Doctors in Canada MAID to Murder by Government
By Rafe S. Klinger Prearranged Euthanasia gets medical stamp of approval with questionable new Quebec law. The government of Quebec has quietly greenlit provincial doctors…
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Human oversight of AI systems may not be as effective as we think — especially when it comes to warfare
By Mark Tsagas, University of East London As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more powerful – even being used in warfare – there’s an urgent need…
Climate and Public Health: A Two-Headed Inquisition
By David Bell International public health operates around a clear set of dogmas, protected by maintaining taboos on discussion of subjects that might undermine them….
They Are Using Lab-Grown Human Brains That They Have Enslaved Called “Organoids” To Run Computers
By Michael Snyder When I first started researching this, I could hardly believe that it was true. A company in Switzerland known as “Final Spark”…
AI Alignment in a Divided or Holistic World View
By Kate Kheel of Safe Tech International Technology and AI are different from other inventions such as the nuclear bomb or gene editing which are…
Scientists on Quest to Decode the Human Brain – And Read People’s Minds
By The Conversation The brain is the most complicated object in the universe. Can researchers solve its greatest mysteries? In the middle of 2023, a…
Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Where’s the Line?
By Derrick Broze The use of artificial intelligence is quickly expanding in the legal arena, but what are the implications of “robot” attorneys and plaintiffs…
AI is Already Being Melded with Robotics – One Outcome Could be Powerful New Weapons
Mark Tsagas, University of East London Interest in the incorporation of robots into security, policing and military operations has been steadily increasing over the last…
When Will Young Girls be Safe from Iran’s Morality Police?
By Emily Thompson Iran’s morality police are once again under fire, this time over the beating of a young 16-year-old girl. According to the Norway-based…
AI: Why Installing “Robot Judges” in Courtrooms is a Really Bad Idea
By Rónán Kennedy, University of Galway Science fiction’s visions of the future include many versions of artificial intelligence (AI), but relatively few examples where software…
The False Placebo
By Rosanne Lindsay, Naturopath As much as we have tried to fuse science with medicine, much of the practice of medicine is not scientifically based….
How Uploading our Minds to a Computer Might Become Possible
By Angela Thornton, University of Nottingham The idea that our mind could live on in another form after our physical body dies has been a…
AI is Already Being Used in the Legal System — We Need to Pay More Attention to How We Use It
By Morgiane Noel, Trinity College Dublin Artificial intelligence (AI) has become such a part of our daily lives that it’s hard to avoid – even…
MRI Scans and AI Technology Really Could Read What We’re Thinking — The Implications are Terrifying
By Joshua Krook, University of Southampton For the first time, researchers have managed to use GPT1, precursor to the AI chatbot ChatGPT, to translate MRI…