The Threat of Artificial Intelligence

Roblox is one of the most popular game platforms, with millions of users accessing it every day. Like more and more apps and online networks, the company's latest security measure now requires every user, everywhere, to pass a facial age estimation test before the chat can be used. The policy, enforced through a third-party company…
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Speed is prioritized over critical review: AI-generated models are intended to justify interventions even before they can be meaningfully questioned. The US military is funding artificial intelligence (AI) systems designed to drastically accelerate the modelling of viral outbreaks – a process that normally takes weeks, to be…
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AI-powered surveillance is shifting from hunting for suspects to mapping everyday life, changing everyday mobility into a stream of behavioural data. Police forces across the UK are experimenting with artificial intelligence that can automatically monitor and categorize the movements of motorists by using the country's extensive…
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Readers will know that I have had my concerns about the pervasive influence of AI on all aspects of our lives. My main concern relates to these two characteristics of AI in combination: People confuse algorithmic complexity – and the ability to handle large amounts of data – for competence, creativity or even “truth”. Put simply,…
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In his previous writings, Mark Keenan, researcher at Engelhart Commodity Trading Partners (ECTP) exposed the machinery of technocratic control – climate orthodoxy, debt economics, and centralized data governance. But those were only the outer mechanisms. Now the frontier is shifting inward. The question is no longer merely “How will they…
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AI is now embedded in our infrastructure, our institutions of governance and our social lives. America is facing a growing crisis that is unfolding before our eyes and is likely to intensify in the years ahead. Strangely, this issue receives little objective attention in mainstream media. Instead, we are reassured that this new…
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Seven-time bestselling financial author Jim Rickards predicted in July 2023 (when gold was trading in the $1,600 range) that the yellow metal would experience a major rally. He was right. In his new book Money GPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy Rickards argues that AI-caused disasters can occur in everything from finance…
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“Utopians often produce evil because their movement’s aspirations become paramount—that is, more important than avoiding acts ‘traditionally perceived as immoral.’ If enough people follow Istvan on the transhuman roller coaster, people could eventually get hurt.” “I’m not afraid of dying. I just don’t want to be there when it occurs.”…
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