The New Age Militarists
And Their Threat to Our Common Future.
State Department To Use AI To Revoke Visas of Students Who ‘Appear Pro-Hamas’
The effort will comb through social media accounts using AI in a major crackdown on the speech of foreign students.
Modern Times and Ancient Truths
Today, the Little Tramp, has been replaced by big Trump and his sidekick, Elon Musk, owners and operators of the new AI Digital factory Internet system, posing as saviors of…
China’s Shocking DeepSeek AI Pops US Big Tech Monopoly Bubble
Chinese AI company DeepSeek shocked the West with a groundbreaking open-source artificial intelligence model that beats huge Silicon Valley Big Tech monopolies. Is the US stock market bubble popping?
Yanis Varoufakis on Cloud Capital vs AI: DeepSeek, Technofeudalism, Capitalism and the New Cold War
The gist of DeepSeek's arrival on the AI scene and the carnage in the American stock exchanges is a sudden transition from proprietary to open source technology.
The US National Security State Is Here to Make AI Even Less Transparent and Accountable
As the US national security state attempts to leverage powerful commercial AI to give it an edge, there are a number of questions that remain unanswered about how much that…
EFF & 140 Other Organizations Call for an End to AI Use in Immigration Decisions
Even though AI is unproven in its efficacy, DHS has frenetically incorporated AI into many of its functions.
AI, Guaranteed Income and the ‘Which Way Is Up?’ Problem Afflicting Our Elites
By Dean Baker / Beat the Press Leading media outlets like The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker have about as much concern for intellectual consistency as…
Philosopher Kings or New-Age Militarists?
Silicon Valley and the Rush Toward Automated Warfare.
Stanford University Team Issues Apology Over Allegations of Copying Chinese Project for AI Model
Undergraduate developers admit a project developed by Tsinghua University and ModelBest is “very similar.”
Why Wall Street Wants You to Fear AI
By Les Leopold / Substack Goldman Sachs, the infamous Wall Street “vampire squid” (aptly so dubbed by Matt Taibbi), wants to scare the hell out of us. It reports that…
Congress Should Just Say No to NO FAKES
By Corynne McSherry / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) There is a lot of anxiety around the use of generative artificial intelligence, some of it justified. But it seems like Congress…
IDF Allowed 100 Civilian Deaths for Every Hamas Official Targeted by Error-Prone AI System
"The IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option," an Israeli intelligence officer said. "It's much easier to bomb a family's home. The system is built to…
Whitney Webb: Manufacturing Consent — The Border Fiasco and the “Smart Wall”
The political response to the crisis at the southern border continues to advance the bipartisan “smart wall,” having been backed by Trump and Biden alike. This bipartisan consensus reaches far…
‘Emergent’ AI Behavior and Human Destiny
What Happens When Killer Robots Start Communicating with Each Other?