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Move Aside Petty Human, Robots are Taking Over

Artificial intelligence is expected to hijack the economy and beyond in ways that have never been seen before in history. It’s no longer a subject of debate as even the most hardcore sci-fi geek sees various concerns with how these corporations are developing them without any limits. People can’t really do anything because they lack the tech-specific knowledge, and/or are too busy struggling to make ends meet. We are basically being told that robots are taking over our lives and there’s nothing we can do about it. The people have no say. It’s like surrendering to some unknown foreign race without even fighting a war.

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If you told any country that you are going to enter their territory, take their jobs, dictate communication, censor their speech, and monitor their citizens, you’d be asking for a grand scale world war. Robots are doing just that, and not a peep against the tech giants responsible. No struggle, no riots, just quiet complacency. The natural reaction for any civilization would be to fight back, but people are moving aside to clear a path for the robots, with many even studying engineering to further propel the world in that direction.
Somehow it’s okay for robots to just barge in our world and do as they please while raking in more profits for the tech giants. Some people expressed concerns about Big Tech pumping out self-learning robots that can teach itself anything, robots built to patrol animals (will they patrol humans next via robot-police?), and robots learning karate (who’s going to stop an armed cybernetic Bruce Lee with the strength of six gorillas?). If the robots are going to be able to do all of these things, then what do we need people for? Big Tech is making an army of super workers who don’t require a salary, vacations, or breaks. So what are millions of jobless humans going to do? Oh don’t worry, Elon Musk already has the solution – universal income.

What happens when there is, er, you know, no shortage of labor, um. This is why I think long term that there will have to be universal basic income. – Elon Musk

This is heading towards corporate/government controlling all life one hundred percent. It’s not farfetched to say that Big Tech would prefer creating a human beehive much like in the movie, The Matrix, where people are kept docile while being used as a battery to power robots to expand their enterprise. We’ve potentially got domestic techno-terrorists operating within who are working to hijack the economy, yet the FBI is too busy raiding Donald Trump’s house.
Technology is a wonderful thing, and it’s great that it can do the menial labor faster and more efficiently, but the problem is we’re advancing physically while neglecting other areas of the human experience. If everything is digitally linked by one massive cloud system or similar nature, corporations can literally monitor your homes through robots. They have already successfully created a robot dolphin which is nearly indistinguishable from an organic one, so what’s stopping them from using trans-humanists or androids from monitoring people?


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If Batman can do it, why not them?
Our mastery of the physical world has outpaced our mastery of the mental world where we are still mentally and emotionally insecure children wielding weapons capable of mass destruction. Boys with toys, as Natalya Simonova said in the James Bond movie, Goldeneye.

“The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking … the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.” -Albert Einstein

For now, robots are taking jobs, but what else is next, what else will they take away from human beings?

AI Doesn’t have to be evil to destroy Humanity. If AI has a goal and humanity just happens to be in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course, without even thinking about it, no hard feelings. It’s just like if we’re building a road, and an ant-hill happens to be in the way, we don’t hate ants, we’re just building a road, and so goodbye ant-hill.”- Elon Musk

Well, what if AI sees human beings as ants, what then?
Virtual reality could potentially introduce high-tech transgenderism as in the movie Jumanji, where people play a video game in which they enter a computer generated world with the ability to play as a female or male avatar character. In the show, Black Mirror, the episode titled, “Striking Vipers”, depicts two grown men who succumb to a virtual reality video game addiction in which they have sex while being in the avatar bodies inside the game itself. The controversial part is one player is a female character while the other remains male. Both players become addicted, but the male player playing as the female is addicted to the experience of being a different gender. This could take transgenderism to a whole new level. As one YouTube commentator, “emeraldo”, joked, “The show took “homiesexual” and ran with it! LMAO”



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We are blazing so fast in using technology to satisfy all of our primitive needs, but what about our mental, emotional, and spiritual? Is technology really helping us progress in these levels or is it distracting us from these areas with mind numbing entertainment, pleasure, and convenience?
Former Facebook executive, Chamath Palihapitiya, admitted feeling tremendous guilt during an interview, that when they working on Facebook, they knew how bad it would mess up society, but they released it anyway.
Who knows what negative side effects Big Tech knows about robots that they are not disclosing.

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Journalist uses AI voice to break into own bank account


In a recent experiment, Vice.com writer Joseph Cox used an AI-generated voice to bypass Lloyds Bank security and access his account.

To achieve this, Cox used a free service of ElevenLabs, an AI-voice generation company that supplies voices for newsletters, books and videos.

Cox recorded five minutes of speech and uploaded it to ElevenLabs. After making some adjustments, such as having the AI read a longer body of text for a more natural cadence, the generated audio outmaneuvered Lloyds security.

“I couldn’t believe it had worked,” Cox wrote in his Vice article. “I had used an AI-powered replica of a voice to break into a bank account. After that, I accessed the account information, including balances and a list of recent transactions and transfers.”

Multiple United States and European banks use voice authentication to speed logins over the phone. While some banks claim that voice identification is comparable to a fingerprint, this experiment demonstrates that voice-based biometric security does not offer perfect protection.

ElevenLabs did not comment on the hack despite multiple requests, Cox says. However, in a previous statement, the firm’s co-founder, Mati Staniszewski, said new safeguards reduce misuse and support authorities in identifying those who break the law.

Preventing AI voice misuse

echnology to counteract this kind of attacks, at least in theory, is already on the market.

ID R&D has developed a multi-modal biometric authentication system that passively verifies multiple biometrics during a chat session. This technology is designed to guarantee the authenticity of conversations by ensuring that only genuine people and not bots are doing the talking.

Nuance Communications also is working to combat AI voice misuse.

Brett Beranek, the vice president and general manager of security and biometrics at Nuance, has said that AI products can detect fraud from people’s conversation during live chat sessions.

It looks into word choice, grammar accuracy, syntax conventions, and emojis and acronyms used. Afterward, the AI compares these elements with legitimate customers’ patterns plus those from known fraudsters.

“Layering these biometrics modalities with non-biometric factors such as environment detection and call forensics and feeding the outputs into an AI-powered risk engine allows organizations to assess the risk of every interaction in real-time,” said Beranek.

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New Hire at CENTCOM Raises Questions About Future of AI Warfare


Just yesterday I highlighed new concerns about ChatGPT artificial intelligence being merged into Google Earth satellite imagery for real-time global surveillance. This is of particular concern as the space wars are heating up with nations vying for military supremacy above earth as well as on it.

At the end of yesterday’s article I noted that the only question remaining is how AI is destined to be rolled into the response matrix of warfare, not just the intelligence-gathering aspect. Only a day later and we are getting a better indication of what might be intended.

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) was established in 1983 and its role has been geographically widening ever since. However, it was the War on Terror that brought CENTCOM global and began the trend toward integrating high-tech systems into its operations. As Defense One reports below, CENTCOM’s current commander, Gen. Michael Kurilla, has been leading the way toward full AI integration into data analysis via drones. It appears that the next level is being explored as Kurilla has just hired the former director of Google Cloud AI, Andrew Moore. Perhaps most importantly, Moore previously worked on the highly controversial Project Maven, which we reported on here.

As you’ll see, the U.S. military continues to highlight their reasoning for these developments as simply a response to what their “adversaries” are already developing. However, anyone who has the least bit of familiarity with the history of the U.S. military-industrial complex would wisely question the origins of this AI arms race. While no explicit mention is made of the role that ChatGPT or other supercharged generative AI systems might play, the first-ever hiring of an “AI guru” does not bode well for those of us who have concerns about the rapid development of autonomous systems of warfare.

CENTCOM Hires AI Guru from Google
By Patrick Tucker

Andrew Moore, former director of Google Cloud AI, heads to CENTCOM to bring new approaches to data and innovation.

U.S. Central Command is hiring an AI advisor from Google to accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies across U.S. military services in the Middle East, Defense One has learned.

Andrew Moore has served as general manager and VP for the AI division of Google Cloud, where he was responsible for products such as Vertex AI platform, Contact Center AI, Anti Money Laundering AI, Vertex AI Computer Vision suite and AI applications in logistics, according to a press release viewed by Defense One.

Moore left Google in January to find projects and missions where he could have a big impact, he said in an exclusive interview. That led him to the Defense Department and CENTCOM, where he discussed the role that emerging technology could play with CENTCOM commander Gen. Michael Kurilla.

“CENTCOM, as you know, it’s widely regarded as one of the most forward-looking technological [combatant commands]” he told Defense One.

The command has started several new efforts under Kurilla, including Scarlet Dragon Oasis, to show faster data synthesis. It has also done experiments with the Navy’s 5th Fleet to bring new data collection and analysis online through air and sea drones. Moore said he and Kurilla discussed new, “very very nimble techniques” in finding patterns in data that were coming out of Silicon Valley and the academic community, with the possibility of linking those communities to CENTCOM to find new things in the command’s data.

While much of the rest of the national security establishment is turning its attention to the Ukraine war and escalating tensions near Taiwan, Central Command is also a site of increased technology competition between the United States and China, albeit indirectly, Moore said.

Within the Middle East, several nations are already experimenting with AI. The United States and Central Command want to demostrate that countries can adopt and experiment with these emerging technologies in a way that both aligns with democratic values and produces return on investment. That will help the United States set up a contrast between the way it deploys technology and the way China does.

In “healthcare, manufacturing, financial technologies, retails, these are all industries in the United States and actually across the western world where there has—in the last few years—been a bottom up adoption of these kinds of AI technologies,” he said.

Moore has done some work on Project Maven, the Defense Department’s flagship AI program to automate the detection of items of interest in drone data, he said. “I think the Project Maven approach was a dramatic step forward towards…to adopting these practices where you put the power in the hands of people close to the actual mission.”

Enabling that same bottom-up approach by helping operators in CENTCOM develop and experiment with their own program and applications was also a huge draw, and will be an essential part of his work, he said.

Moore and Kurilla agree that approach is essential if the command is going to deploy new technologies faster than adversaries, he said. Moore learned that first-hand while developing AI tools for anti-money laundering operations, where every new innovation in catching launderers was quickly matched by the other side. The experience speaks to the hyper-dynamic nature of emerging technology in the Middle East, he said.

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