Academia may be helping depoliticize spy agencies.
But as the study notes, growing into and dialoging with academia goes far beyond empowering multiple intelligence agencies to give differing viewpoints.
It means releasing more information into the public sphere and enduring more public and systematic criticism from academics who are not necessarily looking to save the intelligence community from embarrassment.
The spectre of superintelligent machines doing us harm is not just science fiction, technologists say – so how can we ensure AI remains ‘friendly’ to its makers? By Mara Hvistendahl
If you recognize the acronym “DCGS”, you probably know that the Tolkien-infused intelware vendor Palantir Technologies has captured the $800 million contract for the US Army’s “new” intelligence system. If not, you won’t care.
Phi Beta Iota is being massively censored in the aftermath of my posting an expose on New Zealand in which I identified myself as a white nationalist. I am white, I am a nationalist, and I am also a supporter of our President. I am also non-violent and not a member of any supremacist or other hate group. And I worship Cynthia McKinney (my fourth crime in the Zionist calalog)! Having proven my patriotism and integrity with service in the Marines, CIA, and in the private sector, I am committed to eradicating Zionist influence on the US economy, US government, and US society.
I am seeking evidence, particularly in the form of messages that say (falsely) that Phi Beta Iota is a pornography site, a hate site, a malicious software host, the usual. Our traffic has dropped by 90% in the last two days. I know I have a case, I want to file a multi-million dollar lawsuit against anyone who is blocking traffic with messaging that is known to be false (hence malicious).
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robert.david.steele.vivas AT gmail DOT com
Two competing visions of our digital future have emerged from China and Silicon Valley. But are they really so different?
On one side sits the system used in China, which produces vast amounts of personal data and blurs into a huge apparatus of state surveillance and censorship. This model is centred on two online behemoths, whose dominance partly comes down to the fact that Chinese consumerism is all about paying via your smartphone, rather than an old-fashioned plastic card. There’s the e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba, and Tencent, which owns WeChat, the platform used by more than 1 billion people every day. It does so many things – payments, social networking, messaging, travel booking, gaming – that participating in society without it seems all but impossible.