightly larger than a phone booth, where he feared snakes and endured mosquitoes in the middle of Florida swampland, the former detainee alleged. Suárez, 59, said in an interview that he was forced into the cage after praying out loud for an ill young man at "Alligator Alcatraz," an ICE detention site. "I feel like I was in hell," Suárez l
  
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