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Category Archives: Risks

ISIS’s drones are threat, but Pentagon braces to face more-advanced ‘suicide’ aircraft – The Boston Globe

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2017/03/22/isis-drones-are-threat-but-pentagon-braces-face-more-advanced-suicide-aircraft/4op8ARJP6cciJ1ahOEy8AO/story.html

US vs. China vs. Russia: AI weapons the new arms race

http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/robotics-scientist-warns-of-terrifying-future-as-world-powers-embark-on-ai-arms-race/news-story/d61a1ce5ea50d080d595c1d9d0812bbe

AI competition experiments

https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/09/google-deepmind-ai-cooperation-research/

All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines – The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-great-forgetting/309516/

Drones will cause an upheaval of society like we haven’t seen in 700 years — Quartz

https://qz.com/185945/drones-are-about-to-upheave-society-in-a-way-we-havent-seen-in-700-years/

World’s largest hedge fund to replace managers with artificial intelligence | Technology | The Guardian

Bridgewater Associates has a team of engineers working on a project to automate decision-making to save time and eliminate human emotional volatility

Source: World’s largest hedge fund to replace managers with artificial intelligence | Technology | The Guardian

The Technium: Why I Don’t Worry About a Super AI

http://kk.org/thetechnium/why-i-dont-worry-about-a-super-ai/

Self-Driving Mercedes Will Be Programmed To Sacrifice Pedestrians To Save The Driver | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

https://www.fastcoexist.com/3064550/energy-efficiency-is-key-to-taking-on-climate-change-here-are-the-numbers-that-matter

ISIS used an armed drone to kill two Kurdish fighters and wound French troops, report says – The Boston Globe

In a possible first-of-its-kind attack on western forces, the Islamic State used a drone loaded with explosives to strike a Kurdish and French position in northern Iraq earlier this month, according to a report in the French newspaper Le Monde.

Source: ISIS used an armed drone to kill two Kurdish fighters and wound French troops, report says – The Boston Globe

Pentagon Confronts a New Threat From ISIS: Exploding Drones

The group had been using surveillance drones, but a recent attack that killed two Kurdish fighters highlighted its success in developing an effective new weapon.

Source: Pentagon Confronts a New Threat From ISIS: Exploding Drones