The Threat of Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk sees a billion-dollar market for his humanoid robot Optimus by 2030. Apollo from Apptronik is another market entrant. Others will follow. The combination of insanely “intelligent” AI with enhanced dexterity and mobility will replace human labour in production. Worse still: robots will soon manufacture and repair themselves. Mass…
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Meta AI's recent advances in converting brain activity into text are causing a stir. The technology, based on non-invasive techniques such as magnetoencephalography (MEG), promises to reconstruct typed sentences with up to 80% accuracy. But while this innovation is being hailed as groundbreaking, it raises profound ethical and societal…
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During a press conference with Silicon Valley luminaries during his second day in office, President Donald Trump threw his political support behind a $500 billion private-sector artificial intelligence (AI) project called Stargate. The joint venture between OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank and others will fund infrastructure for AI. Among…
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A recent study conducted by researchers at Fudan University in Shanghai, China has revealed that two widely used large language models (LLMs) can autonomously clone themselves. The study, published on Dec. 9, 2024, in the preprint database arXiv, tested two artificial intelligence models – Meta's Llama31-70B-Instruct and Alibaba's…
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The World Economic Forum has predicted that 41 percent of companies worldwide will soon replace their human workforces with artificial intelligence. According to the WEF’s “Future of Jobs” report for 2025, nearly half of jobs traditionally performed by humans will become automated by AI by the year 2030. The report, released…
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In a groundbreaking announcement, Google has revealed its latest quantum computing achievement: the quantum chip Willow, which is said to have performed in under five minutes a computational task that would take today's fastest supercomputers an estimated 10 septillion years to complete. While the results have been met with both…
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The European Parliament has taken another step to control the flow of information online by deciding to set up a new committee dedicated to combating foreign interference and disinformation. The initiative, called the European Democracy Shield, is designed to protect democratic processes but raises significant concerns about…
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Anduril, based in Costa Mesa, makes AI-powered drones, missiles, and radar systems, including surveillance towers, Sentry systems, currently used at US military bases worldwide as well as the US-Mexico border and on the British coastline to detect migrants on boats. On December 3rd, they received a three-year contract with the Pentagon…
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China has opened the world's first AI hospital, and the researchers behind the project claim that robot doctors working at the facility can treat thousands of virtual patients per day using large language models (LLMs). Researchers believe that the virtual facility, which will be used for training doctors in a simulated environment…
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