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Category Archives: politics
“People want more of the good and less of the bad of globalization”
5 Mega-Trends (World Economic Forum)
The Loneliness of the Modern Age (Hannah Arendt)
“where in a sense consumption takes the place of all truly relating activities – meaning, insights and experience of the highest political status more and more withdraw the the experiential horizon of the average human existence”
Hannah Arendt
UN calls for moratorium on AI that threatens human rights
AI’s abilities to conduct profiling and automate decision-making – as well as its other uses – threaten myriad human rights. It can affect the “rights to health, education, freedom of movement, freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and freedom of expression,” the UN human rights office warned.
‘Lie Flat’ If You Want, But Be Ready to Pay the Price
Upper-middle-class, well-educated young Americans are getting in on the protest movement started in China. But they may not understand what it will cost them.
Lobster Gangs and Debunking “The Tragedy of the Commons” – YES! Magazine
Lobster Gangs and Debunking “The Tragedy of the Commons”
Source: Lobster Gangs and Debunking “The Tragedy of the Commons” – YES! Magazine
Detecting Conspiracy Theories on Social Media (RAND)
Improving Machine Learning to Detect and Understand Online Conspiracy Theories Read more (RAND)
by William Marcellino, Todd C. Helmus, Joshua Kerrigan, Hilary Reininger, Rouslan I. Karimov, Rebecca Ann Lawrence
NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INITIATIVE
Welcome to AI.gov, home of the National AI Initiative and connection point to ongoing activities to advance U.S. leadership in AI. The National AI Initiative Act of 2020 became law on January 1, 2021, providing for a coordinated program across the entire Federal government to accelerate AI research and application for the Nation’s economic prosperity and national security. The mission of the National AI Initiative is to ensure continued U.S. leadership in AI research and development, lead the world in the development and use of trustworthy AI in the public and private sectors, and prepare the present and future U.S. workforce for the integration of AI systems across all sectors of the economy and society. https://www.ai.gov/
Climate crisis: our children face wars over food and water, EU deputy warns
Older people will have to make sacrifices in the fight against climate change or today’s children will face a future of fighting wars for water and food, the EU’s deputy chief has warned.
Frans Timmermans, vice-president of the EU commission, said that if social policy and climate policy are not combined, to share fairly the costs and benefits of creating a low-carbon economy, the world will face a backlash from people who fear losing jobs or income, stoked by populist politicians and fossil fuel interests. Read more (Guardian)
