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Predictive Policing Can Reduce Racial Discrimination in Law Enforcement

ByGuest Post

By Pete Mains  In 2020, Santa Cruz, California banned predictive policing and facial recognition technology to the applause of civil liberties groups like the ACLU, NAACP and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Facial recognition technology is invasive, and the case against it rests on moral rather than technical grounds. Predictive policing, less widely understood, simply…

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How an AI Tool Can Distinguish Between a Conspiracy Theory and a True Conspiracy

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Timothy R. Tangherlini, University of California, Berkeley The audio on the otherwise shaky body camera footage is unusually clear. As police officers search a handcuffed man who moments before had fired a shot inside a pizza parlor, an officer asks him why he was there. The man says to investigate a pedophile ring. Incredulous, the…

Elon Musk Shows Off State of the Art Neuralink Hardware—on Pigs
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Elon Musk Shows Off State of the Art Neuralink Hardware—on Pigs

ByJack Stocker

Neuralink, founded by Elon Musk in 2016 to work on innovation in neurological interfacing with technology, recently livestreamed a showcase of their groundbreaking integration concepts via the power of pork. Neural links are nothing new. They’ve been around since 2006, but Musk’s company is working to expand it to new and improved levels. One level…

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Tech Expert Worry The ’10 Year Challenge’ On Facebook Might Be A Data Mining Ruse

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Chris White on January 16, 2019 A recent popular meme comparing the past and current profile pictures of people on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter could be a technique designed to capture a user’s personal data, experts warn. The so-called “10 Year Challenge” that invites people to compare their first profiles from a decade ago to their…

Larry Sharpe Talks to Us About A.I., Hive Minds, and The New York Election

ByGary Doan

Recently, Gary and Rachael Doan had a chance to sit down with Larry Sharpe, Gubernatorial candidate from New York on behalf of The Libertarian Republic. He spoke on his state, his run, and quite a lot about artificial intelligence. GD: This is The Libertarian Republic, talking to Larry Sharpe. Um… you don’t have to answer…

Elon Musk And Stephen Hawking Win 2015 Luddite Award
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Elon Musk And Stephen Hawking Win 2015 Luddite Award

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Chris White   An innovation group Tuesday awarded its annual Luddite Award to a group of techno-luminaries espousing anti-artificial intelligence (AI) rhetoric. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) foisted the Luddite Award honor on various groups of technologists and scientists critical of AI, but aimed the bulk of its scorn at physicist Stephen Hawking and…

Study: We Should Crowdsource Global Warming Solutions Using Artificial Intelligence
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Study: We Should Crowdsource Global Warming Solutions Using Artificial Intelligence

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Chris White A super-intelligent hybrid human-computer — i.e. artificial intelligence — might be the ticket to solving “wicked” problems like global warming and war, researchers at the Human Computation Institution (HCI) and at Cornell University suggest. If only scientists could find a way to combine the creative abilities of humans with the immense data analyzing…

What Do Artificial Intelligence Researchers Think of the Risks of AI?

What Do Artificial Intelligence Researchers Think of the Risks of AI?

ByAustin Petersen

By Ramez Naam Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates have recently expressed concern that development of AI could lead to a ‘killer AI’ scenario, and potentially to the extinction of humanity. None of them are AI researchers or have worked substantially with AI that I know of. (Disclosure: I know Gates slightly from my…

Stephen Hawking: Artificial Intelligence “could outsmart us all.”

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Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking took a break from ruthlessly making fun of libtard John Oliver to reiterate some pretty terrifying predictions. On Oliver’s new HBO show “Last Week Tonight,” Hawking referenced statements he made in an op-ed piece in The Independent warning of how artificial intelligence could potentially destroy humanity. “One can imagine such technology…