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.
Tag: technology
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?
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.
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.
AS FORECAST: HUMANS ACTING AS DATA NODES FOR AI
There are more signs that AI is being developed via parasitic relationships with human “hosts.” It’s something we have long warned and forecast.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: ELITES BUY ACTIVIST JOURNALISM, AND AI THAT WILL PUT YOU ON THEIR UBI STRING
The same Federal regulators currently harassing Elon Musk for his 2022 acquisition of Twitter and revamping the platform into X to actually promote free speech, just fast-tracked an American radio takeover by George Soros.
UN WANTS TO HANDLE AI (LIKE IT HANDLES WORLD CONFLICT)
The UN wants to create a permanent body to regulate AI development. But their September 2024 whitepaper “Governing AI For Humanity” mostly succeeds in showing why their elite-connected biases render them incapable of dealing with fast-advancing AI’s most serious dangers.
ROBOTICS AND AI AUTOMATION VS. LONGSHOREMEN’S UNION
Automation: it’s a major reason why a national strike by America’s unionized dock workers may be about to bring the country to a supply chain standstill.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: ACTIVISM COMING FOR GENE EDITED FOODS, PLUS MORE MEDIA SHILLING FOR 15 MINUTE CITIES
It likely won’t change the speed at which governments and Big Agriculture are mainlining gene edited foods into world consumption, but eco activists took a symbolic stand against the tide in Italy last week.
GHOST MEMES NOW ILLEGAL
A decade ago, a years-long battle was waged over what the Federal government labeled "ghost guns" (for more on that, see Jessica Solce’s excellent documentary Death Athletic.)