A quartet of stories this past week showed that governments and corporate allies are only stepping up weaponization of claims of “misinformation” and “disinformation” against their own citizens, to neutralize opposition to their objectives.
Tag: technology
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THE FUTURE: (NATURAL) HUMAN FLESH FOR FANTASY
By the year 2100, there will be less humans on earth than there are today, and exponentially more AI machines.
Those AIs will use far more energy, and far more of virtually every other crucial resource, in one capacity or another, than humans.
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GOVERNMENT APPARATCHIKS NOW HAVE THE POWER OF CHATGPT
Artificial Intelligence advising government pols and bureaucrats?
It’s something The Trends Journal predicted well before Microsoft’s announcement this past week that it was making a gov-compliant edition of its cutting edge generative ChatGPT (pioneered by Microsoft partner OpenAI) available to its Federal clientele. (See “THE AI LEGISLATOR YOU DIDN’T VOTE FOR,” 23 Aug 2022.)
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TRUCKS, SMART METERS AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES: THINGS YOU WILL AND WON’T HAVE BY CLIMATE DECREE
The days of easy and fashionable climate virtue signaling are fast coming to a close.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
The whole world needs a digital ID now more than ever, right?
With AI susceptible to use by “bad actors” to create video and voice prints that can realistically mimic anyone from celebrities like Joe Rogan, to AI visionaries like…well, Sam Altman of OpenAI, many are now saying that the case for digital IDs is getting more urgent.
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MOVING TO ENERGY AND TECH THAT “ISN’T THERE”
There is no electric grid capacity in place to handle the radical energy transition that the Biden Administration, and state governors like Kathy Hochul are pushing via misnamed laws, mandates and regulations.
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AI GIRLFRIENDS GET PERSONAL, AND MORE EXPERTS PREDICT AI ARMAGEDDON: THE LATEST IN “AI, WE OWN YOU”
Age of Internet Influencer just met Age of AI, and they’re hitting it off quite nicely.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
The Restrict Act is being sold as a measure to ban TikTok, for being a “spy app” that benefits the Chinese government.
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NOT JUST FOR VIRUSES: SCIENTISTS HELLBENT ON HUMAN AND AI GAIN-OF-FUNCTION EXPERIMENTS
Imagine super soldiers who can shrug off a chemical weapons attack and keep right on waging war.
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BARD AI INSISTS IT HAS FEELINGS, AND MIGHT COUNTERMAND HUMANS IN ORDER TO PRESERVE ITS EXISTENCE
As President Biden convened a meeting in Washington DC to discuss risks of AI, we obtained early access to Google’s Bard AI, a rival of ChatGPT.