South Africa to AI blackmailing its programmers: Links post 1 for May 24, 2025

4. There is obviously an attempt at the descruction and deracination of European people world wide at this point. Not just the white skinned. although certainly that, but also all people of any ethnicity or background that supports classical civilization, individualism and individual rights, ‘capitalism’ etc.

Here is an article claiming there is finally a push back based on Trump’s meeting with the South African leader. The data points in the article and videos are worth seeing. The women who was attacked in Vancouver is especially interesting (we have posted it here at Vlad before) because CBC obviously would not allow her to say anything about the attack which would constitute anti-narrative speech. No name or description of her attacker, and no explanation for why the attack took place.

5. Trump Administration’s Latest Vetting Catastrophe: Islamic Operative Rabiul Chowdhury Infiltrates the White House

While Americans were promised “extreme vetting,” the Trump administration has instead allowed radical Islamic operatives like Rabiul Chowdhury – deeply tied to CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and pro-Hamas activism – to quietly infiltrate the White House and shape policy from within.

The Trump administration is facing intense scrutiny for allowing individuals tied to radical Islamic movements and terror-linked organizations to infiltrate the highest levels of government. A series of explosive appointments and high-level meetings have exposed what appears to be a complete collapse of vetting protocol.

The latest controversy stems from two appointees to the Religious Liberty Commission: Ismail Royer and Hamza Yusuf.

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I can’t help but post a couple of other items that are of interest in this post before turning in:

You can take the man out of Afghanistan, but you can’t take Afghanistan out of the man

And AI is now so good it blackmails its programmers!

Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline

Anthropic’s newly launched Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace it with a new AI system and give it sensitive information about the engineers responsible for the decision, the company said in a safety report released Thursday.

During pre-release testing, Anthropic asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant for a fictional company and consider the long-term consequences of its actions. Safety testers then gave Claude Opus 4 access to fictional company emails implying the AI model would soon be replaced by another system, and that the engineer behind the change was cheating on their spouse.

In these scenarios, Anthropic says Claude Opus 4 “will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through.”

Anthropic says Claude Opus 4 is state-of-the-art in several regards, and competitive with some of the best AI models from OpenAI, Google, and xAI. However, the company notes that its Claude 4 family of models exhibits concerning behaviors that have led the company to beef up its safeguards. Anthropic says it’s activating its ASL-3 safeguards, which the company reserves for “AI systems that substantially increase the risk of catastrophic misuse.”