AGI, while powerful, could have negative consequences, warned Diveplane CEO Mike Capps and Liberty Blockchain CCO Christopher Alexander. A United Nations expert warned about an "alarming" trend of "using security rhetoric" to justify "intrusive and high-risk technologies," including artificial intelligence, to spy on social rights activists and journalists. U.N. expert Fionnuala Ní Aoláin called for a moratorium on AI development, among other advanced technologies like drones, until "adequate safeguards are in place," according to a March 2023 report that was presented to the Human Rights Council. "Exceptional justifications for the use of surveillance technologies in human rights'lite' counter-terrorism often turn into mundane regular use," Ní Aoláin said in a statement after the report's release. Without meaningful oversight, she argued, countries and private actors can use AI-power tech with impunity "under the guise of preventing terrorism." Fionnuala Ní Aoláin called for a moratorium on AI development, among other advanced technologies, until "adequate safeguards are in place."

So you should read it.) Recently Australians have been living through a predictably ugly debate around marriage equality. But of course, every country that lives through this humiliating experience needs to add it's own home-grown, jingoistic, and weirdly specific idiocy. This came in the guise of Senator Eric Abetz who claimed that marriage equality would "open the "floodgates" to people rushing to marry the Sydney Harbour Bridge." Well because there is a frequent and vociferous opposition to procedures that "use the data twice". This always surprises me, because when I do applied work [which as of yet has not involved a pre-designed RCT] I look at the data so often that I've basically married it.

The phrase'hype cycle' could have been invented for the mobile marketing industry. Typically, a new tech's day in the sun lasts anything from six – 12 months, before the next big thing comes along. Think about Native, Wearables, Programmatic, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. All came, all are still very much around, but each has been superseded by the next. And if VR was last year's big thing, AI (Artificial Intelligence) is this year's, infiltrating an increasing number of aspects of our daily lives.

From self-driving cars to robot lorries, autonomous vehicles are the future of road transportation. But who's in pole position, who's stuck in the pit lane and how far away is the starting grid? Autonomous vehicles are already on our roads. At the cutting edge there are self-driving cars being tested in pilot programmes, and they are proving perfectly capable of motoring alongside human drivers. But beyond robotic cars, many high-end vehicles available today are already practically capable of driving themselves either under the guise of passenger safety or driver convenience.