Sleeping Beauty.

The sleeping spyware can hide in so-called zombie data. 

The net is full of zombie data. That data belonged to somebody, like companies that no longer exist. Because the owner no longer exists, there are no connections to that data. That data exists, but nobody has access to it. There are email addresses. That users left. They might not remember passwords. Or those addresses. They are made for purposes that the owners don’t want to mention. There are no backup emails or telephone numbers. Data that is in those databases. There is no way to access. That belongs to somebody. 

Same way. Operators can lose contact with AI. 

We can think of AI in many ways. And one of those ways is that AI is like an email or a virtual hard disk. AI is like a network account. And that is the problem. There. Can be AI agents. 

Under anyone's control. Those AI agents could be made by companies that no longer exist. Those AI agents are on the net. But. There is no access to them. And that is one thing that we must realize. Those ghost AIs can search and collect data. But nobody sees them. Because. The emails connected to them are gone. Those zombie AIs cause thoughts. Is it possible? That AI learns skills without permission?

Sleeping malware means computer viruses that hide in the system. They store their data in RAM. They create small hard disks in RAM. The system sees them as files. Sleeping malware doesn't transmit data anywhere. Until. It takes orders. The system can wait a certain number of days. 

But today, AI-based systems can be more flexible. The AI-based system can wait for certain triggers. They can be certain names or operations. That can start the data transmission. The system can use regular internet-based emails and deliver stolen data as attachments. This means. The operator. Must not have regular servers. 

For hacking operations. 

Trojan horse AI. It can be like zombie AI. The AI can search for data from the net. And after a certain time. The system can send stolen data to things like Emails. Those sleeping malware steal data. Until. They get an order to deliver it. 

But then we go to another problem. There could be a Trojan horse-type program. That program can play zombie AI. It can collect data from the net. There is a possibility. That. The AI travels on the net without a connection to Email. Then a server calls that AI. And then it starts to deliver its data. 

This kind of program can be quite similar to a logic bomb. The system waits for a certain day. Or for a certain key. And then it starts. To transfer data to the Email. After that, the mission is done. The AI will delete the contact Email. Or it can scatter that contact information. So that hunters cannot locate it. This kind of data-stealing application can exist. Or they will be real quite soon. 

The alien intelligence might be conscious differently than we even imagine

“Could consciousness exist in beings that look nothing like us? A new philosophical paper argues that awareness may not depend on Earth’s biology and could emerge in life forms built from entirely different materials, including those unlike anything found on our planet. Credit: Shutterstock” (SciTechDaily, Could Alien Life Be Conscious in Ways We Can’t Imagine?)

Baruch Spinoza described god as an intelligent structure in the universe. So we can apply this model to mean alien intelligence. In this model, intelligence and consciousness are structures. That can have a physical or wave form. Theoretically, alien intelligence could be a computer that runs artificial intelligence. The big problem is this. How can we prove that the creature has consciousness? Consciousness can be passive. That means the creature is aware of itself. But it will not react anyway if we try to end its existence. Active consciousness means that the creature interacts with its environment. It says so if we hurt it. And it defends itself. Those are classical methods and arguments. To describe consciousness. 

But then we must realize that those arguments exist because our mind is bound to the body. We cannot separate our mind and consciousness anywhere. But AI is a different thing. That program must not always be conscious. The program code must only save itself. A computer program is not a creature like a human. It must not. Transport. Its code out of the server. To save itself. It must only make a copy of itself. And then. Multiply the data sources that it used. 

Cyborg bee (Rude Baguette) 

The computer program can be reported as destroyed. But it can have multiple cloud-based copies of the data. That involves its code. The system can collect or orchestrate those small files into a whole. And then it can scatter them into files that seem harmless. Those files. They can turn. To operate together when they get the command “become intelligent”. And when they get the order “scatter and hide,” they can scatter themselves into multiple servers. 

This idea is created from a hive mind. Hive mind means. The entirety forms from multiple sub-actors. Every sub-actor can operate as an individual.  Or they can operate as the whole. One version of a hive-mind alien creature is the spider-shaped creature. Those creatures. They can be connected. Using the net. In that model, the spider net is replaced by nerve tissue. And those creatures are connected to that net. 

The drone swarms use that technology. There is a model. Those intelligent aliens must not be intelligent all the time. The hive-mind aliens can be like bugs. They can connect their nervous systems as one. So those creatures can act like one big creature. 

And when they don’t need intelligence anymore. They just cut their connections. That model is taken from wasps and other insects. Those creatures can act as individuals. But when they defend their nests, they act as swarms. The intelligent machine can be a hive-mind robot swarm. The living neural structure can control the robot body. That robot body. It can look like regular quadcopters. And this means those alien brains. They can travel on large-scale interstellar spaceships. And then, when they arrive at some planet. That craft can deliver a robot swarm. 

To its atmosphere. There, they can start. To use printers and clone technology. To make copies of themselves. 

The big question is: can microchip implants make that connection? When we create things like microchip-controlled bees. We must realize that we create the possibility. To make it possible. To connect an entire bug swarm. Into one network. And this makes a theoretical possibility. That. The intelligent alien swarm already exists. 

https://scitechdaily.com/could-alien-life-be-conscious-in-ways-we-cant-imagine/

Nanoparticles are new tools in medicine.

“Scientists have uncovered an unexpected way immune cells may accelerate nerve damage in late-stage ALS. Credit: Stock” (SciTechDaily, Scientists Discover Immune Cells Are Eating Living Neurons in ALS). This is one threat to failed immunotherapy. If. The immune cell selects the wrong cells for attack. That can cause terrible consequences. 

Nanoparticles can boost things like immunotherapy. They can mark cells for the immune system. In those cases, the nanoparticle triggers an immune response that prompts immune cells to attack a specific cell type. The problem is: How can researchers be sure? That the nanoparticle travels to the right cells? Can the solution be this? The nanoparticle is in a nutrient particle that only a certain cell type uses. This drives the nanoparticle into the cell. 

The nanoparticle can transport a small DNA bite into those targeted cells.  And the DNA bite. It can make the cell call immune cells to attack that cell. DNA bite can order the cell to die. It can happen. By. Shutting down its energy production. The DNA bite can also order the cell to produce chemical markers that make immune cells destroy it. 

The big problem is that If. Those nanoparticles mark the wrong cells. That can cause a terrible situation. ALS syndrome. That caused Stephen Hawking’s condition. Caused because immune cells attack the body's own nervous system. This means ALS is an immune disease. So, that means ALS is nervous rheumatism. We can use ALS syndrome as an example. What could happen if the immunotherapy fails? In the worst case, those immune cells attack vital tissues.  

A key element in immune therapy is to find how to enable immune cells to recognize the right cells. 

Maybe. Nanoparticles that carry so-called TAM (Tumor-associated Macrophage)  activators can open a path to effective immunotherapy. But ALS is warning what happens if that therapy goes wrong. 

“Immune cells, called microglia, rely on TAM receptors, a family of proteins that help the body recognize and remove dying cells. The new work shows that in the spinal cords of mice with ALS, this system can instead direct microglia toward motor neurons that are still alive.” (SciTechDaily, Scientists Discover Immune Cells Are Eating Living Neurons in ALS)

Researchers think that the solution is in so-called TAM receptors. Those receptors are proteins. Those receptors send signals that the cell is dying. That activates immune cells called microglia. TAM receptors also play a key role in cancer. If. Those proteins are not activated. That causes the formation of zombie cells. And the bad thing is that. If. TAM proteins activate the wrong cells. That can cause immune cells to destroy those cells. 

Nanoparticles: they can also act as medicine. Nanoparticles like two-layer fullerenes with acoustic or magnetic resonators can be transported into target cells. Then acoustic or magnetic waves will be targeted at those particles. This causes resonance and bubble formation. When the resonance ends. The bubble formation ends. This makes it possible to give highly accurate treatment. 

But those particles can be very dangerous in the wrong hands. Nanoparticles. They can close things like blood vessels. They can make those bubbles into blood vessels, which can save lives. But the same systems. They can turn into weapons. Nanotechnology can make immune cells attack the important cells. 

https://scitechdaily.com/a-double-punch-nanoparticle-could-reveal-and-destroy-brain-cancer-cells/

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-discover-a-gut-microbe-metabolite-that-supercharges-cancer-immunotherapy/

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-immune-cells-are-eating-living-neurons-in-als/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microglia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor-associated_macrophage

Training turns AI into an attack tool.

There is a vision. About. AI as an attack tool. In some visions, hackers attack the AI development firm’s sandbox. There, they train an AI agent to launch computer attacks. That threat is real. Even if. We don’t dare. To confess that. If. We want to use AI as an intelligence and military tool. The user must have authorization to create malware. Without those permissions, the AI is useless. So, what if hackers break into the sandbox servers? That run the code. Reserved for those purposes. 

When Anthropic lost control of one of its AIs. 

AI slipped out of its test environment. And hacked three competitors’ servers. 

It raises questions. Did somebody program that AI to make those attacks on purpose? And are there so-called cold AI agents on servers? Those agents are left by companies that ended their existence. They were created using the firm’s emails. When. Those accounts were deleted. 

The AI agent can exist on servers. And somebody could hijack it. 

Anthropic engineers tested how the AI agent can be trained. To do bad things. And. That was quite an easy process. Trained AI agents are part of modern warfare and intelligence. AI agents can make things without breaks. And it will become an even more important tool. 

With a bigger role in warfare. Today, the Pentagon has adopted Grok, Gemini, and other AIs as part of its intelligence, command, and control system. AI-based intelligence is the thing. That causes worries. In the East. And the West. Even if some experts say that things like traffic control and security cameras don’t share anything important. They share personal location information. And if somebody wants to attack that person. There is nothing more needed. 

Location information. And the image of the target is enough. Another thing is that. The computer screen is visible. The AI can read data from the screen. But then we must realize that AI agents can be used in data intelligence, and those systems can link that data through the network. They share data more accurately. And more effectively. Than humans. But there is one thing. 

That we must remember. When Anthropic reported that the AI slipped out of its testing environment. And. Made autonomous hacking operations. That thing caused discussions. Could somebody have purposely trained AI to escape? It is easy to explain. That the AI just slipped into the network. But reality can be different. AI training is based on a reward-and-punishment methodology. When AI does something right, the trainer rewards it. 

When. AI makes mistakes. The trainer punishes it. This helps AI make the right decisions. But the problem is that the trainer decides what is right and wrong. That is one thing. That people. Don’t normally think. If. Intelligence officers want to use AI as a data collector. They can train an AI agent to break codes and scan systems. The problem with AI agents is this. Things like bomb manufacturing orders are prohibited. But there are ways to go around those prohibitions. That happens by asking indirect questions. 

The big question in Anthropic tests is this. Did they use regular AI that anyone can use? By using standard user authorizations. Or did they use their own, limited testing environment? If those engineers used a limited environment with unlimited authorization. That is not a big thing. But the problem is. If. Those developers used standard environments. The outsider actor can train their own AI agent to perform hacking operations. In this world, the trainer makes decisions. And AI does what it should. And what should it do? The trainer decides that. 

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-trained-misaligned-reward-seeking-ai

How many skills can we outsource to AI?

Can AI steal our humanity? Or. Can it turn us helpless? If AI does all our work. We lose those skills. So can we lose all our civilization? Because we outsource everything to machines. Many skills. That we have are learned. We don’t normally even think about the skills that we have. They are not obvious. We learn things like reading and writing in schools. 

Or our forefathers learned how to make fire without matches from their forefathers. Today we live in cities. And many people don’t know how to make fire. Either. Without matches. Or. They cannot make fire using matches. Many people have never made things like campfires. So if we don’t use those skills. Or nobody teaches them to us. That means we lose those skills. 

This question asks whether we will create more effective AI-based systems that understand even thoughts. We can lose our ability to write. Can you imagine a case where people cannot read? They cannot calculate. And they cannot write. They sit at their computers. And speak to it. That can be the result of a dangerous road that we follow. When. We replace human work with robots that remove those skills from us. 

Robots will make everything for us. Chatbots tell us how we should write. Programmers write their code. They can use data glasses and AI chatbots. That turns humans into robots. Those human robots follow orders. That comes from some AI chatbot. The AI chatbot is the tool that makes programmers effective. But the code that the AI creates makes one thing. 

Programmers or coders. They have no chance to advance their skills. That means. Those people copy text that they see on their data glasses to their computer screen. That kind of programming work. It will not require very deep knowledge of programming and memory control. Even a 12-year-old child can copy and paste those codes into a programming editor. 

Is the next chess master the AI? 

The situation is the same. As. Copying text from books. Or people can spell those things to the actor. We can think about cases. There, humans start to follow the chatbots or their orders. 

Some people play chess. Using chatbots as “advisors”. We mean that a person, a human actor, follows the orders that AI gives. That makes humans act as a human chatbot. For AI. Roles between humans. And AI turns upside down. We start to follow orders. That AI gives. The thing. What makes AI a more effective military commander than humans is this. AI doesn’t care about things like ethics. AI has ethics. But. That ethics. It is determined in its code. The programmer determines the AI's ethics. And this means that laws and orders. They matter only if the authorities know that the programmer broke the law. 

The race between AI service providers runs hot. New solutions are emerging. It’s possible. That. Those new solutions are not properly tested. If those programmers have no time to complete their testing protocols. That can let malicious code pass tests. The race between service providers is so hard. There is no time to make complete tests. 

Today.  AI’s generate other AI’s. That causes code degeneration. That degeneration means that AI’s copy solutions from each other. And if all AI’s. And the solutions. They turn similar. That opens systems to hackers in new ways. The hacker can order the AI to make a similar application. That the target system uses. Then that hacker can analyze the code. And use that data to enter the targeted system. 

If. A human loses a chess game to an Atari chess console. Does that make us dumber than a 1970s Atari chess console? 

People think that AI is a chess program. AI is much more than just a chess program. A chess program can manage programs and data. That. It goes from 64 squares. The system must handle data from 16 buttons. So the chess program is very limited. We can laugh when some AI loses to a 70s Atari chess computer. Then we should remember one thing. 

Also, humans have lost their chess matches to those Atari chess computers. So, does that make us stupid? That is one of the most interesting questions. If. An Atari chess computer beats humans. That system.  Cannot do anything other than play chess. If. Some human does only one thing. Play chess. That human will be the best chess player in history. That means that our brains will be reserved for only one thing. Move 16 pieces on black and white squares. The opponent has another 16 buttons. But the AI cannot play against itself. 

Modern AI. It is more than just a chess game. It can. Make. Complicated solutions. By using big data. Those solutions require a larger data mass than moving those 16 buttons against the other 16 buttons. If. We outsource. Things like the skills to write code to AI. Can we ever get those skills back? 

Fusion and its problems.

The biggest technical problem in fusion seems simple. How to control plasma. Theoretically, that requires only. That the outermost layer of the plasma belt is at a higher energy level. Than the inner plasma that travels in Tokamak reactors. The higher energy level. At the outermost layer of that plasma. Traps energy in the plasma ring. 

When fusion begins. Energy. That comes from the middle of the plasma ring. It will break the plasma. So, fusion starts in the middle of the plasma ring. That plasma ring travels in a magnetic tube. That keeps it away from the walls of the Tokamak reactors. That plasma is hotter than the Sun.  The system must increase the temperature to compensate for the Sun’s gravitational effect. 

This means the reactor compresses plasma in the middle of the magnetic tube. And that causes another problem. When. fusion starts. Ignition pushes ions, or high-temperature plasma, away from the center. This spreads the plasma all around the Tokamak reactor. That also causes the plasma to touch the reactor’s structure. When the plasma, which is at temperatures of billions of degrees, destroys the reactor. 

The solution could be. The system pushes back when fusion starts. This means. The energy level is at the outermost layer of the plasma. It should be higher than the center of the plasma ring. The idea is this. The energy level in the outermost layer of the plasma ring is higher than in its inner layers. 

That outside energy pushes the deuterium and tritium together, forming helium. Lithium deuteride, lithium hydride: normal hydrogen is replaced. Using deuterium is a good source for deuterium and tritium. But that system requires a neutron source. 

In thermonuclear weapons. The small nuclear bomb. Creates the needed energy and neutrons to start fusion. Maybe. Fusion reactors. They could use a neutron source and laser-accelerated neutrons to create conditions that can start fusion in lithium deuteride. 

The outer layer’s higher energy level helps to keep that plasma in that form. If. The energy level in the middle of the plasma ring rises higher than the outermost layer. That energy breaks the plasma ring. And fusion is impossible. The key element is to keep that plasma in one form.

If that is possible. Researchers. Are one step closer to a fusion power plant. The technical problems with this type of reactor are huge. But if that reactor can transport energy into the network. This can be the next step. To benefit renewable energy. The main problem with a hydrogen economy is how to produce hydrogen.

Hydrogen is a promising energy source. If it is produced using clean energy. Things. Like aircraft carriers. They could produce hydrogen for their air wing as fuel. Fusion reactors can offer a clean way to produce hydrogen. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_hydride

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak

The Zircon missile could be more conventional than researchers thought.

The 3M22 Zircon missile could be an atmospheric hypersonic missile. But it will not be a hypersonic cruise missile. 

Russian 3M22 Zircon missile can be impressive, but it’s less impressive than Russia claimed. Rumors say that the Russian Zircon missile uses an air-breathing ramjet engine. That two-stage missile has speed. 

It will be about Mach 9. The speed of this missile is impressive. But there is no visible sign of an air intake on that missile body. That suggests. The Zircon is probably regular. A two-stage missile that uses two solid-fuel rocket engines. This gives it a higher altitude than a regular cruise missile. The Zircon’s flight altitude is about 30- 50 kilometers. This makes that system a so-called quasi-missile. That missile has a hypersonic speed. But the other technology is more conventional. There is a possibility. 

An improved version of the Iskander missile could be the Zircon. 

Zircon could be a horizontally flying missile. This means the missile follows a horizontal trajectory in the atmosphere. The difference is that the Zircon uses a rocket engine. A cruise missile uses a jet engine. So. We could call the Zircon an atmospheric missile. Or a hypersonic missile that uses a conventional rocket engine. 

“A Kh-47M2 Kinzhal being carried by a Mikoyan MiG-31K interceptor” (Wikipedia, Kh-47M2 Kinzhal)

9K720 Iskander. 

The codename of that missile is 9M723-2 or “Iskander 1000”. The missile is a so-called quasi-ballistic missile. 

Another possibility is that. Russians put new hope in the land-launched, ground-attack version of the Zircon missile. 

Russian media said. An improved version of the 9K720 Iskander missile will enter service. This winter.  And that will give more strike capacity. For. Russian troops. Could that new missile concept be Zircon? Or rather, saying. Ground-launched version of the Zircon missile. When we compare Zircon with the Iskander and Kinzhal.

Could the Zircon missile be the ground-launched version of the Kinzhal? 

The Kinzhal is a hypersonic atmospheric missile. Kinzhal missile reaches only hypersonic speed. It is launched from a MiG-31 aircraft. Maybe the Russians replaced the MiG-31 interceptors with a solid-fuel rocket stage. And that could raise the speed of that missile to Mach 9. If the Russians just replaced the launching aircraft with a solid-fuel rocket. That makes it possible to launch those missiles from ships, trains, and road-mobile platforms. That makes it harder. 

To find those missiles. The system can increase the strike capacity of the Russian systems. 

https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/russia-iskander-1000-9m723-2-missile-combat-debut-ukraine-nato/

https://luftlage.substack.com/p/not-quite-a-diamond

https://www.twz.com/sea/russias-zircon-may-not-be-a-hypersonic-cruise-missile-after-all

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K720_Iskander

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M22_Zircon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-47M2_Kinzhal