Category: AI

19th January 2023

AI in Warfare: China’s Plan to Deter Taiwan’s Independence

China is reportedly planning an AI-warfare strategy for Taiwan based on “smart deterrence” concepts, which involve using AI and other emerging technologies to influence strategic-level decision-making. According to Ni Yongjie, deputy director of the...

SDG / AI / Opinion

24th November 2020

Empowering Communities through AI

It can play a much emancipatory role in building a more just and equitable society. Last month, the Government of India organized a virtual Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) summit, RAISE 2020 (Responsible AI for...

Cyberspace / AI / Opinion

4th October 2020

Evolution or Eradication? The Dawning of the Neuralink Age

On 28 August 2020, Elon Musk’s company Neuralink divulged prototype devices along with test subjects who had these devices inserted into their brains. The belief behind these endeavors is based on the perception that...

AI / Opinion

20th February 2020

What is more disruptive with AI: Its dark potentials or our (anti-Intellectual) Ignorance?

Throughout most of the human evolution, both progress and its horizontal transmission was an extremely slow, occasional and tedious process. Well into the classic period of Alexander the Macedonian and his glorious Library of...