AI & RoboticsNews

Over 20 AI leaders, including Marc Andreessen, will appear at 2nd Senate AI Insight Forum tomorrow

October 24, 2023
Twenty-one AI leaders will appear tomorrow at the 2nd Senate AI Insight Forum. The event comes over a month after what was supposed to be the first of nine forums in which all 100 senators have the opportunity to get a crash course on a variety of issues related to AI, including copyright, workforce issues, national security, high risk AI models, existential risks, privacy, transparency and…
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CryptoNews

Join the Economic Freedom Nexus — No BS Crypto News in the Context of Permissionless Exchange – Op-Ed Bitcoin News

October 24, 2023
We all know central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are the furthest thing there is from actual cryptocurrency. That “financial inclusion” usually just means more laws preventing poor people from free exchange and survival in broken, state-run fiat madhouses. The Economic Freedom Nexus is a new bi-monthly newsletter sent straight to your inbox contextualizing the latest in crypto and finance…
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DefenseNews

Longtime Defense News Turkey correspondent Burak Bekdil dies at 57

October 23, 2023
Longtime Defense News contributor journalist Burak Ege Bekdil died in an Ankara hospital following surgery complications after a prior motorbike accident, according to family and colleagues in Turkey. Bekdil had a decades-long career in journalism, writing for Turkish outlets on politics and international relations, as well as English-language defense publications such as Defense News, where his…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Snoop Dogg, sentient AI and the ‘Arrival Mind Paradox’

October 23, 2023
Like many longtime technologists, I am deeply worried about the dangers of AI, both for its near-term risk to society and its long-term threat to humanity. Back in 2016 I put a date on my greatest concerns, warning that we could achieve Artificial Superintelligence by 2030 and Sentient Superintelligence soon thereafter. My words got attention back then, but often for the wrong reasons — with…
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