“What everybody needs to understand,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said, “is that the day China takes Taiwan without the U.S. being able to stop them will be a linchpin moment in human history.” In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek sat down with Rubio to discuss how the Chinese regime has…
Sen. Marco Rubio: US Reliance on Chinese-Made Pharmaceuticals and Critical Technology Could Help Hand Taiwan to the Regime
Google Engineer Warns About ‘Sentient’ Behavior of Company’s AI, Gets Suspended
A Google engineer has been suspended after raising concerns about an artificial intelligence (AI) program he and a collaborator is testing, which he believes behaves like a human “child.” Google put one of its senior software engineers in its Responsible AI ethics group, Blake Lemoine, on paid administrative leave on June 6 for breaching “confidentiality…
Engineer Warns About Google AI‘s ‘Sentient’ Behavior, Gets Suspended
A Google engineer has been suspended after raising concerns about an artificial intelligence (AI) program he and a collaborator is testing, which he believes behaves like a human “child.” Google put one of its senior software engineers in its Responsible AI ethics group, Blake Lemoine, on paid administrative leave on June 6 for breaching “confidentiality…
Gen. Milley Warns West Point Graduates on Likelihood of War With Russia and China
The top U.S. general told the U.S. Military Academy West Point’s class of 2022 that the nature of war is changing and the current rules-based international order is being threatened by Russia and China. “Right now, at this very moment, a fundamental change is happening in the very character of war,” Chairman of the Joint…
Gen. Milley Warns West Point Graduates of Likelihood of War With Russia, China
The top U.S. general told the U.S. Military Academy West Point’s class of 2022 that the nature of war is changing and the current rules-based international order is being threatened by Russia and China. “Right now, at this very moment, a fundamental change is happening in the very character of war,” Joint Chiefs of Staff…
Defence and Tech Experts Call for Australia to Build In-House AI Capability
Australia must establish its sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) research and innovation capability to avoid being left behind other countries, a report released on Monday has found. “Artificial Intelligence: Your Questions Answered,” a collaboration between the University of Adelaide’s Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), is a collection of…
China Destabilizes the World Through Militarized Drone Exports
News Analysis China’s drones are militarizing the world. From Ukraine to Burma, they make the battlefield more deadly for democracy. That must be the point. Beijing ignores calls for limitations on military equipment, even when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) knows that its drones are used for war crimes against unarmed civilians. Neither are the…
Drone Used to Locate Fallen Meteorite in Australia
A student researcher from Western Australia’s Curtain University has used a drone to help pinpoint the location of a meteorite fragment on the remote Nullarbor Plain. Thousands of small meteorites are thought to hit Earth’s surface each year, but for every impact witnessed almost 800 space rock chunks land in oceans or remote landscapes and…
Google-Backed Artificial Intelligence Taught to Control Nuclear Fusion Reactor
DeepMind, the UK-based subsidiary of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has taught artificial intelligence how to control a nuclear fusion reactor. The company announced on Feb. 16 that it had used AI to successfully control superheated matter inside a nuclear fusion reactor, and their findings are detailed in a paper published in the journal, Nature. DeepMind whose long-term goal is…
China’s Military: From ‘Informationization’ to ‘Intelligent Warfare’
News Analysis China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been undergoing a profound transformation since at least the turn of the century. In the first place, it has spent years pursuing a “double construction” approach of mechanization and “informationization.” This “two-track” approach called for the near-term modernization of “existing equipment combined with the selective introduction of…
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