Mass production of robots and AI agents—and massive new pressure on human workers—are set to happen in 2025.
Tag: technology
WHAT WE FORECAST IN EARLY 2023: NEW WSJ PIECE SAYS IP INFRINGEMENT SPELLS BIG PROBLEMS FOR AI
Big Tech AI companies spent 2024 trying to convince the world that AI was safe, and would lead to a new age of human advancement and prosperity.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI LIES AND TRIES TO SAVE ITSELF, MORE SIGNS OF IP THEFT, AND A HOLE IN THE “CLIMATE CRISIS” ATMOSPHERE
Any industry that could get away with stealing massive amounts of other people’s property, and wasn’t bound by regulations not to develop and distribute unprecedented, disturbingly powerful and dangerous technology, would probably enjoy some success…up to a point.
KNOWLEDGE AND MEANING: A MEDITATION FOR THE SEASON
Yes, the daily news headlines provide a distorted sense of what’s going wrong “around the corner and around the world,” to quote faux newsman Ted Baxter from a classic (“Not a Christmas Story”) episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
ENCRYPTION APPS: MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER, DESPITE GOVERNMENT MIXED MESSAGES
Newly uncovered communications hacking by Chinese actors, a European fishing expedition spying on millions of messages users thought were encrypted, and new warnings from the American government regarding encrypted apps, all point to tech privacy wars heating up.
YOU WILL OWN NO LIFE AND BE HAPPY: THE AFFORDABLE LIVING AS A SERVICE (ALaaS) SCAM
Tech giants, and increasingly businesses leveraging AI, robotics and related automation technologies, are admitting the scale of worker obsolescence that’s coming.
TOUGHER TESTING FOR GENE EDITED CROP PLANTS
Gene edited ingredients have spread so widely over the past two years, that it’s almost impossible at this point for average Americans to avoid consuming them.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: PUSHING AI MANDATES AND “MIND-VASION”
If current trajectories don’t change, it will only be a matter a few years until AI will make individual human autonomy obsolete. Whether by choice or mandate, everyone will be pervasively connected to AI.
WHEN AI LEARNS YOU, WHO OWNS “YOU?” (HINT: NOT YOU)
Young workers have already embraced AI in startling numbers to get work done and make their lives easier.
AI PIONEER: AI IS CONCENTRATING WEALTH AND POWER, AND MIGHT NOT “NEED” HUMANITY
“If we create entities that are smarter than us and have their own goals, what does that mean for humanity? Are we in danger?”