Artificial Intelligence (AI) Heralds a Post-human Era of Economic, Social and Moral Upheavals

 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Heralds a Post-human Era of Economic, Social and Moral Upheavals By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and of work-automation is progressing rapidly with many potential applications and benefits in many areas. It is going to define the economic future. Read here

The Israelization of the United States Military Is Proceeding. “Where and How Will it All End? Ask Donald Trump!” By Philip Giraldi Currently Israel and its friends in Washington are moving to complete integration of many aspects of how our military operates at various levels with Israeli counterparts. No other US “ally,” which the Jewish state is not technically, including NATO members, has anything like this access and ability to influence developments. Read here

The Abundance Paradigm: The AI Revolution: Where Capitalism Meets Socialism — Part II By Ellen Brown For centuries, industrial economies have depended on a productive cycle based on work for pay. People work for wages, wages create consumer demand, and demand sustains production. But if machines increasingly perform not only factory labor but office and laboratory work — drafting contracts, diagnosing disease, designing products, writing software, driving vehicles, conducting research — then labor income will steadily decline even as productivity rises. Read here

Is Europe Being Drawn into a New Great War? By Ret Admiral Cem Gürdeniz Europe is experiencing the most dangerous security crisis of the post-Cold War period. The real problem is not the possibility of war, but the erosion of the crisis management capacity of the parties. Read here

Trump’s Failed Attempts to “Reindustrialize America”. A One Trillion+ Military Budget to Supercharge America’s “AI-run Drone Wars” By Drago Bosnic The US government is working with its vassals and satellite states around the world to supercharge its rapidly growing unmanned and AI sector of the MIC. This is particularly true for the Neo-Nazi junta, as the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict allows America to perfect its drone and AI warfare. Read here

Beyond the Yellow Line: Israel Seizes More of Gaza By Dr. Binoy Kampmark The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has expressed concerns the seizure of even more land by the Israeli forces will only worsen a situation where food, water and hygiene are lacking. UNICEF spokesman Salim Oweis, speaking from Gaza to reporters based in Geneva, noted how people had “been crammed into around 40 percent of the space.” Read here

Platform World – The Digital Colonization of Everyday Life By Hans Rainer Hemken The digital present is transforming societies and cities no less profoundly than earlier upheavals brought about by industrialization, trade, or mass tourism. The decisive difference lies in the speed, global reach, and depth of penetration. The digital world is the front-runner. Classical production and trade structures have become data-driven infrastructures. Read here