Fear Skynet, not Terminator

A senior Pentagon official was quoted yesterday saying “We’re going to invest in autonomous killer robots.” That is, perhaps, an alarming sentence to hear. The real threat is not the robots, however, but the autonomy. Quote in full: This administration cares about weapon systems and business systems and not ‘technologies.’ We’re not going to be … Read more

Response to Hanania on AI Taking Our Jobs

Richard Hanania wrote an excellent post today covering the fear that AI will take human jobs. I found it intriguing enough that it prompted me to write up my own thoughts. This post, however…is not about jobs. In a way, neither was Hanania’s. I like his section headings, though, so I’m just going to keep … Read more