Source: tv.globalresearch.ca, corbettreport.com
As the public finally becomes outraged over the NSA's illegal spying, members of government and the corporate media wage an information war to misdirect that anger to issues of less importance. To counteract this, a bold new citizen-led initiative to nullify the NSA is now gaining momentum around the United States. This is the GRTV Backgrounder on Global Research TV. -tv.globalresearch.ca
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Dr. Roman Yampolskiy on Offplanet Radio | A.I. & Cyber Privacy, April 11, 2012
Source: offplanetradio.com, Roman Yampolskiy, Bio Dr. Roman Yampolskiy
"So the totality of humanity, with all of its biologic messiness, wasn't wanted. And to this machine-god, forgiveness just did not compute. Only cold retribution for the sins of the past."
- Frakes, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
April 11, 2011–Roman Yampolskiy is Assistant Professor and Head of Cyber Security Lab at University of Louisville. In an article posted at Innovation News Daily, "Humanity Must 'Jail' Dangerous AI to Avoid Doom, Expert Says", Dr. Yampolskiy was quoted as warning: "..."If such software manages to self-improve to levels significantly beyond human-level intelligence, the type of damage it can do is truly beyond our ability to predict or fully comprehend,"
We catch up with him to talk about A.I. (artificial intelligence), cyberspace privacy and security, and why he believes that computers can outstrip human performance. As he tells us: "Very little is known about how to protect ourselves from such technologies." ~Randy Maugans
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Related: Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy | Skynet Rising: The A.I. Threat to Humanity's Existence, March 14, 2012
"So the totality of humanity, with all of its biologic messiness, wasn't wanted. And to this machine-god, forgiveness just did not compute. Only cold retribution for the sins of the past."
- Frakes, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
April 11, 2011–Roman Yampolskiy is Assistant Professor and Head of Cyber Security Lab at University of Louisville. In an article posted at Innovation News Daily, "Humanity Must 'Jail' Dangerous AI to Avoid Doom, Expert Says", Dr. Yampolskiy was quoted as warning: "..."If such software manages to self-improve to levels significantly beyond human-level intelligence, the type of damage it can do is truly beyond our ability to predict or fully comprehend,"We catch up with him to talk about A.I. (artificial intelligence), cyberspace privacy and security, and why he believes that computers can outstrip human performance. As he tells us: "Very little is known about how to protect ourselves from such technologies." ~Randy Maugans
download mp3
Related: Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy | Skynet Rising: The A.I. Threat to Humanity's Existence, March 14, 2012
Intelligence Squad US: Cyber War Debate
Dadmiral's contribution to a security policy discussion debate, back there in DC, on June 8th:
Debate: THE CYBER WAR THREAT HAS BEEN GROSSLY EXAGGERATED Speakers: For the motion: Marc Rotenberg, Bruce Schneier Against the motion: VADM (Ret) John M. (Mike) McConnell, Jonathan Zittrain
The sophistication of our mobile phone networks, of the GPS system that guides air traffic, even of the networked command-and-control that drives our power grids, may be without rival. But it also provides one great big and sprawling target to enemies determined to discover the choke points that can cripple us in a time of war.
At least that's the scenario as described in various, and increasingly alarmed media accounts, especially in the wake of incidents like the hacking of Google last year, by digital assailants often described (without clear confirmation) as being based in China. It's indeed alarming, to contemplate fighting the next war with both hands tied behind our backs because a canny enemy figured out how to shut us down electronically.
Alarming -- but possibly, also, alarmist? Can we really be that vulnerable? Is our digital undergirding really that exposed, especially given that the Internet itself -- the foundation of all this critical connectedness -- was itself initially developed as a military undertaking? Even if our enemies -- state enemies or terrorists -- manage to cause damage in one corner of American cyberspace, don't we have enough redundancy built in to protect us? As one technology writer has put it, this is one of those topics where the internet press likes to get worked up into a lot of "heavy breathing.
Debate: THE CYBER WAR THREAT HAS BEEN GROSSLY EXAGGERATED Speakers: For the motion: Marc Rotenberg, Bruce Schneier Against the motion: VADM (Ret) John M. (Mike) McConnell, Jonathan Zittrain
The sophistication of our mobile phone networks, of the GPS system that guides air traffic, even of the networked command-and-control that drives our power grids, may be without rival. But it also provides one great big and sprawling target to enemies determined to discover the choke points that can cripple us in a time of war.
At least that's the scenario as described in various, and increasingly alarmed media accounts, especially in the wake of incidents like the hacking of Google last year, by digital assailants often described (without clear confirmation) as being based in China. It's indeed alarming, to contemplate fighting the next war with both hands tied behind our backs because a canny enemy figured out how to shut us down electronically.
Alarming -- but possibly, also, alarmist? Can we really be that vulnerable? Is our digital undergirding really that exposed, especially given that the Internet itself -- the foundation of all this critical connectedness -- was itself initially developed as a military undertaking? Even if our enemies -- state enemies or terrorists -- manage to cause damage in one corner of American cyberspace, don't we have enough redundancy built in to protect us? As one technology writer has put it, this is one of those topics where the internet press likes to get worked up into a lot of "heavy breathing.
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