‘Kalashnikovs of tomorrow’: Hawking, Musk, Wozniak warn of global AI arms race
Artificial intelligence, especially weaponized, is a huge mistake, tech gurus and scientific geniuses warn in a newly-released open letter. Professor Stephen Hawking, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Tesla CEO Elon Musk are among 1,000 signatories. The luminaries believe that for the last 20 years we have been dangerously preoccupied with making strides in the direction […]
Julian Assange: WikiLeaks fully back up and ‘We Are Drowning in Material’
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks via video link during an event on the sidelines of the United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva in July. Assange talks about the comeback of WikiLeaks whistleblowing platform and his desire to provide assistance to a parliamentary committee in Germany investigating mass NSA spying in this interview with […]
World powers and Iran ‘on verge of nuclear deal’
Iran and six world powers meeting in Vienna are said to be close to an historic nuclear agreement that could resolve a dispute that lasted more than 12 years over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday that he could not rule out the possibility of an agreement in the coming hours, […]