The “Artificial” of Artificial Intelligence and MIT’s “Moral Machine”
By Patricia Burke At the Media Lab at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researchers wanted to explore some of the ethical and moral dilemmas…
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NY Times Article Follow-up by Fox News: Silicon Valley Parents’ Extreme Measures to Ban Kids’ Use and Exposure to Screens
By B.N. Frank Desperate times call for desperate measures. Just yesterday, Activist Post reported on the NY Times articles about Silicon Valley parents’ banning their…
“Colonizing Experiment in Surveillance Capitalism”: Privacy Expert Resigns From Google-Backed Smart City Project Over Surveillance Concerns
By Joseph Jankowski A privacy expert tasked with protecting personal data within a Google-backed smart city project has resigned as her pro-privacy guidelines would largely be…
EMFs & RFs Constantly Invade Your Home Inflicting DNA Damage, But There Is Something You Can Do To Mitigate That, Protect Yourself & Your Loved Ones
By Catherine J. Frompovich Humans have been evolving on Planet Earth for many thousands of years enjoying an environment free of man-made electromagnetic (EMF) and…
“Covert” Facial Recognition Street Lights Coming to a Neighborhood Near You
By MassPrivateI A recent Reuters article reveals that ST Engineering has been awarded $5.5 million to install facial recognition street lights in Singapore. ST’s smart…
Why We Need 5G’s Self-Driving Cars and Virtual Reality Like a Hole in the Head
By Patricia Burke The 1960’s television series Lost in Space featured a “Class M-3, Model B9, General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Robot (G.U.N.T.E.R.), which had no…
Welcome To The Smart Home Government Snitch Program
By Nicholas West The very nature of the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution appears to be at stake as the data…
Human 2.0 Is Almost Here: The Transhumanism Agenda Just Went Mainstream
Activist Post Editor’s Note: As we wrote about in 2013, “Medical Nanobots Will Connect Brain to Cloud Computing,” the emergence of DNA nanobots and nanocomputing…
Want Cheaper Insurance Rates? You Can Have It If You Let Companies Track and Manage Your Life
By Nicholas West One of the most insidious side effects emerging in our modern world of digital tracking and Big Data goes far beyond the…
“Smart” Playgrounds Emerge While Reports Indicate Kids Already Suffer From Too Much Tech
By B.N. Frank Activist Post has reported many times about mainstream articles, news reports, magazine segments, and research about screen addiction and other health issues…
Wireless Wars: When Censors Control the Sensors
Op-Ed by Patricia Burke The conveniences of the emerging explosion of artificial intelligence, machine-to-machine learning, and ubiquitous “5G” fifth-generation connectivity of the 4th industrial revolution…
When Smart Cities Need Citizens Asleep-at-the-Wheel, It is Time To Change Direction
By Patricia Burke Many pro-industry groups have compiled lists of the benefits of smart cities, the promise of data-driven decision-making, and the purported benefits of…
Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg Questioned on 5G Safety, Privacy Concerns
By The Conscious Resistance On October 1, Verizon Wireless and the City of Houston celebrated the launch of the 5th Generation (5G) cellular network. The…
Is Shielding From Electromagnetic Frequencies And 5G Necessary?
By Catherine J. Frompovich Electromagnetic Frequencies (EMFs) What are they?, you may be asking. EMFs are the very frequencies that make modern life possible such…