artificial intelligence 
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6/19/2022
Will Artificial Intelligence be the Agent of Capitalism's (and Humanity's) Creative Destruction?
by Jim Castagnera
Between science fiction and the political economy of the present, the author wonders if artificial intelligence will constitute humanity's successor species.
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SOURCE: Public Books
11/30/2021
Facial Surveillance Has Always Been Flawed
by Amanda Levendowski
Today, artificial intelligence startups are scraping the web to build massive face-recognition databases, without any pretense of consent by the public. The technology may be new, but the intrusive assertion of surveillance has a long history.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
9/29/2021
Autonomous Robot Weapons Could be More Destabilizing than Nukes
by James Dawes
"Imagine a world in which militaries, insurgent groups and international and domestic terrorists can deploy theoretically unlimited lethal force at theoretically zero risk at times and places of their choosing, with no resulting legal accountability."
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SOURCE: Public Books
8/18/2021
Prison Tech Comes Home: Tenants and Residents in the Surveillance State
by Erin McElroy, Meredith Whittaker and Nicole E. Weber
Landlords have combined technologies developed for screening tenants in the 1970s with more recent digital surveillance and facial recognition systems developed in prisons to dramatically increase control over their tenants during an affordable housing crisis.
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SOURCE: War on the Rocks
6/8/2020
The Promise and Risks of Artificial Intelligence: A Brief History
by Rebecca Slayton
Machines have been taking over tasks that otherwise require human intelligence for decades, if not centuries.
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SOURCE: Press Release: Queen Mary University of London
12-19-2018
Analysing history using Artificial Intelligence
Queen Mary University of London is leading a major new research project, Living with Machines, which is set to be one of the biggest and most ambitious humanities and science research initiatives ever to launch in the UK.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
5-10-18
Artificial intelligence has been used to recreate JFK's Dallas speech that he never gave
Is technology bringing history to life or distorting it?
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SOURCE: AHA Today
12-11-17
Historians' Debate: Will Robots Rule the World?
by Dane Kennedy
Louis Hyman says the nature of the changes being wrought by innovation are unprecedented.
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SOURCE: USA Today
11-7-17
Stephen Hawking: AI could be 'worst event in the history of our civilization'
Elon Musk isn't the only high-profile figure concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence.
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SOURCE: Science World Report
5-24-16
Yuval Noah Harari turns to fiction
In the novel, "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow,” the historian warns that Artificial Intelligence will lead to a future class of useless humans.
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SOURCE: Business Insider
4-14-16
Microsoft's latest AI experiment is refusing to look at photos of Adolf Hitler
After its last AI chatbot turned into a genocide-advocating, misogynistic, holocaust-denying racist, the company's latest project — a bot that tells you what's in photos — refuses to even look at photos of Adolf Hitler.
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