Members of AI Fringe Group Arrested for Two Killings

Cultimate Warrior As if the San Francisco Bay Area couldn’t get any weirder, there’s now suspicion that a bizarre AI-enthusiastic group in the region may have inspired a pair of deadly assaults that took place thousands of miles apart. As Open Vallejo reports, two young computer scientists and apparent lovers, identified as 22-year-old Maximillian Snyder and 21-year-old Teresa Youngblut — admirers of the Bay Area-based fringe ideological group known as “Zizians,” who want to speed up AI’s takeover of humanity — were arrested this month for slayings that took place on opposite coasts. Earlier in January, Youngblut was arrested by federal prosecutors on January 24 for the killing of a 44-year-old Border Patrol agent named David Maland in Vermont during a deadly shootout. Snyder, meanwhile, was arrested on January 17 in the NorCal town of Redding on charges related to the stabbing death of Curtis Lind, an 82-year-old landlord. AI Acceler-Hatin-Ism These two seemingly disparate homicides are entwined not only because the people arrested for them had applied for a marriage license in Washington State ahead of time, but also, as Open Vallejo reports, because both youthful scientists seem to have ascribed to Zizianism, a radical — and allegedly violent — offshoot of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Rationalist movement. The name of the group, as that news outlet notes, comes from a LessWrong.com user who went by “Ziz” on the site. As tech writer David Z. Morris explains, Ziz and his compatriots believe that AI will ultimately bring about the destruction of humankind — and…Members of AI Fringe Group Arrested for Two Killings

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