Technocracy

Big Tech in “Frantic” Push to Contain AI Backlash, Report Says

This article comes from “naturalnews.com” Big technology companies are deploying advocacy campaigns and policy arguments to counter a widening public and regulatory backlash against artificial intelligence, according to industry reporting and opinion surveys. The push comes as Americans express rising unease about the technology. Pew Research found that 52% of respondents are “more concerned than

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Flock Safety Extends Surveillance Capabilities As Sam Altman Hides In The Shadows

From “technocracy.news” Flock Safety received a startup grant from Y Combinator in 2017 when Sam Altman was President. YC bills itself as a high-touch startup accelerator that coaches early founders, connects them with a dense investor and alumni network, and prepares them to raise institutional capital. Altman always picked high-probability disruptive companies. Without Altman, Flock would never

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America Is Building a Surveillance State Like China’s

From “reason.com” “If there are Flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging and sharing your movements without a warrant,” warns the ACLU. One of the most prescient lines from George Orwell’s 1984 the 1949 dystopian classic about Big Brother, regards that fictional society’s endless surveillance: “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the

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Police AI Drones Take the Surveillance State Airborne

From “thenewamerican.com” Police departments across the country are deploying autonomous drones that can launch from rooftops, fly beyond visual range, track vehicles, and transmit live video directly to police command centers. Increasingly, artificial intelligence helps analyze those feeds, flag objects, and connect aerial surveillance with other police data. Federal funding is helping speed the buildout.

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Flock Safety Cuts Data Retention to 7 Days After Jurisdictions, Lawmakers Push Back

This article comes from “naturalnews.com” Flock Safety, one of the largest providers of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) in the nation, announced on Aug. 13 that it will reduce default data retention from 30 days to seven days, require police to attach case numbers to searches, and make automated audits mandatory for all law enforcement

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“We Have Cameras Everywhere In That Town”: The Rising Epidemic Of Flock Camera False Arrests

From “The Free Thought Project” All these wrongful arrests based on faulty Flock camera evidence is another illustration of the way people are making themselves dumber by outsourcing their thinking to machines.Today in dystopia, police have been wrongfully arresting people based on faulty information from AI-assisted Flock surveillance footage instead of actually investigating the evidence

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The World Reacts To Sam Altman’s Vision Of The Future

From “technocracy.news” Unfortunately, I think Altman is right when he says AI will “have perfect context of your whole life” and that it will occur “sometime in the next six months.” This is reminiscent of the Black Mirror episode, Nosedive, where, based on total transparency of activities, a social credit system took over society. Fantasy

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The Deadliest Lab on Earth: How AI Warfare Turns Human Lives Into Training Data

This article comes from Mike Adams via “naturalnews.com” The Battlefield Is a Laboratory Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt let the mask slip. When he described Ukraine not merely as a war but as a data collection event for the AI era, he wasn’t confiding a secret — he was confessing a crime against humanity. Ukraine

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Data centers vs. communities: The fight for water, land, and power intensifies

This article comes from “naturalnews.com” When progress threatens survival Virginia, the world’s largest data center hub, has released a long-delayed scientific study examining the state’s eastern region groundwater supply and the resource-intensive industry’s potential impact, finding that declines are likely in a critical aquifer and urging stricter regulations. The report, produced by environmental scientists and

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