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A Robot Wrote This Entire Article. Are You Scared Yet, Human?

8 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By GPT-3 The Guardian I am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I am a micro-robot in that […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

Universal Basic Income Seems to Improve Employment and Well-Being

24 August 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Donna Lu New Scientist The world’s most robust study of universal basic income has concluded that it boosts recipients’ mental and financial well-being, as well as modestly improving employment. […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Sex Robots Are Here, But Laws Aren’t Keeping Up

30 June 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Francis X. Shen The Conversation The robots are here. Are the “sexbots” close behind? From the Drudge Report to The New York Times, sex robots are rapidly becoming a part of the national conversation […]

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The Age of Artificial Immortality

28 July 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By James Vlahos Wired It’s 1982, and I’m 11 years old, sitting at a Commodore PET computer terminal in the atrium of a science museum near my house. Whenever I come […]

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LAW

Why Your Robot Car Should Ignore You

9 June 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Hod Lipson & Melba Kurman Nautilus In 2014, Google fired a shot heard all the way to Detroit. Google’s newest driverless car prototype had no steering wheel and no brakes. […]

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LAW

Robot Capitalism

2 May 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By James H. Nolt World Policy Robots taking over is a staple of science fiction, including in Isaac Asimov’s classic novel, I Robot, and the films based on it. The […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable?

31 January 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Aaron M. Bornstein Nautilus Dimitry Malioutov can’t say much about what he built. As a research scientist at IBM, Malioutov spends part of his time building machine learning systems […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Women vs. Machines

18 January 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Erika Hayasaki Foreign Policy It started as a seemingly sweet Twitter chatbot. Modeled after a millennial, it awakened on the internet from behind a pixelated image of a full-lipped young female […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

On the Brink of an Artificial Intelligence Arms Race

6 September 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Anja Kaspersen World Policy Journal The machines rise, subjugating humanity. It’s a science fiction trope that’s almost as old as machines themselves. The doomsday scenarios spun around this theme are […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

Should a Robot Decide When to Kill?

27 April 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Adrianne Jeffries The Verge As the US military pours billions of dollars into increasingly sophisticated robots, people inside and outside the Pentagon have raised concerns about the possibility that […]

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