The internet is currently controlled through searching, and if Google single-handedly dominates the means through which searching works, then Google effectively controls the internet. Recently, a judge officially ruled that “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one…
The dystopian novel The Singularity by Dino Buzzati came out in 1960. It’s about a reclusive scientist who tries to create a sentient artificial intelligence (AI) based on his deceased wife. In the end, the machine starts to envy the humans…
Over the past two years, reports of generative AI (GenAI) abuse have become commonplace. It’s rather less common for these reports to come from Google, whose GenAI Gemini has repeatedly earned notoriety. To its credit, though, the software giant has…
Let’s put a final nail in the coffin of Wikipedia as a politically unbiased source of information. In a recently released report, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow and research scientist David Rozado demonstrates that Wikipedia routinely confers more positive treatment upon…
It was a proud moment when the Philippines, where I lived for over five years, became the first country to accept biotech Golden Rice. That was in 2021. It’s now a dismal moment that the nation’s highest courts, acting independently…
Do you have a conservative face or a liberal face? Take a look in the mirror and answer yourself as soon as possible because it is quite possible that your ideology — at least what some robot thinks about it…
The war in Ukraine has had one positive effect. It is waking up our defense establishment to the fact that we are still fighting the last (lost) wars. Success today demands recognizing that technology creates new problems that require human…
It seems that most people have started to tune out the latest developments in artificial intelligence. That’s probably because, while many of those developments feel as though they belong in the prologue of an epic sci-fi novel, computer scientists and…
Last month the House of Representatives advanced bipartisan legislation requiring Chinese company ByteDance to sell its widely used video app TikTok, or have it banned in the United States. Meanwhile, former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced he would assemble a…
