UC Colorado Springs Secretly Photographed Students For Facial Recognition Technology

Professor Terrance Boult’s surreptitious surveillance photos were taken from the building on the upper right and captured images of more … More

World Wide Surveillance System Being Created Illegally By Collecting Millions Of Photos Available Online Without Permission

People’s faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil … More

Turning Point For AI: Artificial Intelligence Now Making Decisions With ‘Human-Like Intuition’

DeepMind’s artificial intelligence programme AlphaZero is now showing signs of human-like intuition and creativity, in what developers have hailed as … More

How Political Campaigns Weaponize Social Media Bots

In the summer of 2017, a group of young political activists in the United Kingdom figured out how to use … More

Electronic Democracy: What That Means Is Digital Dictatorship, As Proven By AI-Controlled China

In 1955, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published a short story about an experiment in “electronic democracy,” in which a … More

Take That! Tech Giants Feel The Backlash For Censorship

Who knew connecting the world could get so complicated? Perhaps some of technology’s brightest minds should have seen that coming. … More