Wednesday May 31, 2023
May 31, 2023: AI extinction risk, China meeting snub, and alleged spy whale
Facts & Spins for May 31, 2023 Top Stories: A group of experts warn AI could lead to extinction, several GOP members consider ousting House Speaker McCarthy, China declines a US request for a defense chiefs meeting, Moscow and Kyiv are targeted in an exchange of drone attacks, El Salvador’s former president is sentenced for negotiating with gangs, blood-testing start-up Theranos’s founder begins her prison sentence, a transgender-critical professor’s speech is interrupted by protesters at Oxford, a top Chinese scientist says the COVID lab leak theory shouldn’t be ruled out, Nepal shelves plans to move its Everest base camp, and an alleged Russian spy whale reappears off Sweden’s coast.