AI Capitalism
Despite the global Uber-hype about artificial intelligence (AI), there still is what only “we” have: natural intelligence (NI). NI allows us to deal with reality in terms of abstractions, predictions,…
Artificial intelligence
From Plato to AI: Are we losing our minds?
Plato, through the words of the central character in his famous dialogues, the philosopher Socrates, tells us that the invention of writing severely impaired human memory. The impairment resulted in part…
AI’s Energy Use – a View from Germany
Perhaps such activities as simple as searching on the Internet or sending an email, artificial intelligence or AI depends on data processing centers. These are sizable factory- or better warehouse-like physical structures that house computing machines and other…
Algorithmic Systems & Trade Unions
Put simply, an algorithmic system is a set of computer codes that works inside a computer. It is this algorithmic code that creates algorithmic management. Therefore, in essence, without algorithmic…
Tony Blair: Profiteer and Emissary of Artificial Intelligence
His entire set of teeth, and gums, must be gold plated by now. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has decided to let the world, and more specifically Sir Keir…
AI and the digital scramble for Africa
We are told that Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be a powerful tool for advancing democratic concerns and human rights across Africa. Yet, there are also early indicators…
An AI Hell on Earth?
Venture capital and military startup firms in Silicon Valley have begun aggressively selling a version of automated warfare that will deeply incorporate artificial intelligence (AI). Those companies and their CEOs are now…
Ignoring Warnings, Risks of AI Weapons Continue to Increase
Recent tragic experiences in Gaza have confirmed the fears of those scientists who have been warning about the use of AI and robotics in weapon systems and warfare. The use…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Reshaping Political Campaigning: A New Frontier
Amid India's vibrant election season, technology and politics converge at unprecedented levels, as AI transforms traditional campaign tactics. This article delves into the intersection of historical legacies and forward-looking aspirations,…
Quest of immortality
Quest of immortality has been as timeless as it has remained fruitless. First recorded over 4000 years ago on the Babylonian Tablets, it narrates the tale of King Gilgamesh of Uruk. His…
Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now
The promise of AI is eclipsed by its perils, which include our own annihilation. Those advocating for artificial intelligence tout the huge benefits of using this technology. For instance, an…
Generative AI: Stealing from artists, devaluing art
The technology behind generative AI has created a big splash in the content-addicted world of the internet. Its ability to churn out hundreds of synthetic images and text at industrial…
India faces AI-disinformation threat ahead of elections
The Global Risk Report 2024 of the World Economic Forum has ranked India as the top country where the crisis of misinformation and disinformation is most severe. The world’s largest…
“Emergent” AI Behavior and Human Destiny
Yes, it’s already time to be worried — very worried. As the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have shown, the earliest drone equivalents of “killer robots” have made it onto the battlefield and proved to…
North American Society, AI and the Technological Imperatives
What We Think of Technology? When we think of technology, we often think of things which manifest as inventions and happen to make our lives easier and better. Some of…
Absolute and Triple Exploitation: Capital Accumulation in the Information Age
As the technological revolution (and especially the recent developments in artificial intelligence) progresses, the discussions surrounding its dystopic potential are abundant. However, there is a desert of analysis as to…
Rishi Sunak’s AI Pitch: The Bletchley Declaration
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak looks as much a deep fake projection as a thin, superficial representation of reality. His robotic, risible awkwardness makes a previous occupant of his office,…
AI, the future of work, and beyond
by Omar Raad Chowdhury and Md. Abdul Aahad Throughout the history of human civilization, there have been three industrial revolutions: the first industrial revolution in the late 18th century, characterised…
Artificial Intelligence: Profit Versus Freedom
Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a profit opportunity for capitalists, but it presents a crucial choice for the working class. Because the working class is the majority, that crucial choice confronts…
Robotaxis Behaving Badly After Approval
A press conference August 23 at the Cruise Autonomous Robotaxi headquarters calling for a halt in the operation of all autonomous vehicles (AVs) on city streets following a number of…
Combating Hate Crimes through Artificial Intelligence: A Technological Approach to Enhance Social Harmony
Hate crimes continue to be a persistent and distressing issue in societies around the world. These malicious acts are fueled by prejudice, discrimination, and intolerance, often resulting in physical harm,…
Driverless Robo-Taxis Allowed in San Francisco
In spite of the huge protests and resistance from the public, California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) voted 4-1 in favor of the proposal to allow driverless Robo-Taxis in San Francisco.…
Will Sentience Improve LLMs, Autonomous Vehicles?
There is a new paper, Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models, where the authors wrote, "In this paper, we propose a simple and effective attack method that…
Neurobiology: AI Safety, The Mind and Mental Illness
There is a recent paper in Nature, Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons, where the a part of the abstract…
LLMs: A Model of Free Will in Schizophrenia
There is a recent article on Big Think, What does schizophrenia feel like?, stating that, "What characterizes schizophrenia is experiencing hallucinations: perceptions that appear real but are created by the…
Can Brain Science Characterize Artificial Intelligence?
There is a new article in Nature, ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI, where the author wrote, "The most famous test…
The Enormous Dangers of Military Artificial Intelligence Reveal the Need for International Regulation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is bound to be a major technological force that will reshape the 21st century. But its reverberating effects will not be confined to the technological; the evolution…
The Military Dangers of AI Are Not Hallucinations
A world in which machines governed by artificial intelligence (AI) systematically replace human beings in most business, industrial, and professional functions is horrifying to imagine. After all, as prominent computer…
The Rise of AI Journalism in India: Embracing the Future or Facing a Threat?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize various industries, and the media landscape is no exception. Recently, India witnessed a pathbreaking development as it introduced its first AI news anchor. This…
“Put on the brakes” Robotaxi Protest to keep SF Streets Safe!
With the possible addition of 200 more autonomous vehicle (AVS) robotaxis in San Francisco, demonstrators opposed to their deployment vented their frustration this morning outside the offices of the California…
The AI Robot’s C-word
With the equally rapid developments of both artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, perhaps one day, we might see a self-confident robot like the one seen in the 2004 Hollywood movie,…
Artificial intelligence and the fate of the world
Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, thinks artificial intelligence (AI) will kill us all. He frequently poses the following question. Imagine that you are a member of an…
On Understanding Generative AI as a Corporate-Fascist Weapon
Background The euphoria around many ‘frontier technologies’ such as Digitization, Internet of Things (IoT), Block-Chain, 5G, 3D Printing, Robotics, Gene Editing, Nanotechnology and the like that captured mainstream news headlines…
A Call for Safe and Ethical AI (Artificial Intelligence) for Health
The World Health Organisation (WHO) urges caution while employing extensive language model tools (LLMs) produced by artificial intelligence (AI) to protect and enhance human well-being, human safety, and human autonomy,…
Sentience: Does AI Have Artificial Consciousness?
There is a recent article, Why Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea, where the author stated that, "While some researchers suggest that conscious AI is close at hand, others, including…
Must Sentience Include Subjective Experience? Maybe Not
Consciousness is often defined by what it is like to be or what it means to have an experience, like seeing a color or hearing a sound. There are also…
Geoffrey Hinton, AI, and Google’s Ethics Problem
Talk about the dangers of artificial intelligence, actual or imagined, has become feverish, much of it induced by the growing world of generative chat bots. When scrutinising the critics, attention…
What Happens When LTAI (Less Than Artificial Intelligence) Gives Way to AI?
After almost 79 years on this beleaguered planet, let me say one thing: this can’t end well. Really, it can’t. And no, I’m not talking about the most obvious issues…
Artificial Intelligence & The Polycrisis
Editor & Author’s Preface: This piece doesn’t explain itself much, nor argue effectively (with citations and footnotes), but speaks to those who have already come to understand the situation in —…
ChatGPT and human intelligence: Noam Chomsky responds to critics
The recent emergence of OpenAI’s ChatGPT (part of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer family of language models) has attracted a lot of attention throughout the world. It is a chatbot released…
‘AI-Shima’ Will Hack Your Password
Source: author + www.craiyon.com Perhaps the recent media hype about artificial intelligence (AI) and “not-really-so” OpenAI’s program called ChatGPT, made many people worried about AI. Some – even inside AI…
AI’s Moral Mistress
The recent developments on artificial intelligence (AI) seem to move way too fast for way too many people. As a consequence, an AI moratorium – including a petition – has…
Libelled by the Bot: Reputation, Defamation and AI
Cometh the new platform, cometh new actions in law, the fragile litigant ever ready to dash off a writ to those with (preferably) deep pockets. And so, it transpires that…
Germany’s Ethics Council on Artificial Intelligence
Source: AI’s answer to AI on www.craiyon.com + human input, i.e. the author Germany has a problematic relationship with morality. On the one hand, it is home to moral philosophers…
ChatGPT: Boon for the Lazy Learner
Inside the beating heart of many students and a large number of learners lies an inner cheat. To get passing grades, every effort will be made to do the least…
Revolution or Ruin? Evaluating the Consequences of Artificial Intelligence in Global Society
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is a burgeoning technology poised to revolutionize the world and bring significant change to global society. AI offers new capabilities and efficiency for humanity in the…
Artificial Intelligence Wants You (and Your Job) – We’d Better Control Machines Before They Control Us
My wife and I were recently driving in Virginia, amazed yet again that the GPS technology on our phones could guide us through a thicket of highways, around road accidents,…
War Mongering for Artificial Intelligence
The ghost of Edward Teller must have been doing the rounds between members of the National Commission on Artificial Intelligence. The father of the hydrogen bomb was never one too…
How intelligent is artificial intelligence: Exploring the exclusion of minority
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly being touted as our future. AI technology has not only invaded our private lives in the form of smart technologies, virtual assistants, and robotic/…
Pandemic, AI, and end of Democracy
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.” ― George Orwell, 1984 The year 2020 is going to be recorded by future…
Artificial Intelligence: Socioeconomic, Political And Ethical Dimensions
Introduction: Humanity’s Future in AI-Biosynthetic World In a few centuries or perhaps a few decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and biosynthetic engineering will be perfected to the degree that androids will…
For Automation to Benefit Society, It Must Serve Humans, Not Replace Them
A recent episode of CBC Radio’s Day 6 featured an interview with David Levy, artificial intelligence expert and author of Love and Sex with Robots. Levy discussed a line of…
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