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As many large companies prepare next year’s sustainability reports, it’s important to note that nobody cares. Well, very few people care, and they fall into three little buckets: First, [...]

The belief that development of a sentient or self-aware AI is simply a matter of enough data, connections, and processing speed is based on the premise that human consciousness is the product of [...]

The Hong Kong government’s new ad campaign is unconvincing in what it says, and outright frightening because of what it omits. Full-page ads have appeared in newspapers around the world, [...]

There’s pushback to the rollout of 5G infrastructure across America because it seems too fast, ugly, and potentially dangerous, according to an article in today’s Wall Street Journal. They’re all [...]

How is it that nobody at Microsoft has seen a movie in which AI super brains turn out to be a bad idea? Read the essay at A Cross of Silicon

Is monetizing the data, er, scraped from the rear ends of little pre-consumers really a must-have tech innovation? Read the essay at A Cross of Silicon

I want to believe that all of us will be itinerant, wandering poets in a future where all the work gets done by obedient robots…but there’s every reason to believe it’ll be [...]

Humans are imperfect and emotionally unstable. So should we trust one another because of those shortcomings vs. the presumed perfection of technology? Read the essay at A Cross of Silicon

If we want to continue to make progress in society, we have to find new ways to empower people to own it. Read the essay at A Cross of Silicon

An op-ed in today’s New York Times entitled “Let’s Stop Fetishizing Privacy” was a lovingly blind paean to the glories of unrestricted and unrepentant technology. The last paragraph read like a [...]