Before handing decisions (even about how to treat individual humans) to AIs, the previous step is to tell the human officials or service representatives to follow rules like AIs. This is already common and we can see how badly it malfunctions.

It appears that YouTube gives gratis advertising to global heating denialism.

*Taliban offer to stand down fighters to restart peace talks with US.*

Unusual heat in a large area of the Pacific Ocean seems to have killed around a million seabirds in 2015. They died because of a shortage of the small fish they eat, one of many consequences of heat in the ocean.

Putin announced a plan to transfer some political power from the presidency to the legislature.

The article calls this a "power grab" but I don't see how he personally could gain any power from this. Although I am not inclined to trust Putin, this seems to be a plan to make sure that his successors as president don't have the same power he has had.