Judgment · 25 September 2026

Two headlines this morning contradict each other. Don’t forward either.

One says slow it down. The other says there is a 0% chance the world ends in 2030. Our job is not to pick a side. It is to stop the screenshot.

Alejandro Carmona · Nopubly · 25 September 2026

Today’s problem is not a photo. It is two sentences that will land in the same WhatsApp group before lunch.

El Mundo leads with Román Orús, the only Spaniard among the forty independent experts on the UN’s International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence. The headline says he wants to “slow it down” and quotes him: “We do not want an artificial intelligence that supervises humanity.” That is as far as a headline goes. What he is joining, what he proposes, and the caveats are in El Mundo’s piece. We are not going to rewrite it.

The same morning, El Confidencial headlines Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive: “There is a 0% chance that 2030 is the end of the world.” We are not turning that headline into an article of ours either. If you want the interview, read it there.

Nopubly is not picking a side. We were not in the panel and we were not in the room. If you want the fact nailed down, it lives at the newsroom that published it. The link is in this paragraph and again at the bottom.

Both lines can stand, and you still should not forward them

“Slow down” and “the world does not end in 2030” are not answers to the same question. One is about what we want a system to do: not supervise people. The other is about an apocalypse with a date, and it puts a zero on it. Side by side in a group chat, they become a vote. You are either for slowing down or you are for Nvidia. Neither newsroom asked for that. The thumb that forwards the screenshot did.

A headline is a hook. It drops the method, the full subject, and the doubt. Paste it without the link and the group argues about a sentence it has not read. Add a photo — Orús, Huang, a giant zero — and you are no longer talking about the story. You are talking about an image you have not checked. For a face we do have a tool, the scanner. It does not decide who is right at the UN.

What to do with the message, in this order

• If you only got the headline, ask for the link or don’t reply. Forwarding the sentence alone makes a shorter version of what was said. Shorter, yes. Truer, no.
• If it comes with a photo or a voice note “from the UN” or “from Nvidia,” don’t pass it on. A WhatsApp capture is not the press conference: the app compresses, crops, and sometimes pastes that image onto another. If it is a face and you are still unsure, put it through the scanner. It is built for photographs and faces. It returns a verdict — real, AI-made, or unclear — and a percentage. Free, no account. It is not a court. A meme, a chart, or a landscape can fool it.
• If someone tells you to spread it “before they delete it,” to sign, to pay, or to install something “to see the document,” this is no longer about artificial intelligence. It is the hook. It does not matter who is right about 2030. Don’t open the file and don’t forward it.

Three questions before you hit the arrow

• Who sent it? A stranger, a new number, or a cousin who never talks about the UN: slow down.
• What are they asking you to do? Forward, get angry, pay, install. If there is an order, the headline is the least of it.
• Can you open the source in thirty seconds? If you can’t, don’t opine in the group. The group can wait for the real link.

What this URL is not

It is not a summary of El Mundo or El Confidencial. Rewriting their story and signing it as Nopubly would be taking their work and changing the name. Our front page is still an index: every headline there links to the publisher, with the date in view. This address is something else. It is one day’s judgment, signed, so you know what to do with what lands on your phone.

It is also not a forecast. We did not measure the zero percent. We do not have a seat on the UN panel. Anyone who says otherwise in our name is making it up.

If the device is also acting up

A frightening headline and an attachment are an old pair. If the browser opens by itself, an antivirus you don’t remember appears, or the phone won’t let you close windows, drop the photo and drop the debate. That is not the summit. That is a compromised device. Don’t scan the image: open the panel, buy minutes, and a technician comes in remotely — phone, tablet, or computer — without you leaving home.

If you only want to train your eye on faces that are not in your group, the Real-or-AI challenge is for that. Not for settling a UN argument.

In thirty seconds

Don’t forward the naked headline. If it comes with a face, scan it before you pass it on. If they want speed, money, or an install, open nothing. If the phone misbehaves, open the minutes panel. Tomorrow at 8:00 there will be another piece. Today’s is this: don’t pick a side from a screenshot.

Sources

• El Mundo, 25 September 2026. Román Orús and the UN International Scientific Panel on AI. The headline’s sentence is theirs.
• El Confidencial, 25 September 2026. The headline carries Jensen Huang’s line about 2030. The 0% is not a Nopubly calculation.

Questions

Is Nopubly saying AI should be slowed down?

No. That line is from Román Orús, as quoted by El Mundo. The opposing line is an El Confidencial headline about Jensen Huang. Our judgment is: do not forward either without the publisher’s link.

Did Nopubly calculate the 0%?

No. It is the phrase in El Confidencial’s headline. We did not measure it and we do not adopt it as a forecast.

What if the photo of the expert or the executive is fake?

If it is a face, the Nopubly scanner gives a second opinion on the image. It does not replace the newsroom that reported the story, and it does not decide who is right.