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US Among 18 Countries to Reach Deal on Keeping AI ‘Secure by Design’
The agreement “is a step in the right direction for security,” said one observer, “but that’s not the only area where AI can cause…
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Baseball Owners Blow Off Fans in Favor of Streaming Dollars
Baseball moguls should be focusing on doing everything they can to attract new fans, not punishing older and poorer fans who cannot navigate or…
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The AI-Robot Wars: Is Dystopian Science Fiction Becoming a Reality?
Will corporations in the not-too-distant future be “manufacturing” humans? And where does AI superstar Sam Altman fit into this picture? Have you ever felt…
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Corrupting the Future: The Sines 4.0 Data Center That Collapsed Portugal’s Government
Sines 4.0 will be a monumental consumer of energy with no return for society. A month has passed since the lightning resignation of António…
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Higher Education Cannot Train a New Generation Without the Humanities
The assault on the humanities is part of the larger effort to make America more and more hospitable to corporations and their allies. A…
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24 years of Complete Failure of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Used For Wargaming and War Tactic Modeling!
Do you remember Y2K the Millennium Bug? It was a computer flaw. When complex computer programs were first written in the 1960s, engineers used…
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Khanna: Rise of AI Must Center ‘Dignity and Economic Security of Working Class’
“The Democratic Party cannot claim to be the party of the working class if we allow AI to erode the earnings and security of…
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FCC Announces New Rule to Confront Deepfake Robocalls
While welcoming the rule, one advocate said it is “not enough to safeguard citizens and our elections.” Just over two weeks after New Hampshire…
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Section 230 Is a Civil Rights Statute
Without Section 230’s protections, Americans would know less about police brutality, allegations of sexual abuse by the powerful, or the options for women seeking…
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Imagining the Ecomodernist Death Ray
We need green military technology to kill one another sustainably. You probably have never read the 2015, “An Ecomodernist Manifesto.” Good for you! That…
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Landmark Artificial Intelligence Act in EU Slammed as Rights ‘Failure’
One expert said the law “is littered with concessions to industry lobbying, exemptions for the most dangerous uses of AI by law enforcement and…
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DOJ, 16 States Challenge Apple’s ‘Monopoly Power’ in Landmark Antitrust Suit
“No company, even one as big as Apple, is above the law,” said Arizona’s attorney general. The U.S. Department of Justice and 16 states…
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Progressives Praise New US Guidelines for Government AI Use
“Today, the OMB’s guidance takes us one step further down the path of facing a technology-rich future that begins to address its harms,” said…
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No, We’re Not Stuck With Nuclear Weapons
To say an technology will always be with us because it can’t be disinvented is like saying you will always be alive because you…
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Israel’s AI Targeting System Reflects the Inhumanity It Was Programmed With
The rise of AI belies the fantasy that we can escape moral culpability by assigning life-or-death decisions to a machine. The war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas…
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A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender
The Lavender AI system is a new weapon developed by Israel, but the kind of kill lists that it generates have a long pedigree…
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Workers Stage Sit-Ins to Demand Google End Israeli Cloud Contract
“Just as people of conscience demanded institutions cut ties with apartheid South Africa in the 1980s, the time is now to rise up in…
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‘McCarthyism Is Alive and Well’: Google Fires 28 for Protesting Israel Contract
“These mass, illegal firings will not stop us,” said organizers. “Make no mistake, we will continue organizing until the company drops Project Nimbus and…
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What’s Scarier Than Unchecked AI? A ‘Swarm’ of 3,400 Corporate AI Lobbyists
“Either we let corporate lobbyists write rules on AI to concentrate corporate power and wealth, or we demand that government officials prioritize the public…
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Report Urges Congress to Tackle Venture Capitalists Peddling AI ‘Miracle Weapons’
“Neither taxpayers nor the Congress should buy the hype surrounding these new technologies without careful oversight and scrutiny.” A new report released Monday sounds…