The problem with marketing and selling in a more historically normal fashion—by convincing people a product or service will benefit them in some appreciable and obvious way—is that much of what is being invented via sophisticated AI and genetics is controversial, when viewed in the cold light of reason.
Tag: AI
AI SURVEILLANCE AND TRANSHUMAN GOD QUESTING PART OF DEMOCRAT CLOSING ARGUMENT IN ELECTION 2024
It looks like a trailer of a new Hunger Games / Mad Max spinoff. In a dystopian future, a group (of whites only!) sits around a hobo fire in the middle of a destroyed city.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PUSHES AI FOR MILITARY, SURVEILLANCE
The White House has ordered military and national security agencies to speed their adoption of the most powerful cutting-edge AI systems, including for use in lethal force, according to a new memo sketching out national security plans, Bloomberg reported.
COURT BLOCKS CALIFORNIA’S POLITICAL DEEPFAKE BAN
Just ahead of this year’s election, a federal judge in California has quashed that state’s new law banning digitally created deepfake images and videos that include falsehoods about candidates for public office.
U.K. REGULATORS WILL PROBE GOOGLE ANTHROPIC INVESTMENT, WHILE CO-FOUNDER WARNS AI MAY OUTSMART US WITHIN TWO YEARS
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI will save us, maybe starting as soon as 2026.
BAIN, OPENAI BROADEN PARTNERSHIP
OpenAI and business services firm Bain & Co. are expanding their partnership to sell OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT, to Bain’s clients, The Wall Street Journal reported.
A NEW AI CHECKS EXISTING DRUGS FOR NEW PURPOSES
AI already is busy discovering new drugs. Now researchers at Harvard Medical School have trained one to look back through existing drugs to see which might be effective against illnesses they weren’t designed to treat.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: ULEZ AND DIGITAL PASSPORTS COMING FOR EVERY BRITISH LOCALE, GENE EDITING RAMP-UP IN EUROPE, AND AI SPYING IN U.S. GETTING WORSE
From arresting and jailing citizens for posting objections to immigration policies, to squeezing average people out of car ownership, to pushing harder for dystopian tracking medical passports, Britain continues to single handedly offer itself as the world’s “Great Reset” test tube.
WHAT WE SAID: FORMER OPENAI EMPLOYEE ARGUES COMPANY IS DESTROYING THE INTERNET, AND THOUSANDS OF ARTISTS SIGN STATEMENT AGAINST AI IP THEFT
A new blog post by Suchir Balaji, a former researcher at OpenAI, is gaining notice by The New York Times, Gizmodo and other general and tech-focused news outlets.
AN AI FOR DEI
A new AI is ready to help consumer product companies improve diversity in their advertising just as those companies are caving to pressures to forsake their inclusion initiatives.









