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An international organisation to deal with emerging, strategic technology is bound to come against domestic interests, superpower rivalries. Solution may lie in pre-existing sector-specific standard-setting bodies
Read later Summary: The US National Security Commission has issued a massive, 700 page "final report" on the impact of AI on defense and intelligence. The report's conclusions are concerning, and not without controversy. US tech leaders were directly involved in this report - the proposed plan of action is worth a close look. I attended the Third Annual AI Summit at the Potomac Officers Club, a conference focused on AI for Defense and Intelligence. The opening keynote by Yii Bajaktari, Executive Director, National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) covered the highlights...
The global nuclear lobby will be glad when March is over. They were glad to see the end of January – too much public interest then in the U.N. Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. March is worse, especially because of the 10 year anniversary (11th March) of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, with clean-up nowhere in sight. The half-hearted hype is now on for the Olympic Games in July. The whole plan was for the Games to demonstrate that the nuclear catastrophe was actually nothing much to worry about, and yet again, to promise a ‘nuclear renaissance’. International Women...
The testimony is generously spiked with the China threat thesis the note of warning in not being too morally shackled becomes a screech. War Mongering for Artificial Intelligence, The ghost of Edward Teller must have been doing the rounds between members of the National Commission on Artificial Intelligence. The father of the hydrogen bomb was never one too bothered by the ethical niggles that came with inventing murderous technology. It was not, for instance, “the scientist’s job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it s...
Under the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence was established in a bid to review advances in AI and...