The Coming AI Wars

AIJoseph P Farrell – Mr. J.B. sent this article along, and as one might imagine, it sparked some high octane speculation that I want to end this week’s blogs with. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been much in focus in recent years, with a number of prominent figures, like Mr. Musk, raising the alarm about its potentialities.

More recently, just last week I blogged about Henry Kissinger’s own alarm about AI. In that blog, I pointed out that Musk’s version of the scenario is that it might actually transduce some entity or being of evil nature into its artificial neurons and circuits, what I called “The Devil Scenario.”

I also speculated in that blog that perhaps the “elites” like Mr. Kissinger are afraid of the opposite scenario to Musk’s, one that does not get discussed very much, and that it the so-called “Angel” scenario, where an AI might “transduce” some entity that determines that the current globaloney crop of misfits, cultural Marxists, Darth Soroses and crony crapitalists are a threat to humanity, and… well, you know. Perhaps, I thought in that blog, the “elites” are seeing certain signs of that or a similar scenario, and they don’t like what they see. Either way, I’m still of the opinion some developed form of AI is already here.

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Google Now Has Access To Millions of Patients’ Medical Records

dataMichaela Whitton – A controversial deal between tech giant Google and the National Health Service (NHS) will allow artificial intelligence units access to 1.6 million confidential medical records. Since 2014, Google has partnered with several scientists in an attempt to understand human health, but a new report reveals the data gathering goes far beyond what was originally anticipated.

According to documents obtained by the New Scientist, the data sharing agreement between Google-owned artificial intelligence company DeepMind and the Royal Free NHS Trust gives access to the sensitive healthcare data of millions of NHS patients. The chilling and wide-reaching deal allows DeepMind access to the medical records of the 1.6 million people passing annually through the three London hospitals owned by the Trust — Barnet, Chase Farm, and the Royal Free.

The Google-owned A.I. firm announced in February it was working with the NHS to build an app called Streams — intended to help hospitals monitor patients with kidney disease. However, the new information has revealed that the extent of the data being shared goes much further and includes logs of day-to-day hospital activity, records of the location and status of patients, and even logs of who visits them and when.

 

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