The Federal Government Just Can’t Get Enough of Your Face
By Chao Liu There are more federal facial recognition technology (FRT) systems than there are federal agencies using them, according to the U.S. General Accounting…
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More Driverless Electric Robotaxis Being Tested in Select U.S. Cities and Singapore — Never Mind Battery Fire and Accident Risks
By B.N. Frank Electric Vehicles (EVs) continue to be recalled due to battery fires (see 1, 2). EVs also emit high levels of harmful electromagnetic…
Robocop Is Here: Singapore Deploys Robots To Detect “Undesirable Behavior” Including Groups Of “More Than Five People”
By Tyler Durden Slowly but surely, the world is transforming into a 1984-Robocop-Terminator-Minority Report–Judge Dredd fusion dystopia. And while we wait for Elon Musk’s dancing…
Facebook Sorry Its A.I. Software Labeled Black Men as “Primates” in Network Video
By B.N. Frank Embarrassing and tragic examples of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) faux-pas and inaccuracies continue to be reported (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). There…
“Medical Drones” Deployed Over Italian Beaches Search For Feverish People
By Tyler Durden In the early days of the virus pandemic, we covered multiple stories involving drones equipped with thermal optic sensors and artificial intelligence to detect…
Samsung Says 6G Will Bring “Digital Twins”
6G will be 50 times faster than 5G and will enable the Metaverse where everything will be digitalized. Holograms, AI and virtual reality will be…
The Internet of Bodies Ends Bodily Autonomy
By Matt Our interconnected globalized world runs on the Internet. Not that long ago, connecting to the Internet required accessing a computer that was physically…
A.I. “ShotSpotter” Conviction Overturned Due to “Scant Evidence” After Man Spends Almost One Year in Prison
By B.N. Frank Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is NOT always accurate. Examples continue to be reported (see 1, 2). There is even an A.I. “Hall of…
Chicago Inspector General: Police Use ShotSpotter to Justify Illegal Stop-and-Frisks
By Matthew Guariglia and Adam Schwartz The Chicago Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has released a highly critical report on the Chicago Police Department’s use…
Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot May Currently Be “a tease” But Other Robots Have Already Taken Human Jobs (List Included)
By B.N. Frank Concerns and expert warnings about Artificial Intelligence (AI) are nothing new (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9). There’s…
NYPD Secret Surveillance Tools Include Facial-Recognition and Predictive Policing Software, X-ray Machines, “Stingray” Cell Site Simulators
By B.N. Frank For many years, communities worldwide have been installing privacy invasive technology. Some communities have officially become privacy invasive “Smart Cities” (see 1,…
John Deere to Acquire Autonomous Tractors Start-Up; “removes a person from the tractor cab entirely”
By B.N. Frank Cybersecurity experts have warned about serious risks and vulnerabilities associated with “Smart Farms” and Internet of Things (IoT) connected agriculture. Strangely enough,…
Pentagon Technocrats Using AI To “See Days In Advance”
The Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE) seeks to see into the future in order to outwit the enemy. This was tried with pre-crime AI software…
$11B Invested into Data Collecting Autonomous Trucks; “And yet, there’s still not a true driverless truck—and may never be.”
By B.N. Frank Warnings about totally autonomous vehicles NOT being safe have been ongoing (see 1, 3, 4, 5, 6). Warnings about massive job loss…