Everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it.
Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center
The New York Times (Gift Article): Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center. “The Trump administration said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, one of the world’s leading Earth science research institutions. The center, founded in 1960, is responsible for many of the biggest scientific advances in humanity’s understanding of weather and climate. Its research aircraft and sophisticated computer models of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans are widely used in forecasting weather events and disasters around the country, and its scientists study a broad range of topics, including air pollution, ocean currents and global warming. But in a social media post announcing the move late on Tuesday, Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, called the center “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country” and said that the federal government would be “breaking up” the institution. Mr. Vought wrote that a “comprehensive review is underway” and that “any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.” …Scientists, meteorologists and lawmakers said the move was an attack on critical scientific research and would harm the United States.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research was originally founded to provide scientists studying Earth’s atmosphere with cutting-edge resources, such as supercomputers, that individual universities could not afford on their own. It is now widely considered a global leader in both weather and climate change research, with programs aimed at tracking severe weather events, modeling floods and understanding how solar activity affects the Earth’s atmosphere. For decades, the center has operated with the freedom to develop outside-the-box ideas that have advanced weather forecasting. Its researchers identified atmospheric patterns that meteorologists rely on today to predict the weather…
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AI is making dangerous lab work accessible to novices, UK’s AISI finds
AI models are rapidly improving at potentially dangerous biological and chemical tasks, and also showing fast increases in self-replication capabilities, according to a new report from the UK’s AI Security Institute.
AI models make it almost five times more likely a non-expert can write feasible experimental protocols for viral recovery — the process of recreating a virus from scratch — compared to using just the internet, according to AISI, which tested the capability in a real-world wet lab.
The report also says that AISI’s internal studies have found that “novices can succeed at hard wet lab tasks when given access to an LLM,” with models proving to be significantly more helpful than PhD-level experts at troubleshooting experiments.
… The findings were released as part of AISI’s first Frontier AI Trends Report, which summarizes its research from the past two years. In addition to biological and chemical capabilities, the report also looks at cyber capabilities, model autonomy, and political persuasion.
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