Before AI robot ethics, shouldn’t we focus on establishing medical ethics? Western medicine remains largest threat to human life
Whether or not autonomous weapons should have rights is a question that has received a lot of attention in recent years. In the same way vegetarians pushed for animal rights, artificial intelligence enthusiasts are pushing to extend legal rights to social robots. Unlike animals, however, robots aren’t sentient, and aren’t expected to be sentient anytime Read More
So-called “Email Privacy Act” actually a Big Brother Orwellian email spy bill that requires corporations to violate your privacy in the name of “security”
The Fourth Amendment is under attack in an age of electronic surveillance and expanding government. The Email Privacy Act, H.R. 699, and its Senate companion bill S. 356, is marching toward bipartisan agreement in Congress. The legislation would give government agencies access to your email, text messages and documents without a warrant from storage systems Read More
Transhumanist presidential candidate proposes microchipping citizens’ brains to establish authoritarian control over humans
Transhumanist presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan proposed that behavior-correcting brain implants could be used as a substitute for capital punishment, according to a recent article published in Motherboard. Istvan argues that violent behavior is a mental disorder that requires outside assistance, in the same way a heart with an irregular beat requires a pacemaker. According to Read More
Police arrest man for shooting down trespassing drone spying on sunbathing 16-year-old
A Kentucky man was recently arrested for shooting down a drone that trespassed his private property. It was a typical Sunday afternoon before William H. Merideth’s daughter alerted him that a drone was flying over the neighbors’ yards. It stayed hovering in one neighbor’s yard before their sunbathing 16-year-old daughter waved and it took off. Read More