AI
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Military applications at centre of Britain’s plans to be AI superpower
The UK government published its National AI Strategy in mid-September, billed as a “ten-year plan to make Britain a global AI superpower”. Despite the hype, the strategy has so far attracted curiously little comment and interest from the mainstream media. This is a cause for concern because if the government’s proposals bear fruit, they will… Continue reading
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Eric Schmidt Cashes in on Artificial Intelligence Arms Race
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — The United States is leading a new artificial intelligence arms race that could spell the end of humanity. Continue reading
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The iWars Survey: Mapping the IT sector’s involvement in developing autonomous weapons
A new survey by Drone Wars has begun the process of mapping the involvement of information technology corporations in military artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics programmes, an area of rapidly increasing focus for the military. ‘Global Britain in a Competitive Age’, the recently published integrated review of security, defence, development, and foreign policy, highlighted the… Continue reading
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War Mongering for Artificial Intelligence
The ghost of Edward Teller must have been doing the rounds between members of the National Commission on Artificial Intelligence. The father of the hydrogen bomb was never one too bothered by the ethical niggles that came with inventing murderous technology. It was not, for instance, “the scientist’s job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb… Continue reading
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Federal Government Releases Bipartisan Anti-China Plan for Artificial Intelligence
A Washington think tank and Congress issued a bipartisan plan for AI, which utilizes the veneer of technology to formally cast China as the number one obstacle to US hegemony Continue reading
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James Bridle | Videos: The New Dark Age
Internet fibre optic cables around the world trace out the routes of former empires. Imperialism didn’t stop with decolonisation: it just moved up to infrastructure level. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 