Artificial intelligence (AI) is creeping into our daily lives now, especially the lives of those who spend significant time online. But what is it? Every new technology carries advantages, disadvantages, and risks. What makes AI any different? We hear dark mutterings...
Artificial Intelligence
Radiation + Human Rights
Technology and digitization are among the major topics of the 21st century. The shift to artificial intelligence, wireless infrastructure and biometrics affects all of humankind — from the poorest to the richest, youngest to the oldest — no matter where a person lives...
Effects of Unregulated Digitalization on Health and Democracy – A Call for Using Technology with Discernment
We are contemporary witnesses to the accelerated implementation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution with central stakeholders aiming at the digital transformation of all areas of life and production. The digital transformation is an ideology and a hype. It is also a vehicle for total surveillance and control if not restricted and regulated pro-perly. It is essential to pause and to analyze the Fourth Industrial Revolution in a rational way.
5G AND THE MILITARY — Marriage Made in Hell
5G infrastructure has already been paid for by the public through the commercial use of cellphones, smart cities and satellite internet such as Starlink. So through dual use technology, the military gets bargain prices for much of its infrastructure while the public (unknowingly) subsidizes war.
Understanding Adverse Health Effects of Artificial EMFs is Common Sense
As we are all rapidly being forced into the new generation of electronic gadgets and wireless services, sometimes referred to as the “Internet of Things” and primarily based on the 5th generation (5G) of wireless communication, to be followed soon by 6G and 7G, more and more people are asking themselves if the ever-increasing levels of artificial electromagnetic fields (EMFs), especially of the pulsed type, really are safe for living organisms.
Coded Bias Documentary
CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
Universal Declaration of Data Rights as Human Rights
CODED BIAS is a documentary film that aims to shine a light on bias encoded in the algorithms that impact us all, and the threat these automated systems pose to civil and human rights. We invite you to sign in support of our Universal Declaration of Data Rights as Human Rights. Please review the text below, and if you stand in solidarity, add your name to the signature list.
The Social Dilemma
The Social Dilemma documentary features the voices of technologists, researchers and activists working to align technology with the interests of humanity.
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