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Alicia Navarros mother pleaded for the public to move on from her long-missing teen daughter’s sudden reappearance warning that the search for answers has taken a turn for the dangerous.”

Lets focus that my daughter is alive. This is a miracle, mom Jessica Nuez wrote Sunday night alongside an emotional video plea posted to her Finding Alicia Facebook page.

She expressed appreciation for everyone who has supported her since 2019, when her daughter who walked into a Montana police station last week first went missing days before her 15th birthday.

I could never have kept going without all of your love, help and well wishes. I can’t even put into words the amount of gratitude I have for you all, Nuez says haltingly.

But now that we know Alicia is alive, I have to ask one more favor of you. I know you want answers and I do, too. But the publics search for answers has taken a turn for the dangerous, she continues. Alicia Navarros mother Jessica Nuez addressed the public on Facebook.Facebook / Jessica Nunez Navarro speaking to police over a video call after showing up years after going missing.Glendale Police Department

I have been harassed, my family has been attacked all over the internet — the public has gone from trying to help Alicia to doing things like trying to show up to her house and putting her safety in jeopardy, Nuez says.

So I beg you, please no more TikToks, no more reaching out to Alicia or to me with your speculation or questions or assumptions. This is not a movie, this is our life, this is my daughter, she says.

I love her more than anything in the world, and I think I have shown you that, the disconsolate-looking mom adds. Theres an ongoing investigation and Im begging you to move on. Alicia Navarro and her mother Jessica have ‘spoken briefly’ but not gotten ‘back together’ since her surprise reappearance in Montana, family PI says.Facebook / Finding Alicia Navarro’s mother Jessica before Navarro was found after going missing for four years.Facebook / Finding Alicia

Nuez’s plea comes after Navarros neighbors told The Post that the young woman allegedly fought with a man she had been living with in Havre, a city about 40 miles from the Canadian border, and threatened to go back.

Navarro, who willfully left her home in Glendale, Arizona, in 2019, walked into the local police precinct the day before the argument to request that she be taken off the missing persons list so she could get a drivers license and could begin living a normal life, according to authorities.

It was unclear how long she’d been living in the Havre apartment, but neighbor Garrett Smith, 22, told The Post that Navarro and a man in his 20s have been residents since he moved in about a year ago. According to officials, Navarro was reportedly found in a Montana town that is located close to the U.S.-Canadian border. Officials said Alicia is asking for privacy at this time. FOX 10

Police confirmed that a man was detained and questioned Wednesday at the same apartment complex, although it is unclear whether it was the same person with whom Navarro had been living with.

Navarro, who has been described as autistic but high-functioning, left behind a note when she left her home that read: I ran away. I will be back. I swear. Im sorry.

Navarro is still being considered a victim, police previously said, while the familys private investigators exclusively told The Post last week that she had only spoken briefly to her mother, while her intentions regarding whether she planned to return home were unclear. 

She told police she has not been hurt, was not being held against her will and could come and go as she pleases.

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‘Dangerous proposition’: Top scientists warn of out-of-control AI

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Yoshua Bengio (L) and Max Tegmark (R) discuss the development of artificial general intelligence during a live podcast recording of CNBC’s “Beyond The Valley” in Davos, Switzerland in January 2025.

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Artificial general intelligence built like “agents” could prove dangerous as its creators might lose control of the system, two of of the world’s most prominent AI scientists told CNBC.

In the latest episode of CNBC’s “Beyond The Valley” podcast released on Tuesday, Max Tegmark, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the President of the Future of Life Institute, and Yoshua Bengio, dubbed one of the “godfathers of AI” and a professor at the Université de Montréal, spoke about their concerns about artificial general intelligence, or AGI. The term broadly refers to AI systems that are smarter than humans.

Their fears stem from the world’s biggest firms now talking about “AI agents” or “agentic AI” — which companies claim will allow AI chatbots to act like assistants or agents and assist in work and everyday life. Industry estimates vary on when AGI will come into existence.

With that concept comes the idea that AI systems could have some “agency” and thoughts of their own, according to Bengio.

“Researchers in AI have been inspired by human intelligence to build machine intelligence, and, in humans, there’s a mix of both the ability to understand the world like pure intelligence and the agentic behavior, meaning … to use your knowledge to achieve goals,” Bengio told CNBC’s “Beyond The Valley.”

“Right now, this is how we’re building AGI: we are trying to make them agents that understand a lot about the world, and then can act accordingly. But this is actually a very dangerous proposition.”

Bengio added that pursuing this approach would be like “creating a new species or a new intelligent entity on this planet” and “not knowing if they’re going to behave in ways that agree with our needs.”

“So instead, we can consider, what are the scenarios in which things go badly and they all rely on agency? In other words, it is because the AI has its own goals that we could be in trouble.”

The idea of self-preservation could also kick in, as AI gets even smarter, Bengio said.

“Do we want to be in competition with entities that are smarter than us? It’s not a very reassuring gamble, right? So we have to understand how self-preservation can emerge as a goal in AI.”

AI tools the key

For MIT’s Tegmark, the key lies in so-called “tool AI” — systems that are created for a specific, narrowly-defined purpose, but that don’t have to be agents.

Tegmark said a tool AI could be a system that tells you how to cure cancer, or something that possesses “some agency” like a self-driving car “where you can prove or get some really high, really reliable guarantees that you’re still going to be able to control it.”

“I think, on an optimistic note here, we can have almost everything that we’re excited about with AI … if we simply insist on having some basic safety standards before people can sell powerful AI systems,” Tegmark said.

“They have to demonstrate that we can keep them under control. Then the industry will innovate rapidly to figure out how to do that better.”

Tegmark’s Future of Life Institute in 2023 called for a pause to the development of AI systems that can compete with human-level intelligence. While that has not happened, Tegmark said people are talking about the topic, and now it is time to take action to figure out how to put guardrails in place to control AGI.

“So at least now a lot of people are talking the talk. We have to see if we can get them to walk the walk,” Tegmark told CNBC’s “Beyond The Valley.”

“It’s clearly insane for us humans to build something way smarter than us before we figured out how to control it.”

There are several views on when AGI will arrive, partly driven by varying definitions.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said his company knows how to build AGI and said it will arrive sooner than people think, though he downplayed the impact of the technology.

“My guess is we will hit AGI sooner than most people in the world think and it will matter much less,” Altman said in December.

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The Winklevoss brothers are reportedly considering another IPO for Gemini after deciding not to pursue a public listing in 2021.

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There’s finally(!) an automatic fix to restart failed EV charging sessions

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The ChargeX Consortium has figured out how to automatically restart failed EV charging sessions at fast chargers so drivers don’t have to.

Every EV driver has been there. You plug in, walk away to grab food or run errands, and expect your battery to be juicing up at a DC fast charger, only to return and realize nothing happened. Maybe the session failed, or maybe the charger glitched. Either way, you’re stuck unplugging, plugging back in, and now it’s going to take twice as long to charge.

The ChargeX Consortium (National Charging Experience Consortium), which is made up of researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Idaho National Laboratory (INL), and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), along with industry stakeholders, has come up with a smart fix for one of the most frustrating parts of public EV charging: failed sessions.

Its new report highlights the benefits of what it calls “seamless retry” – a hands-free tech solution that automatically restarts failed charging attempts. In other words, the driver no longer needs to physically unplug and replug the charging connector when a charging session fails.

The consortium’s new tech is designed specifically for DC fast charging. The “novel mechanism” automatically resets both the EV and the charger, then restarts the session in the background, so drivers don’t have to return to the car – or even have to think about it.

Ed Watt, a researcher at NREL and lead author of the “Recommended Practice Seamless Retry for Electric Vehicle Charging” report, said, “With a seamless retry mechanism in place, an EV driver at a retail center can plug in a charging connector, provide user input data, leave to shop, and feel confident that they will return to a charged vehicle.” (Click on the report link to see the specifics of how the novel mechanism works.)

The researchers didn’t just focus on the perks of seamless retry – they also looked at potential downsides. One concern was the extra time it might take for the system to restart a failed session, which could leave drivers frustrated. To tackle that, the consortium suggests that the EV industry provide transparency in the form of real-time status updates, insights into what went wrong, and recommendations based on the type of charging failure and number of attempts made.

Going forward, as the user experience becomes clearer, more work will fine-tune seamless retry. The ChargeX Consortium will keep refining the system – developing smarter, more targeted retry methods, ironing out implementation details, and running verification tests to make sure everything works seamlessly in the real world.

Read more: The latest US EV sales and charger growth – in numbers


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