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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: Vice
October 22, 2019
DeepMind AI Beats Human Historians at Deciphering Ancient Texts
by Edward Ongweso Jr
University of Oxford researchers are using machine learning to help make ancient text restoration less tedious.
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SOURCE: ZD Net
7/12/2019
Now Microsoft wants to use AI to save history
Microsoft creates a program that aims to use AI to preserve the world's cultures in the face of globalisation.
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SOURCE: The Sociable
5-31-18
AI and Machine Learning open new possibilities into JFK assassination research
Now researchers don’t have to read every document to find out what’s in them.
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SOURCE: Politico
1/9/18
The Future of Work, a History
by Kevin Baker
America has a long, complicated track record of dreading that robots would take our jobs.
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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.