Algorithms are Destroying Society

You were taught to share before you understood ownership.To sit still before you understood why. To raise your hand before you understood who gave anyone the right to decide when you could speak.Nobody called it conditioning. They called it growing up.By the time you reached scho ...  Show more

Four humans left Earth for the Moon. The first in 53 years.We named the program after Apollo's twin sister. Not the god of reason or science. The god of wild places. Of everything that lies just beyond the edge of what we know.That choice wasn't accidental.Apollo took us there an ...  Show more

Computer algorithms now shape our world in profound and mostly invisible ways. They predict if we’ll be valuable customers and whether we’re likely to repay a loan. They filter what we see on social media, sort through resumes, and evaluate job performance. They inform prison ...

Artificial intelligence is letting us make predictive algorithms that translate languages and spot diseases as well or better than humans. But these systems are also being used to make decisions about hiring and criminal sentencing. Do computers trained on vast datasets of human ...  Show more

Is social engineering real and has it been used for decades to manipulate society? Is AI currently manipulating massive numbers of people world-wide? Is there an active population reduction plan in progress world-wide? Is sickness, a sense of unwellness and death at an all-time h ...  Show more

AI algorithms make important decisions about you all the time -- like how much you should pay for car insurance or whether or not you get that job interview. But what happens when these machines are built with human biases coded into their systems? Technologist Kriti Sharma explo ...  Show more