AI
Henry Kissinger’s Last Crusade: Stopping Dangerous AI
By Belinda Luscombe
Nov 5, 2021
At the age of 98, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has a whole new area of interest: artificial...
First ‘living robots’ can now ‘spontaneously’ self-replicate, scientists say
30 Nov, 2021
Miniscule biological machines developed by scientists from the cells of frogs – commonly referred to as Xenobots – can now self-replicate, according...
After more than two centuries, Beethoven’s 10th Symphony has been completed...
By Julie Gaubert
Oct 14, 2021
In 2020, Ludwig van Beethoven would have turned 250.
To celebrate the composer’s genius, this year’s edition of the BeethovenFest in Bonn,...
Avec les drones et algorithmes, l’Europe construit un mur virtuel contre...
Gazeta Wyborcza (Varsovie)
Οct. 11, 2021
Loin d’être plus objectifs que les gardes-frontières humains, les robots et algorithmes de plus en plus souvent utilisés dans la...
Mossad killed Iran’s top nuke scientist with remote-operated machine gun
From command center far away, Israeli team reportedly used AI-powered weapon built into abandoned-looking vehicle to take out Fakhrizadeh; hit would have needed Trump’s...
Euphoria of the Rentier?
By Javier Moreno Zacarés
May/June 2021
Notwithstanding the cyclical downturns and occasional depressions, it is customary to speak of capitalist development as a dynamic of self-expanding...
Cyberplanning is the first step of capitalism towards a non-capitalist economy
By Professor Elena Veduta
Annotation
The inclusive capitalism of the Vatican, the new green course of the US and the EU, and the essentially liberal Chinese...
Facing Disaster: The Great Challenges Framework
By Phil Torres
Published in special issue of Foresight on existential risks. Updated Nov. 6, 2018.
Abstract: This paper provides a detailed survey of the...
Nikolai Veduta – a Soviet pioneer of introducing AI in economic...
The book "Digitalization of economic planning" by N. I. Veduta is being prepared for publication. The cybernetic approach". We introduce our readers to the abstract...
Autonomous drones may have ‘hunted down’ and attacked troops in Libya...
28 May, 2021
A UN report found that autonomous drones armed with explosive devices may have “hunted down” fleeing rebel fighters in Libya last year....