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Claim: 70,000 Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses (Viral Post, 2023-08-01)
Evidence (2024-04-18): The US government has long accused China of flooding the country with deadly drugs like fentanyl, a synthetic opioid up to 50 times stronger than heroin, claims the Chinese government denies. The US says Chinese-made opioids are fuelling the worst drug crisis in the country's history. In 2022 more than 70,000 Americans died from fentanyl overdoses. [...] "Synthetics like fentanyl have several advantages over traditional drugs - compact, easily shippable, pre-existing demand, replaceable. They're attractive to traffickers." [...] In 2019, the Chinese government banned all forms of fentanyl and its analogues. In January 2024, China and the US launched a joint operation to curb the production of the synthetic opioid fentanyl.
Claim: 70,000 Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses (Viral Post, 2023-08-01)
Evidence (2018-11-29): Drug overdose deaths rose above 70,000 in 2017, an increase of almost 10 percent to a record high, according to government statistics out Thursday. [...] The death rates are driven mostly by a startling 9.6 percent increase in drug overdose deaths, from 63,632 in 2016, to 70,237 in 2017. Most of the overdoses involved opioids of some sort, and the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics recorded a 45 percent increase in deaths from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl and tramadol. They accounted for nearly 30,000 of the drug overdose deaths. [...] "In 2017, a total of 2,813,503 resident deaths were registered in the United States — 69,255 more deaths than in 2016," the CDC report reads.
Claim: 70,000 Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses (Viral Post, 2023-08-01)
Evidence (2023-09-27): In 2022, 73,654 people died from a fentanyl overdose[1] in the US, more than double the amount of deaths from three years prior in 2019. Fentanyl deaths have increased every year for the past decade, but 2022 marked the smallest year-over-year growth at 4.3%. [...] With deaths from prescription opioids[2] and heroin falling, fentanyl overdoses have made up an increasingly large share of drug deaths. Since 2019, fentanyl has been involved in over half of all drug overdose deaths. By 2022, it was the underlying cause of nearly 70% of drug overdose deaths. [...] California had the most total deaths from fentanyl in 2022 with 6,453. Florida (5,083) and New York (4,950) had the second and third most total deaths. In general, states with higher populations have more total fentanyl overdose deaths.
Claim: 70,000 Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses (Viral Post, 2023-08-01)
Evidence (2024-09-22): Last year, more than 70,000 Americans died from a fentanyl overdose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's a higher death toll than U.S. military casualties in the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined. [...] The CDC says other signs of a fentanyl overdose are an inability to awaken the person; constricted "pinpoint" pupils that don't react to light; shallow breathing or difficulty breathing, such as choking sounds, gurgling, or snoring from someone who cannot be awakened; and discolored skin, especially in the nails or lips. Dr. Campman added that a rare subset of fentanyl overdose victims die a more rapid death due to "wooden chest syndrome," where they suddenly can't breathe.
Claim: 70,000 Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses (Viral Post, 2023-08-01)
Evidence (2024-09-24): We are in the midst of the worst drug crisis in U.S. history. The drug is fentanyl, and unlike cocaine and heroin, it's a purely chemical, man-made drug. It's cheap to produce, easily smuggled, and packs an incredibly addictive punch – 50 times more powerful than heroin. Nearly all the fentanyl flooding into the U.S. is made in Mexico by two powerful drug cartels, with chemicals primarily purchased from China. And as you're about to hear, it is frequently hidden in counterfeit pills made to look just like prescription drugs. It's the scourge of our time. Last year more than 70,000 Americans died from fentanyl; that's a higher death toll than U.S. military casualties in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined. [...] Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid – a chemical cousin to morphine – originally designed for hospital patients in extreme pain. Now it is in cities and towns in all 50 states. Frequent users heat up fentanyl powder and inhale it. But more often it's sold in pill form – deliberately made to look like real prescription drugs – the one on the left contains fentanyl. Just two milligrams, an amount that fits on the tip of a pencil, can kill. [...] Three years ago, Anne Milgram – a former attorney general of New Jersey – took over the Drug Enforcement Administration. Since then fentanyl has claimed more than 200,000 American lives, although deaths appear to be leveling off.
Claim: 70,000 Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses (Viral Post, 2023-08-01)
Evidence (2023-05-03): Nearly 70,000 people in the US died of drug overdoses that involved fentanyl in 2021, almost a four-fold increase over five years. By 2021, about two-thirds of all overdose deaths involved the potent synthetic opioid, according to the report. Multiple drugs can be reported on one death certificate, and fentanyl is often found along with others, according to the CDC. [...] Pharmaceutical fentanyl is a synthetic opioid intended to help patients, such as those with cancer, manage severe pain. It is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and typically prescribed in the form of skin patches or lozenges. But most recent cases of fentanyl-related harm, overdose and death in the United States are linked to illegally made fentanyl, according to the CDC. [...] In 2021, fentanyl was involved in about 22 deaths for every 100,000 people – more than twice as many as the age-adjusted death rate from overdoses involving methamphetamine or cocaine, and more than seven times higher than those involving heroin.
Claim: 70,000 Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses (Viral Post, 2023-08-01)
Evidence (2023-02-09): After introducing a New Hampshire father whose 20-year-old daughter died eight years ago from a fentanyl overdose, Biden laid out a grim statistic: "Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year." [...] Fentanyl and related synthetic opioids are potent and can be transported in small amounts. When they first began having a major impact in the U.S. about a decade ago, they were largely being produced in labs in China and shipped into the country. [...] Some who overdose on fentanyl don’t know they’re using it. But in other cases, drug users seek it out specifically.
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2023-06-02): While the Air Force colonel made remarks that an AI-controlled drone killed its operator in a simulator, the official later said he misspoke. The Air Force denied any such simulation occurred.
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2023-06-02): 🔴 An AI-controlled US military drone "killed" its operator in a simulation to prevent it from interfering with its mission. [...] While the Air Force colonel made remarks that an AI-controlled drone killed its operator in a simulator, the official later said he misspoke. The Air Force denied any such simulation occurred. [...] The Telegraph later updated its headline to read, "US air force colonel admits simulation where AI drone ‘killed operator’ didn’t happen." It did not issue an editor’s note or correction noting the changes. The Independent also reworked its article to note the denials and Hamilton’s admission that he "misspoke" but still contains the sub-headline, "AI drone turned on operator after realising they stood in the way of its ‘higher mission’, US Air Force says" which is incorrect as the Air Force denied the simulation ever occurred.
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2024-05-17): The world has no strong protections in place to protect against the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI), a major report announced at the Prime Minister’s AI summit last year has warned. [...] "Its capabilities have been improving particularly rapidly," the report says. [...] Prof Bengio told The Telegraph he was concerned most of the world’s governments were "sleepwalking and not sufficiently conscious of the magnitude of the risks".
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2022-02-24): But what if people don’t agree with official sources of information at all? This is a problem that governments around the world are facing as the public views what they tell them with increasing scepticism. [...] Keep up to date with Future Now stories by joining our 800,000+ fans on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter. If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called "If You Only Read 6 Things This Week". A handpicked selection of stories from BBC Future, Earth, Culture, Capital, and Travel, delivered to your inbox every Friday.
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2023-03-23): A look to the future [...] If you want to know more...
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2024-01-10): - About this Report - [...] Glossary of AI Terms - [...] The growing use of AI-generated false and misleading information is exacerbating the challenge of the so-called liar’s dividend, in which widespread wariness of falsehoods on a given topic can muddy the waters to the extent that people disbelieve true statements. For example, political actors have labeled reliable reporting as AI-enabled fakery, or spread manipulated content to sow doubt about very similar genuine content. In April 2023, the Indian state of Tamil Nadu was rattled by a political controversy after leaked recordings captured Palanivel Thiagarajan, a prominent official in the state’s ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party, disparaging his colleagues. Thiagarajan denounced the audio clips as machine generated; independent researchers determined that at least one was authentic. In Ethiopia, after a member of the ruling Prosperity Party was killed in the Amhara region in April 2023, state-affiliated media outlets released audio that purportedly linked a militia group to the killing. An organization released a report alleging that the audio recordings were manipulated using AI; another fact-checking group then accused the organization of being fake, casting doubt on the claim of AI manipulation.
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
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Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
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Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2023-10-04): Artificial intelligence has turbocharged state efforts to crack down on internet freedoms over the past year. [...] Authoritarian regimes, in particular, are using AI to make censorship more widespread and effective. [...] Get the latest updates from
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Coverage by McKenzie Sadeghi, Lorenzo Arvanitis, Virginia Padovese, Giulia Pozzi, Sara Badilini, Chiara Vercellone, Macrina Wang, Jack Brewster, Natalie Huet, Zack Fishman, Leonie Pfaller, Natalie Adams, and Miranda Wollen | Last Updated Oct. 2, 2024
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2024-02-06): Table 1: List of news organizations [...] I think it’s the same with anything that there’s hype around […] people that read any of the kind of reporting in tech are kind of aware of AI being something that has all this promise. So I think that quite naturally leads itself to people thinking, "Well, could we use it to do something," you know? (Journalist, U.K.) [...] Reflection: AI in the News, A Difference That Makes a Difference?
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2023-10-30): The headline continues to assert that developments in AI leave the risk of catastrophic events as likely to occur. These examples indicate that there is imminent concern regarding the danger of AI. In terms of political leaning, this theme is well-represented across all outlets. While the above examples come from two right-leaning newspapers (The Daily Mail and The Telegraph) and one from the Centrist/Unaffiliated newspaper The Independent, our analysis did not indicate any differences in the way that this theme was communicated in relation to political leaning. In terms of the theme ‘Explanation/Informative’, examples from multiple newspaper outlets are provided in Table 6.
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2022-06-23): Finally, considering that A.I. is a complex niche topic that gradually gained wider media attention, it is not unlikely that a limited group of journalists and experts report about/comment on A.I. developments. RQ3, therefore, is: Who are the journalists and opinion leaders that produce A.I.-related news content? [...] Media interest in A.I. steadily increased over the past decade and nearly quadrupled from 2010 to 2015 (Fig. 1). While the overall number of articles covering A.I. is likely to be comparatively small in the overall daily output of most news outlets, the topic visibly attracted attention in just a few years. News content on A.I. issues also became longer and grew by ca. 39% from 2010 (M = 1003 words) to 2020 (M = 1394 words). The number of articles continued to increase until reaching a peak in 2018, before it started to decrease. This may indicate a "hype-cycle" for A.I., not unlike the media buzz around big data a few years earlier. [...] This would indicate that mainstream outlets are slightly more critical/negative about A.I. than their tech-focused counterparts. A potential explanation is the underlying political leaning of a news outlet. The NYT and the Guardian are considered to be more progressive and left-leaning in the U.S. and British media landscapes, which might explain a more critical outlook on tech businesses. Therefore, while they are part of the media mainstream, they should not be considered as fully representative of the same, since centre-right leaning outlets may differ in their framing of A.I. along the benefits-risks spectrum.
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
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Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2019-03-11): This is among the findings from a new study by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism on the UK media coverage of artificial intelligence which is, according to the authors, dominated by industry products, announcements and research. Instead of critically examining the claims behind AI developments, the coverage frequently amplifies self-interested assertions of AI’s value and potential, while positioning AI primarily as a private commercial concern and undercutting the role of public action in addressing AI. [...] The study also found that media coverage of AI is being politicised and split along partisan lines: right-leaning news outlets highlight issues of economics and geopolitics; left-leaning news outlets highlight issues of ethics, including discrimination, algorithmic bias and privacy. The report’s lead author, J. Scott Brennen, said AI coverage has been developing against a background of economic disruption in the media industry, with cuts to speciality reporting, including science and technology journalism. "Despite these challenges, mainstream news outlets remain a key space for, and influence on, public discussion.
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2020-01-10): 46 Phillip Sherwell, "U.S. Drone Pilot Haunted by Horrors of Remote Killings; Operator Sickened by Death Count," London Daily Telegraph, October 25, 2013, available at <https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10403313/Confessions-of-a-US-drone-operator-I-watched-him-die.-It-took-a-long-time.html>. [...] 48 Christian Enemark, Armed Drones and the Ethics of War (London: Routledge, 2014), 22. [...] 51 Enemark, Armed Drones and the Ethics of War, 25.
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2024-10-09): - ^ Henderson, Cameron (April 18, 2024). "History made as US military conducts first ever human vs AI dogfight". Retrieved April 20, 2024. - ^ Revell, Eric (April 19, 2024). "Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight". Fox Business. Retrieved April 20, 2024. [...] - ^ "DARPA Unveils Drone-Slaying War Laser". Fast Company. March 8, 2012. Retrieved November 21, 2018.
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2024-10-08): (Host) How do you see AI and robotics shaping the future of drones? (Kallenborn) So technology advances hit on all of these aspects of information warfare for both good and bad. So, if we talk about electronic jamming, for example, a significant development is autonomy for drones in general. That is, if a drone doesn’t necessarily require human input, then they don’t really care that much about jamming, right? Similarly, if we talk about GPS satellite information used to help navigation, if you have advanced AI and autonomy that can read and understand the area around them so that they can navigate by themselves without having GPS, then that dependency goes away. Conversely, we can imagine on the other direction as well, where artificial intelligence and robotics may improve some of these capabilities. So say, for example, using . . . combining artificial intelligence to improve electronic jamming capabilities to more effectively attack and defeat swarms. Alternatively, you can imagine swarms incorporating some of those same capabilities. What if a drone has a payload that has a jammer on it, perhaps to attack another swarm to make it more difficult to operate?
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2023-03-09): But the point is sharper than that. Given how much more serious AI safety problems might soon become, one of my biggest concerns right now is crying wolf. If every instance of a Large Language Model being passive-aggressive, sassy, or confidently wrong gets classified as a "dangerous alignment failure," for which the only acceptable remedy is to remove the models from public access … well then, won’t the public extremely quickly learn to roll its eyes, and see "AI safety" as just a codeword for "elitist scolds who want to take these world-changing new toys away from us, reserving them for their own exclusive use, because they think the public is too stupid to question anything an AI says"? [...] This is why I demur whenever I’m asked to assent to someone’s detailed AI scenario for the coming decades, whether of the utopian or the dystopian or the we-all-instantly-die-by-nanobots variety—no matter how many hours of confident argumentation the person gives me for why each possible loophole in their scenario is sufficiently improbable to change its gist. I still feel like Turing said it best in 1950, in the last line of Computing Machinery and Intelligence: "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
Claim: Media outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Independent, reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator in a simulation. (The Telegraph, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2018-06-05): Artificial intelligence is everywhere. As a tinny voice in each phone, powering GPS, determining what appears on social media feeds, and rebelling on movie screens, artificial intelligence (AI) is a now-integral part of daily life. For an industry that has and will continue to have major potential effects on the economy through job loss and creation, huge investments, and transformation of productivity, there remains a cultural lack of understanding about the realities of AI. Scanning the news, it is clear that people are afraid and uncertain about this robotic revolution, continually talking about an oncoming technological singularity in which AI will reach hyper-intelligence, create more and more AI, and eventually take over the world. Paired with this is the expectation that AI will be human only to a malicious extent, and must therefore be controlled and restricted. In talking to Siri though, it is clear that this apocalypse is fictional at best and far off at worst. As created and evidenced by a malnourished representation of robots and other easily understandable notions of AI in popular fiction, there is a dearth in public consciousness about the possibilities and realities of artificial intelligence. [...] Orr, Lucy. "I Love You. I Will Kill You! I Want to Make Love to You: The Evolution of AI in Pop Culture." The Register®, Situation Publishing, 29 Jan. 2016, www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/29/ai_in_tv_film_books_games/. [...] Titcomb, James. "Stephen Hawking Says Artificial Intelligence Could Be Humanity’s Greatest Disaster." The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 19 Oct. 2016, www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/10/19/stephen-hawking-says-artificial-intelligence-could-be-humanitys/.