HARPA: New Agency to Use A.I. to Screen Mental Health for Gun Ownership?
By Nicholas West Most people have heard of DARPA — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — that is informally known as the mad science…
By Nicholas West Most people have heard of DARPA — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — that is informally known as the mad science…
By Cat Ellis Due to the recent mass shootings, there is a major push for so-called “red flag” gun laws at both the state and federal…
By Nicholas West Unlike my previous post that took a lighthearted look at the newest Robo-Dog on the market, which has a Doberman head filled…
By Nicholas West While I don’t subscribe to the idea that there are inherently bad breeds of dogs, Hollywood has done its best to create…
By Jessica Corbett Privacy advocates are responding with alarm to Amazon’s claim this week that the controversial cloud-based facial recognition system the company markets to law enforcement…
By Nicholas West One aspect often lost in the immigration debate is the rollout of government solutions that are set to restrict the freedom of…
By Jon Miltimore The Associated Press reports Congress is seriously considering red flag gun laws. These laws, also called “extreme risk protection orders,” allow courts…
By Adam Palmer Within minutes of the tragic mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, gun control fanatics were predictably not letting a crisis go…
By John W. Whitehead “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by…
By Nicholas West The move toward using robots in law enforcement, private security, and even to scare away the homeless, has been a decade-long trend…
By Aaron Kesel Facebook-backed research on brain reading has transmitted thoughts to speech, as we take a step towards pre-crime becoming a reality. Meanwhile, in…
By John W. Whitehead “Adolf Hitler is alive and well in the United States, and he is fast rising to power.”—Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant…
By Nicholas West Public resistance in the United States has finally begun to mount against the use of facial recognition systems due to privacy issues…
By Jack Burns Imagine a day when police can randomly, actively, and at lightning speeds search databases for active search warrants using only a camera…