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Security camera on modern building. Professional surveillance cameras. CCTV on the wall in the city. Security system, technology. Video equipment for safety system area control outdoor. AI generated.
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September 26, 2023
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When Video Surveillance Gets It Wrong

An incident in Argentina calls the country's facial recognition tech into serious question
News
September 26, 2023
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A new in-depth report from Wired recounts the story of an Argentinian man, Guillermo Ibarrola, who was falsely accused of a crime and pinpointed via video surveillance. According to Wired, Ibarrola spent nearly a week in custody before the “mixup” was spotted and authorities realized they had nabbed the wrong Guillermo Ibarrola. It was a data entry mistake. The case is only one of many others in Argentina’s mishaps with video surveillance, and how data mistakes can end up impacting innocent lives significantly. Karen Naundorf writes, When speaking of South America, mass surveillance technology is likely not the first thing that comes to mind. But a study by the data protection organization Access Now shows Argentina is one of the most surveilled Read More ›

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Medical Development Laboratory: Caucasian Female Scientist Looking Under Microscope, Analyzes Petri Dish Sample. Specialists Working on Medicine, Biotechnology Research in Advanced Pharma Lab
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September 10, 2023
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Technology
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Killing Diseases and Living Longer

Can innovations in biotechnology enhance and lengthen human life?
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September 10, 2023
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Technology

Can innovations in biotechnology enhance and lengthen human life? This is question typical to the COSM Conference, where today’s leading voices in tech and science converge to discuss the potentials of the present and the vision of the future. Here, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards interviews Matt Scholz, CEO Of OISON Biotechnologies, on new approaches to killing disease and living longer.  (REGISTER NOW FOR COSM 2023) COSM is an exclusive national summit on the converging technologies remaking the world as we know it. From artificial intelligence to 5G and WiFi6, from tokenized time to blockchain, from cloud computing to the quantum revolution, and from biotech to the nanotech revolution, COSM brings together some of the greatest minds of our Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 7, 2023
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Technocracy
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The Technocracy Continues to Grow

We live in a time where individual freedom is under material threat from an emerging technocracy
Wesley J. Smith
September 7, 2023
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Technocracy

Readers may recall two cases from the UK: Alfie Evans and Charlie Gard, infants with catastrophic illnesses whom the courts did not allow to be taken out of their hospitals — as desired by their parents — to receive treatment elsewhere. Now, also in the UK, a conscious and capable 19-year-old patient, referred to in legal documents as “ST,” with an apparent terminal disease has been told by a court that she can’t decide to continue life-extending treatment after the hospital sued to be able to move her to palliative care against her will. From the legal ruling involving the National Health Service Trust (emphasis added): The Trust’s case is that ST is “actively dying”. It became clear during the course of the oral evidence I heard Read More ›

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Toraja Indonesia Weaving
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Robert J. Marks and Andrew McDiarmid
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July 14, 2022
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Weaving the Technology of Our Lives

Robert J. Marks and Andrew McDiarmid
July 14, 2022
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We have the ability to choose how to weave technology into our lives. How can we use technology in a healthy way? What are the consequences of being always connected and having everything available instantaneously? Andrew McDiarmid discusses technology, digital wellness, and freedom with Robert J. Marks. Additional Resources Andrew McDiarmid’s website Andrew McDiarmid at Discovery.org How to Glorify God Read More ›

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Atom Particle
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Michael Egnor
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November 16, 2020
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Philosophy of Mind, Science
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A Materialist Gives Up on Determinism

Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne undercuts his own argument against free will by admitting that quantum phenomena are real
Michael Egnor
November 16, 2020
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Philosophy of Mind, Science

Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne has denied free will for years. But most recently, he has said something that puts the whole matter in doubt. A bit of background: Free will simply cannot be real if determinism is true, that is, if everything in nature falls like dominoes after the first one is pushed: If nature is truly like that, our acts, like those of the dominoes, are wholly determined by natural history and physical laws that we do not control. Nearly all arguments against free will depend critically on determinism. But there is a central problem with determinism: It is clear from physics that determinism in nature is not true. In 1964, theoretical physicist John Bell (1928–1990) proposed relatively simple Read More ›

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Robert J. Marks
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July 2, 2020
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John Lennox: How Will Artificial Intelligence Impact the World by 2084?

Robert J. Marks
July 2, 2020
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What will be the effects of artificial intelligence by the year 2084? Robert J. Marks and Dr. John Lennox discuss artificial general intelligence, threats and advantages of artificial intelligence, and Dr. Lennox’s book 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. Show Notes 00:46 | Introducing Dr. John Lennox, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University 01:34 | Reasons for Read More ›

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Mind Matters
Date
November 2, 2018
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Ethics, Machine Learning, Social Factors
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A chilling snippet from mass surveillance in China

China is helping other countries restrict their citizens’ internet, while shunning the U.S.
Mind Matters
November 2, 2018
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Ethics, Machine Learning, Social Factors
Overall, governments worldwide are restricting the freedom of the internet, especially around election times, and the big social media companies are conspicuous by their silence.   Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks
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November 1, 2018
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The End of Human Drama

Part 3: Yuval Harari on the end of democracy, volition, religion, and art?
Robert J. Marks
November 1, 2018
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In this third part of their reflection on Yuval Harari’s Atlantic piece anticipating technology’s march toward tyranny, Jay Richards and Robert J. Marks discuss the many assumptions therein. At the root of these speculations is an overestimation of the power of information processing systems and an underestimation of the human ability to be the true governors of their creations, not their docile “pets”. Harari rightly points to a better understanding of the mind as the way forward, but fails to appreciate its true nature, resulting in a dismal prognosis for art, religion, and democracy. Read More ›