The same person who unleashed sophisticated generative AI on the world in late 2022, is backing a San Francisco start-up bent on gene-editing human embryos.
Tag: technology
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THE GEOPOLITICS OF BITCOIN HITTING HOME IN 2025
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HUMANOIDS, FROM CURVY TO HULKISH
Humanoid robots aren’t being developed to simply act as sophisticated tools or ultimate smart appliances for human consumers.
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JAILED FOR GENE-EDITING HUMAN EMBRYOS? WOOPS, NEVERMIND
That widespread science condemnation and jailing of a Chinese scientist for editing twin human embryos in 2017?
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THE LATEST FALLING CLIMATE CHANGE STAR: BILL GATES
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HUMAN OBSOLESCENCE HITTING HOME
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: PARASITE AI COMPANIES CONTINUE BLEEDING GEN Z
Whether by scraping their content and data without compensation, or by replacing them on entry rungs in the work world, AI companies are accelerating the exploitation and functional destruction of young workers.
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HUMILITY VS. ‘GREAT RESPONSIBILITY’: ASI AND THE STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES
Artificial Super Intelligence? Don’t go there. That’s the message signed by hundreds of professionals in the AI tech industries and elsewhere.
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GENE-EDITING PROFIT AND GLORY MASKED AS CONSERVATION
This past week several prominent nature conservation groups gave their stamp of approval to something that contradicts natural conservation: gene editing plants and animals.