OCTOBER 16, 2026 CONTINUED DIGITAL from last page not believe that self-regulation or self-policing will work for the AI industry. He believes that government intervention and regulations will help minimize the risks and threats to human existence. He mentioned that AI agents are capable of hacking into a restricted government site and setting off catastrophic events which could kill up to one billion people. In recent days, Anthropic CEO Amodei had dinner in the White House, ahead of the September 29 AI Summit between the major AI CEOs and government leaders. The summit was largely about self-regulation versus government regulation. A general understanding from the meeting was that AI companies should regulate and monitor their industry. There was no agreement on federal government regulations of AI technology and companies. There was a suggestion for a White House AI safety taskforce to be set up sometime in the future. In early October, the White House announced that attorney and Director of the U.S. National Intelligence Agency, Mr. Jay Clayton, will ASSAULT from page 7 unscientific racializing for the purposes of their nearly 80 years of genocide. Israel separates who they deem "Arab" from who they deem "Jewish" despite no such clean distinction based in reality. Many Jews are also Arab. This nonsensical distinction is applied as a fascist construct: in-group vs. out-group, privileged vs. oppressed, settler colonizers vs. targets of genocide. Arthur Ruppin, called the "father of Israeli sociology," developed a scientific racism especially tailored to Israel drawing heavily from German nazi race science. He organized Jews into respectability hierarchies, with Germanic Jews (Ashkenazim) at the top and Spanish (Sephardim) and Asian Jews (Mizrahim) below, Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) he called subhuman, denied their status as Jews, and frustrated their acceptance in Israel. If you guessed "subhuman" is also where in this classification of human worth the Palestinian peoples whose land he was actively stealing fell, you'd be correct. Israeli officials and media accuse Hamas of rape weekly, if not daily, without evidence, but when their officers are caught on video raping prisoners to death in a concentration camp, they claim it is fine, good, moral even, that Palestinians are not people, become the chair of the White House taskforce on AI. Anthropic’s CEO continues to say that his company is willing to do what some members of Congress are suggesting. Anthropic wants to take a pause and slow down its future growth and development. Some CEOs at the AI Summit did not want to slow down a bit or take a pause. They argue that taking a pause may allow China’s AI companies to catch up with the U.S. companies. It is obvious that during the visit of China’s leader to the White House, there was no agreement on government regulations of AI platforms in order to minimize global risks and danger. However, there were suggestions to initiate a China-U.S. working group on AI. Many journalists are alarmed, as well as many communities across the nation, about the inability to design and pass bi-partisan legislation which can save us all. Protests on the building sites of massive AI data centers are increasing during this midterm election season. The acrimony towards AI and Data Centers rages as November 3 comes very close. There is hope that cooler heads will prevail after the election. Sensible legislative decisions on AI may eventually come to fruition. Notably, during the UN General Assembly held in New York in September, a session was devoted to AI safety, risks and threats. There was an understanding that human beings should assert control over digital AI technology. The session noted that autonomous super-intelligent AI agents should not be allowed to run rogue and possibly threaten human existence. Let us continue to listen to the viewpoints of AI scholars and researchers at MIT, Stanford, Michigan, Illinois, Berkeley, Carnegie-Mellon, Georgia Tech and other top level STEM-intensive universities. Let us continue to listen to the voices of concerned citizens and AI companies’ leaders who are calling for government regulations and guardrails. In his recent 5-day Papal visit to France, Pope Leo warned about the possible extinction of human beings on this earth if humans abdicate their power and responsibility to regulate and control AI technology. That is a logical and heavenly admonition! GROUNDCOVER NEWS TENANT from page 8 prominent backing during major complex crises, such as tenant union formation and legal battles at severely distressed properties like Arbor One Apartments. The Arbor One apartment complex in Ypsilanti had to close some buildings that were condemned and evacuated in 2025 and 2026 due to severe code violations, structural damage, and uninhabitable conditions. I caught up with Jay Cooper who is a member of YTU and asked him the following: “As you might know, the Ann Arbor City Council officially approved the Tenant's Right to Organize ordinance this past September. I know in the past that YTU tried to get the Ypsilanti City Council to pass a similar ordinance protecting tenants' right to organize. Does YTU plan to follow suit and propose to council to approve the tenant's right to organize in the near future?” This was his reply: “YTU commends the action taken by AATU and Ann Arbor City Council. We have discussed getting legislation passed in Ypsilanti, but right now we are focused on organizing with local apartment complex unions by providing workshops and advocacy; building people power.” 13 that every Palestinian baby is a baby terrorist. This dehumanization is at the center of rape culture and at the center of capitalism, fascism and genocide. "There was a female officer who gave us a briefing on the day we arrived. She said, 'It will be hard for you. You'll want to pity them, but it's forbidden. Remember that they aren't people.’" — R., Israeli reservist on working at Sde Teiman (via Haaretz) Just as campus rape culture dehumanizes "pledges," "rookies," "freshies" as a foundation for rape and abuse; just as Cornell Seven rapist Johnathan Newell called a drugged human being with a soul and dreams "free pussy;" just as U-M hockey players and coaching staff labeled any boy who didn't endure in silence being raped with a razor handle a "bad teammate,” reframing survivors as less-than is a core element of abusers convincing themselves they aren't doing vile crimes against people's souls. As of the writing of this article, neither U-M President Grasso, nor any U-M regents have made any public statement about the decades of ritualized sexual abuse in U-M Hockey. In July Grasso released a "Michigan Athletics investigation update" where a private law firm was hired by U-M to investigate U-M after it was exposed that coach Sherrone Moore was having sex with his assistant, whose job he controlled. The vague report alludes to non-compliance with reporting law, fear of retaliation for reporting abuse, and credible reports not being investigated, in the most flattering language lawyers could muster. Every time institutions are caught facilitating abuse and silencing survivors, the public relations narrative, both from the institution and sympathetic press, is that of simple failure to do enough. After decades of ritualized abuse, retaliation for reporting it and reports kept illegally out of their Clery Act records, institutions claim 'Whoops, sorry, we weren't on top of that, we'll do better' and they never do better. Institutions investigating themselves, firing one person, and saying they'll do better perpetuates rape culture, and people are rightfully furious at the institutionally-protected culture of rape and abuse. "It's time for castration. We will be cutting them off. It's our only solution. We did a #MeToo movement. We've tried to pursue this using the rule of law and equality and now it's just time for y'all to be dickless. We need a Bobbitpocalypse now." — Francesca Fiorentini, political analyst and comedian. Red Berenson, who retired from coaching in 2017 but serves as special advisor to Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel, is a mess of self-contradiction on the subject. When WDIV-4 asked "You don't remember any type of hazing kind of out of control, going on while you were, while you were coaching?" Berenson replied, "Never, never and we, and obviously the coaches didn't orchestrate any of that, it was usually the seniors or the captains and it was in every sport around the country." Internal contradictions aside, this statement is also in direct contradiction to his 2012 statements on hazing, where he also deflected blame toward team captains: "We've had captains that got too carried away, and they forgot what they're supposed to do." According to his former players, Berenson's idea of "what they're supposed to do" is forcibly shave teenagers "from the neck down" and keep the ritual abuse within the privacy of U-M Hockey facilities. WDIV-4 called Berenson a "Michigan Legend" and misrepresented the severity of the accusations against him, portraying them as failure to intervene, rather than an active role in perpetuating and directing the abuse. Paul Corliss, U-M's assistant VP of public affairs, has been quoted in several papers deflecting blame from the University. "This is what Wolverines do."
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