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05/03/2018 / By Ethan Huff

AI experts influence industry direction by boycotting research into killer robots

The president of the prestigious Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is backtracking on plans to build artificial intelligence (AI) military weaponry in violation of United Nations (U.N.) prohibitions following a mass boycott of the university by more than 50 of the world’s leading AI experts. Sung-Chul Shin, who had previously signed an […]

03/23/2018 / By JD Heyes

Social media is a “disease,” and Mark Zuckerberg a CANCER on society

Like his tech colleagues at Google, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg enjoyed ‘most-favored company’ status during the Obama administration. What a difference 12 months makes. Following a report by the Left-leaning Guardian over the weekend that a consulting firm called Cambridge Analytica, which was funded as a start-up by billionaire Trump supporter Robert Mercer, used a […]

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