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Futuristic Science Fiction Bedroom Interior with Planet Earth View in Space Station, 3D Rendering

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Author
News
Date
August 8, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

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___longform, 1984 (book), Atomic bomb, Captain Kirk (Star Trek), Charles Hall, China, Clipper of the Clouds (book), George Orwell, H. G. Wells, Helicopter, Hugo Gernsback, Igor Sikorsky, Innovation, Inventions, John Brunner, Jules Verne, Leó Szilárd, Maratin Cooper, Mind at the End of its Tether (book), Mobile phone, Ralph 124C 41+ (book), Robert A. Heinlein, Science fiction, Simon Lake, Stand on Zanzibar (book), Stranger in a Strange Land, The World Set Free (book), totalitarianism, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (book), Waterbed}

When Science Fiction Comes to Life…

_{Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it sometimes grows out of it} _{News

August 8, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

A senior editor at Wired told us a while back that science fiction writer H. G. Wells’s 1914 tale, The World Set Free, formed part of the inspiration for the atomic bomb, exploded over Hiroshima in 1945. … in the novel Wells imagines a new kind of bomb, based on a nuclear chain reaction. In this science fiction story Wells imagines that atomic energy would be discovered in 1933 (20 years in his future), and that the bomb would first explode in 1956. Wikipedia notes, “As fate or coincidence would have it, in reality the physicist Leó Szilárd read the book in 1932, conceived of the idea of nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and filed for patents on it in Read More ›

The Atomic Bomb Dome Panorama in Hiroshima and the surounding garden in autumn at sunset on the side of Motoyasu River in Japan, with the Peace Memorial Park

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
August 6, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military

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Atomic bomb, Featured, George Santayana, Hiroshima, Hitler, Nagasaki, Philip Jenkins, The Case for Killer Robots, Vladimir Putin, Xinjiang}

Stark Lessons from the 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bomb

_{Nuclear weapons have not been used to destroy a city since Hiroshima and Nagasaki} _{Robert J. Marks

August 6, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Military}

Seventy-five years ago today an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Einstein’s equation E=mc2 showed that 700 milligrams of mass (m), less than a third of the weight of a US dime, could be converted to enough energy (E) to destroy a Japanese city. The atomic bomb ended WWII. Advanced technology such as the atomic bomb not only wins wars but gives pause to otherwise aggressive adversaries. For this reason, I argue in my book, The Case for Killer Robots,that the United States must continue to develop cutting edge lethal AI for military use. As described in John Hersey’s essay “Hiroshima” in the New Yorker (1946), the effects of the atomic bomb were horrifying for the civilian population. Human beings Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
February 8, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Social Factors

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_longform, Artificial Intelligence, Atomic bomb, Cold War, Featured, Radar, Sonar, Star Wars (military strategy), Underwater autonomous vehicles (UAV’s), World War II}

STEM EDUCATION 3. Killing People and Breaking Things

_{Modern history suggests that military superiority driven by technology can be a key factor in deterring aggression and preventing mass fatalities} _{Robert J. Marks

February 8, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Social Factors}

Today, better AI is the goal of the arms race. Russian President Vladimir Putin has prophesied: “Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere [AI] will become the ruler of the world.” Putin’s remarks apply to both economic and military dominance. Read More ›