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IMA PANEL: Drawing the AI Line in the Sand #SolutionsWatch
In the second Independent Media Alliance/#SolutioinsWatch crossover episode, co-hosts James Corbett and Hakeem Anwar are joined by IMA regulars...
WATCH: Butlerian Jihad When? – #SolutionsWatch
The AI uprising has begun. But what kind of uprising will it be? Will it be a Butlerian Jihad?...
If I am Anti-AI am I the Anti-Christ?
VN Alexander
Large Language Models (LLMs), otherwise known as AI chatbots, are statistical models of human speech patterns. Given a prompt,...
Tinker, tailor, publisher, spy: how Robert Maxwell created the academic peer review system
Prof Gloria Moss & Dr Niall McCrae
Publication of research results, theoretical propositions and scholarly essays is not a free-for-all. As shown by the dogmatism around...
Did AI just Evolve? I don’t think so.
VN Alexander
On October 23, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, hosts of the DarkHorse podcast, reported the discovery, which is described in a pre-print...
Saving the Science We Crucially Need
Pierre-Alain Bruchez
The crisis in science that undermines research is widely underestimated, largely because irreproducible results, ideological bias, conflicts of interest,...
We Don’t Need a New Framework for AI Ethics
VN Alexander
In June 2025, the newly mitred Pope Leo announced his support for the Rome Call for AI Ethics, issued by Vatican in...
Neo-Terminator
Todd Hayen
John was a shrew. He knew that ten years ago, when the Covid insanity started and everyone wanted him...
Can AI be Aligned with Human Values?
VN Alexander
The “alignment” problem is much discussed in Silicon Valley. Computer Engineers worry that, when AI becomes conscious and is...
Is the Military Developing Mind Reading Tech?
VN Alexander
In James Corbett’s recent article, “The Battle for Your Brain is ALREADY Underway,” he lists various DARPA-funded projects developing technologies...
Pop Goes the Weasel
Todd Hayen
When I think about what the world will look like in the future, the models I fall back on...
The Rise of the Immortal Dictator: What Will AI Mean for Freedom and Government?
John & Nisha Whitehead
“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the...
Let’s talk about….the Global Computer Crisis
A massive outage of Windows-based computers has impacted systems all over the world. Doctors’ surgeries, airlines, train stations, television...
Neuralink Does Not Read Minds and Never Will
VN Alexander
The headlines scream: “AI Mind-Reading Has Arrived!” “Neuralink Allows Man to Control Computer with his Thoughts! “Chinese Soldiers’ AI...
How generative AI will ruin science and academic research
Johan Eddebo
Background: the epistemology of modern mass media I often come back to Neil Postman’s 1985 classic Amusing Ourselves to Death. It’s...
WATCH: Take Back Our Tech – #SolutionsWatch
Ramiro Romani of TakeBackOurTech.org and AbovePhone.com joins James Corbett on the latest edition of SolutionsWatch to discuss technology: what...
WORLDCOIN: AI Requires Proof That You Are Human
Karen Hunt In the opening scene of the original Blade Runner film, Leon, a Nexus-6 replicant is given a...
To Live Forever
Karen Hunt “Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it...
If It Was Allowed, I’d Hold You Down and…
Edward Curtin I think it is generally accepted that the practice of medicine has changed radically over the past...
Who really wants AI…and why?
TE Creus I’ve noticed that self-checkout is taking over more and more shops and supermarkets. They have existed for...
