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Pokémon is marking its 30th anniversary with celebrations that include special trading card releases. Coverage of the anniversary products is already drawing scrutiny, with Wargamer calling one card in the Celebration Classic Collection reprint set the least valuable of the lineup, as fans and outlets assess what the anniversary releases actually offer collectors.
- 2AI control problem echoes the film WarGames, researchers warn▼The ‘War Games’ problem: Computer science has long understood what it takes to keep AI under control
A new commentary argues that computer science has understood for decades how to keep powerful automated systems under human control, yet current AI development risks repeating the scenario depicted in the 1983 film WarGames, where a machine is given authority it should never have had. Drawing on established ideas like the control problem, the piece says the tools for keeping AI in check already exist, but commercial pressure to deploy systems quickly means they are often not applied, leaving society exposed to preventable risks.