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The Thing About AI
The Thing About AI As if we didn’t have enough to worry about with economic, political and ecological collapse, genocides, grotesquely incompetent ‘leaders’, and nuclear brinkmanship, now we also have to worry about AI. To some extent, as Indrajit Samarajiva has repeatedly pointed out, we have had AI around for centuries, in the form of corporations — […]
JPM Predicts Global AI Data Centers Will Consume 681 Olympic-Sized Pools Of Fresh Water Daily
JPM Predicts Global AI Data Centers Will Consume 681 Olympic-Sized Pools Of Fresh Water Daily Wall Street banks are in a frenzy over “The Next AI Trade,” piling into the ‘Powering up America’ investment themes, whether that’s power grid companies, commodities, such as copper, gold, silver, and uranium, and artificial intelligence chipmakers, to accommodate the explosion of generative artificial intelligence […]
AI Computing Is on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says
AI Computing Is on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says (Bloomberg) — AI’s voracious need for computing power is threatening to overwhelm energy sources, requiring the industry to change its approach to the technology, according to Arm Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Rene Haas. By 2030, the world’s data centers are on […]
AI, Cryptocurrency Will Double Data Center Energy Consumption by 2026
AI, Cryptocurrency Will Double Data Center Energy Consumption by 2026 According to the IEA, electricity consumption from data centres, artificial intelligence (AI) and the cryptocurrency sector could double by 2026. Factor in the global push to EVs. Please consider the International Energy Agency IEA Electricity Analysis Report 2024-2026. IEA Notable Points Global electricity demand rose moderately in […]
AI and the new kind of propagandaSome dystopian nightmare fuel
AI and the new kind of propaganda Some dystopian nightmare fuel Do you remember how the unconstitutional, pastel-authoritarian and totally batshit insane “Disinformation Governance Board” – with its Mary Poppins-cosplaying, Monty Python level of unintentional self-satirizing department head – was rolled out two years ago like a half-joke, half-beta-test of a version of the 1984 […]
Logically.AI of Britain and the Expanding Global Reach of Censorship
Logically.AI of Britain and the Expanding Global Reach of Censorship Brian Murphy, a former FBI agent who once led the intelligence wing of the Department of Homeland Security, reflected last summer on the failures of the Disinformation Governance Board – the panel formed to actively police misinformation. The board, which was proposed in April 2022 […]
Normal Intrusions: Globalising AI Surveillance
Normal Intrusions: Globalising AI Surveillance They all do it: corporations, regimes, authorities. They all have the same reasons: efficiency, serviceability, profitability, all under the umbrella term of “security”. Call it surveillance, or call it monitoring the global citizenry; it all comes down to the same thing. You are being watched for your own good, and […]
Snowden Spills: Infamous Whistleblower Opines On Spycraft, AI, And Being Suicided
Snowden Spills: Infamous Whistleblower Opines On Spycraft, AI, And Being Suicided Edward Snowden has finally laid it all out – documenting his memoires in a new 432-page book, Permanent Record, which will be published worldwide on Tuesday, September 17. Meeting with both The Guardian and Spiegel Online in Moscow as part of its promotion, the infamous whistleblower spent nearly five hours with the […]
When software rules the world
When software rules the world I was a young boy when elevator operators still closed those see-through, metal accordion interior elevator doors by hand and then moved the elevator up or down by rotating a knob on a wheel embedded in the elevator wall. Within a few years all those operators were gone, replaced by […]
Creepy Billboards Track Consumers With AI Cameras That Target Ads Based On Mood
Creepy Billboards Track Consumers With AI Cameras That Target Ads Based On Mood The Sunday Times discovered dozens of billboards with cameras and facial detection software are targeting consumers at shopping malls across the country with personalized ads. The report found 50 advertising screens with facial detection technology that identifies the age, gender, and mood of consumers, […]
We’re All Being Judged By A Secret ‘Trustworthiness’ Score
We’re All Being Judged By A Secret ‘Trustworthiness’ Score Nearly everything we buy, how we buy, and where we’re buying from is secretly fed into AI-powered verification services that help companies guard against credit-card and other forms of fraud, according to the Wall Street Journal. More than 16,000 signals are analyzed by a service called Sift, which generates […]
Are we sleepwalking into an AI police state?
Are we sleepwalking into an AI police state? Predictive analytics enabling law enforcement to identify “high-risk” areas has highlighted ethical and legal quandaries Science fiction has long speculated on the danger of a dystopian future and machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI). But with the advent of big data, we no longer need to speculate: the future […]
China Programming AI Drones To Autonomously Murder Without Human Input
China Programming AI Drones To Autonomously Murder Without Human Input China is programming new autonomous AI-powered drones to conduct “targeted military strikes” without a human making the decision to fire, according to a new report by the Center for a New American Security, a US national security think tank. Authored by Gregory C. Allen, the report is a comprehensive look […]
