Sam Altman of OpenAI was all over the news this past week, which is not unusual these days.
Tag: technology
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI DEGRADING HUMAN COGNITION, AND A SETBACK FOR THE “CENSORSHIP INDUSTRY”
A new research paper featured in Nature Human Behavior says a novel cognitive mode for humans is emerging, due to AI technology.
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MIND-VASION: INDOCTRINATION GOING FROM OUTSIDE-IN, TO INSIDE-OUT
Generative AI and sophisticated new brain targeting technologies, together with defeats suffered by authoritarian elites in molding opinions of citizens, is setting the stage for a different species of mind manipulation.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: GENE-EDITED PLANTS AND ANIMALS SET TO EXPLODE, AND SMART GLASSES THAT STRIP PRIVACY
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.
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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.
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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.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
A new Department of Defense (DoD) directive issued in late September very arguably runs afoul of longstanding prohibitions on the U.S. military being used in domestic operations and surveillance against American citizens.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: FRIENDLY ROBOTS TAKING YOUR JOB, AND GENTECH SELECTING HIGH IQ BABIES
Will it make workers feel better, having their job eliminated by an unfailingly courteous robot co-worker?
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AMERICAN TAXPAYERS FUELING CHINA MILITARY INNOVATION, AND EV SCHOOL BUSES BREAKING DOWN ACROSS U.S.
American universities are the best in the world. Unfortunately, research at many of them is directly helping China advance its military technology and military related innovations.
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NEEDED: A NATURAL HUMAN REVOLUTION
In a 10 October X post, Peter Diamandis, co-founder of Singularity University and protege of preeminent transhumanist Ray Kurzweil, endorsed good AI fighting bad AI as the only way humanity would be protected in the future.