Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a 21-year-old Seattle woman accused of fatally shooting a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a January traffic stop in Vermont, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

A federal grand jury in the District of Vermont returned a four-count superseding indictment charging Teresa Youngblut with the murder of a federal law enforcement officer, the assault of two additional agents with a deadly weapon, and related firearms offenses.

Youngblut is part of the “Zizians,” whose members practice strict veganism, “unihemispheric sleep” deprivation, and abandonment of conventional careers — embrace an extreme interpretation of the AI thought experiment known as Roko’s Basilisk, which posits that a future superintelligent AI could punish those who fa

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