Army Wants Soldiers to 3D Print A.I. Robot Squid in Future Missions
By Nicholas West While most of the news over the last several years has been about the ramp-up of drone use across the planet in…
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U.S. Military Working To Deploy Robot Ground Vehicles For Urban Combat By 2020
By Nicholas West “Every year, more and more of the world’s population moves into cities. The number of megacities is growing exponentially. Both of these…
New Smart Robot Opens Doors Even When Humans Try To Stop It
By Jake Anderson One of the creepiest parts of the film Jurassic Park is when the velociraptor uses his witch-like claws to manipulate the door handle and…
SPCA Hypocrites Now Using Robots to Scare Away Homeless People
By Truthstream Media Activist Post Editor’s Note: The lack of compassion displayed by the government toward the homeless is already on the rise. But it…
Marx, Robotics and the Collapse of Profits
By Charles Hugh Smith Whatever commoditized robots can produce is no longer profitable; rather, the production destroys capital. Yesterday I discussed how robots only do work…
Misunderstanding the Economics of Robotics
By Charles Hugh Smith Robots are only cost-effective in the narrow niches of commoditized tasks. In the view of Universal Basic Income (UBI) advocates, substituting…
The Real Sharing Economy: Democracy At Work
Op-Ed by Neenah Payne “Once upon a time, when Windows were holes in a room and an Application was written on paper. When a Keyboard…
A Radical Critique of Universal Basic Income
By Charles Hugh Smith This critique reveals the unintended consequences of UBI. Readers have been asking me what I thought of Universal Basic Income (UBI)…
Israel Has Built a Robot Army
By Darius Shahtahmasebi As Israel prepares for yet another war directly on its border, the truth about Israel’s vast military capabilities has been largely absent in…
Why Giving Robots (Objects) Citizenship Is Crazy
By Vin Armani In this video, Vin Armani explains why giving robots citizenship is crazy. Is it to tax them? Is it to marry them?…
What’s Wrong With The Robot Tax?
By Vin Armani In this video, Vin Armani talks about the approaching agenda of taxing robots as if they’re the same as labor because they…
“The Future Soldiers” Are Weaponized Drone Battalions
By Nicholas West Since the inception of Activist Post, we have been chronicling the transition from traditional military systems toward a future war matrix of…
Military Continues to Design War Matrix with “Internet of Battlefield Things”
By Nicholas West The military continues to hone its vision to build a full-scale matrix of (smart) war that is being branded the Internet of…
Russian AK-47 Gun Maker Turns to Future of Autonomous Weapons
By Nicholas West The Kalashnikov AK-47 is certainly one of the most iconic automatic weapons ever devised. Today, nearly 70 years after its debut, worldwide…