40+ Rights Groups Urge Biden to Halt Federal Use of “Dangerous” Facial Recognition Technology
By Jessica Corbett A coalition of more than 40 advocacy groups is calling on President Joe Biden to take executive action imposing a moratorium on…
Artificial Intelligence
Advanced A.I. Software Developed for “Smart Cities” Will Create “Spotlight” On the Tracked Subject
By B.N. Frank There’s good reason to be concerned about Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. It’s replacing human jobs (see 1, 2). It’s being used for…
Israel Develops Drone That Navigates Without GPS
By Tyler Durden The inevitable is coming. Either cheap GPS signal jamming technology or hypersonic missiles destroying a mesh network of GPS satellites will threaten…
Spot, The Robot Dog, Is Now “Battery Trained”
By Tyler Durden On Tuesday, Boston Dynamics uploaded a video of Spot, the autonomous robot dog designed to inspect hazardous job sites, with a new trick….
Google Engineers Resign After AI Ethics Researcher Was Fired for Concerns That Company’s Speech Tech Could Hurt Marginalized Groups
By B.N. Frank Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is getting a bad rap for replacing human jobs (see 1, 2) and being used for applications that…
Warnings of Growing “Surveillance Empire” as AI Van Cameras Give Amazon “Roaming Eyes in Every Neighborhood”
By Brett Wilkins In what one leading digital rights advocate is calling “the largest expansion of corporate surveillance in human history,” Amazon has begun installing…
IARPA Developing AI To Help Predict The Future
IARPA, funded by taxpayer money like its cousin DARPA, intends to continuously collect all data about everyone in real time in order to let AI…
Police To Use A Network Of 1,000 “Anveshak” AI Cameras To “Spotlight” A Person’s Every Movement
By MassPrivateI The future of total police surveillance just got a whole lot bleaker, thanks to researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). IISc…
Microsoft Wants to Reanimate You as a “Conversational” Chatbot After You Die
By Jake Anderson Black Mirror creator Charlie Booker made headlines earlier this year when he stated that the world was bleak enough without a new…
Company Plans Mass Rollout of Humanoid Robots to Replace Workers in Healthcare, Education
By PFW News A Hong Kong-based robotics company plans to mass produce humanoid robots to replace workers across industries such as healthcare and education. Hanson…
Microsoft Patents AI Chatbots That Imitate Dead People
By Tyler Durden The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted Microsoft one of the most bizarre patents to date: chatbots using deceased people’s personal information. …
Facial Recognition and “Coded Bias” — Online Q&A with Documentary Team, January 27th
On Wednesday, January 27, EFF Associate Director of Community Organizing, Nathan ‘nash‘ Sheard (he/ze), will take part in a live Q&A on Twitter with the team behind…
Huge Interest In Pizza-Making Robot As COVID Accelerates “Social Distancing Kitchens”
By Tyler Durden COVID-19 will accelerate technological change that will bring the rise of robotics and artificial intelligence to many industries. In particular, the restaurant industry,…
Scientists: No Way To Control Super-Intelligent AI
Some scientists are now concerned that a day will come with super-intelligent AI programs will take on an autonomous life of their own. Already there…