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Tag: technology
POLLUTED MOTIVES: THE LATEST IN GREEN ENERGY ‘SYNTHETIC SELLS’ AND ABSURDITIES
Planting trees to support environmental sustainability and sequester carbon naturally, like so much else, has been completely subverted by what we have long termed “the synthetic sell.”
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: LAB GROWN HUMANS FOR BODY PARTS, AND GENE EDITING RICE FOR HEART “HEALTH”
Humans grown from embryonic stem cells, incubated in artificial wombs, created for the purpose of supplying research flesh, or organs for transplants, is the latest “science” being advocated by MIT.Meanwhile, gene editing is coming for one of the most basic staple crops on earth. For more on forecasts of ours that are quickly turning to reality,......
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: THE AGE OF ‘AI ANTI-ABUNDANCE’ IS IN FULL SWING
A breakthrough in creating (gene edited) biological muscle tissue to build flesh robots, and WIRED magazine is growing more concerned about AI white collar job threats…it’s all part of what we’re dubbing the Age of AI Anti-Abundance.
TECH COMPANIES CARRIED OUT ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ SCALE OF IP THEFT, SAYS THE ATLANTIC (WHICH WE HAVE POINTED OUT FOR YEARS)
In several stories this past week, The Atlantic has focused on how AI companies including Meta used a large digital repository file containing thousands of copyrighted books, in order to train its generative AI models.
FROM DENIAL TO ARROGANCE: WORKERS TOLD TO ‘GET OVER’ AI TAKING THEIR JOBS
Legacy media still mostly spouts the lines of tech CEOs (at least the ones who haven’t politically transgressed) concerning both the inevitability and the general gee-whiz awesomeness of AI and fast approaching AGI and ASI.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI MUST BE ALLOWED TO STEAL IP BECAUSE ‘NATIONAL SECURITY’, PLUS MORE HUMAN WORKER OBSOLESCENCE
Tech companies including Meta and OpenAI, who developed generative and now Agentic AI to divert huge profits from human creatives to themselves, have been battling copyright and IP laws in courts for several years now.
COVID JEOPARDY BUBBLES UP AGAIN FOR FAUCI AND ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE
Autopen pardons, a wrongful death lawsuit, and new info concerning U.K. intelligence have all brought COVID back to the front pages this past week.
RAY KURZWEIL GOT IT WRONG: AI AND TECHNOLOGY NOT FOSTERING SMARTER HUMANS
AI, and other general technology advances like smartphones and even the internet, are not making people smarter.
MERGE WITH AI OR BE REPLACED
Humans are being pressured in their work and personal lives to merge with AI in 24/7 “collaborative” existence, in order to avoid obsolescence.