The Threat of Artificial Intelligence

More than 1,000 technology leaders signed an open letter urging that companies pause development on advanced artificial intelligence systems until “we are confident that their effects will be beneficial and their risks will be manageable.” What use could healthcare have for something that gives random information, can’t keep a…
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There’s an old saying: Be careful what you wish for. It could come back to bite you. There are many examples of this in history that should give us pause whenever we are faced with a crisis causing fear and confusion, times not unlike our own when the masses are demanding relief from those who populate the hallowed halls of…
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Cristian Terhes, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Christian Democratic National Peasants’ Party, has described the European Union’s push for cross-border digital IDs as another move towards the “Chinafication” of the bloc. Although bureaucrats in Brussels have insisted that the measure is in the interests of…
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Russian media magnate Dmitry Itskov is heading “Avatar,” a tremendously ambitious and far-reaching multidisciplinary research project that aims to achieve so-called “immortality” in humans within the next three decades. He plans to do it by terrifying transhumanism: housing human brains in progressively more disembodied vehicles, first…
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“As a scientist, I wanted to see exactly what AI can offer people romantically,” the author writes. At the beginning of the year, ChatGPT took over my virtual communication network’s feed. I was inundated with people showcasing the artificial intelligence-fueled chatbot’s capability to write in a way that would save time on their…
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Investigative reporter Millie Weaver warned that artificial intelligence (AI) is the greatest threat to humanity. “AI is the greatest threat to humanity right now,” she said during her Feb. 10 appearance on The Pete Santilli Show. Weaver added that most Americans do not realize that their own devices are spying on them and…
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The firm ElevenLabs, maker of the Prime Voice artificial intelligence voice cloner, is currently under fire as trolls have flooded social media with audio deep fakes, featuring celebrity voices making racist statements and calling for violence using its tool. The startup, which recently released the tool that allows people to…
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As part of the World Government Summit held in Dubai, conference organizers presented the “Government in 2071” initiative — a roadmap for government interactions with “citizens and stakeholders” in a dramatically shifting dystopian future impacted by automation, robotics and climate change. Convened from Feb. 13-15 under the slogan…
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Due to a company called Eleven Labs, it is now possible to clone almost any voice in minutes, then feed that voice a text block that will be pronounced / performed in that AI voice. The Eleven Labs voice synthesis model is so advanced that it “reads” (pronounces) written text in a way that is almost indiscernible from a human performance.…
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At some point in the probably sooner-rather-than-later future, artificial intelligence (AI) robots will become so “smart” and advanced that they develop the capacity to kill off humanity, researchers are warning. Experts from the University of Oxford say that AI robots of the future will, in fact, be able to “kill everyone” if they…
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