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Unter Trump braut sich ein neuer Faschismus zusammen, meint der Philosoph Rainer Mühlhoff. Denn dieser Faschismus sei geprägt von den Ideologien des Silicon Valley und vom Einsatz Künstlicher Intelligenz im Staatsapparat.

USA unter Trump: KI-Faschismus made in Silicon Valley Tech-Ideologien und der Einsatz Künstlicher Intelligenz im Staatsapparat prägen laut Philosoph Rainer Mühlhoff einen neuen Faschismus in den USA.

Tech-Optimism Bias —

"Embedded in nearly all of our future-oriented analyses is an assumption that global economic activity (global gross domestic product) will increase steadily throughout this century. No techno-economic model that I am aware of investigates global economic collapse. Leaders in government and the private sector, who constitute the desired audience for such scenarios, would not wish to be seen taking global dysfunction seriously."

Global collapse is in view - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists In light of Putin's decision to make nuclear weapons look usable, it has become all too clear that the global scientific community must reinvent the informal, cooperative, scientist-to-scientist relationships that once were so valuable. Not just Russia’s scientists, but China’s too must particip...

Critical Thinker Nikola Danaylov on how Tech will not save the Future.

"Technology is the new religion, Silicon Valley is the new chosen land and entrepreneurs are the new chosen people. They promise a future that is better than we think – a techno-heaven of abundance and, naturally, immortality. And we are all believers now."

Nikola Danaylov at Dark Futures: NeoTechnocracy – The Future is Worse than You Think A short speech on neotechnocracy I did for Dark Futures. Not my finest keynote but I thought I'd share it and get your critical feedback.

Ex-Google Design Ethicist Tristan Harris on and Human Downgrading

Ex-Google Design Ethicist Tristan Harris on Technology and Human Downgrading Ex-Google Ethicist Tristan Harris on human downgrading and how Silicon Valley's extractive attention economy is tearing apart our shared social fabric.

"AI is best understood as a political and social ideology rather than as a basket of algorithms. The core of the ideology is that a suite of technologies, designed by a small technical elite, can and should become autonomous from and eventually replace, rather than complement, not just individual humans but much of humanity. Given that any such replacement is a mirage, this ideology has strong resonances with other historical ideologies, such as technocracy and central-planning-based forms of socialism, which viewed as desirable or inevitable the replacement of most human judgement/agency with systems created by a small technical elite."

AI is An Ideology, Not A Technology At its core, "artificial intelligence" is a perilous belief that fails to recognize the agency of humans.

Eudaemonia in times of Digitization —

» Happiness in the digital age: Free PDF with the complete 9th chapter of my book ‘Technology vs Humanity’! [Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker] My 2016 book Technology vs Humanity is still going strong; in fact it's roaring, with new translations such as Russian and Chinese, and others coming soon. Many topics first mentioned in the book have become mainstream and global memes, such as Digital Ethics. Last week,...

EVENT 201 – Corona – Digitization – Cybernetics?

The wet dream of the World Economic Forum and the tech companies of Silicon Valley is a dystopia for all those who will be left behind on the way to "perfecting" mankind/h+. We don't need another industrial revolution – but an ecological evolution, renaturation of the wasteland left behind by industrialization.

What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Ubiquitous, mobile supercomputing. Artificially-intelligent robots. Self-driving cars. Neuro-technological brain enhancements. Genetic editing. The evidence ...

"Where humans remain valuable, at least temporarily, is in training their replacements. "

Silicon Valley Is Using Our Own Intelligence to Make Us Obsolete How workers unknowingly train their robot replacements

Resist the beginnings!

FBI sent a team to 'exploit' Portland protesters' phones The FBI sent a team to Portland with the aim of exploiting protesters' phones.

On Google's (broken) wet dream:

Incorrect calculations by "AI" are caused by the fact that machines cannot completely predict human behavior as algorithms work pretty specific and not "intelligent" in the holistic meaning of human intelligence. Even humans cannot predict human behavior. These wrong calculations as basis, lead again to wrong interpretations and conclusions on human behavior. Taking these errors as facts, is a human mistake.