I read the whole frigging thing and I loved it. I’m agender and I really appreciate the way this was written. I actually was crying a little by the end.
Everyone should know that this happened, it is kind of a big deal.
“Time and again, people struggling not for some token reform but for complete liberation – the reclamation of control over our own lives and the power to negotiate our own relationships with the people and the world around us – will find that nonviolence does not work, that we face a self-perpetuating power structure that is immune to appeals to conscience and strong enough to plow over the disobedient and uncooperative.”
"Any theory about revolution that doesn’t also grapple with how we have endured so much pain, that doesn’t trace it and seek to extract it from all of the deep, dark places that it reaches into…any theory of revolution that is unable to talk about collective ways of recovering from anguish, that fails in the first place to look at and confront all of the ways in which we have been hurt, badly, by systems of exploitation and degradation — is a mere exercise in intellectual abstraction."
Official US
defence and NATO documents confirm that autonomous weapon systems will
kill targets, including civilians, based on tweets, blogs and Instagram
Imagine one of these giant robot dog things being weaponized and chasing
you through the jungle because you turned up on a Pentagon kill list
after posting angry stuff on social media
The Pentagon is building a ‘self-aware’ killer robot army fueled by social media.Official
US defence and NATO documents confirm that autonomous weapon systems
will kill targets, including civilians, based on tweets, blogs and
Instagram
by Nafeez Ahmed
This exclusive is published by INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a crowd-funded investigative journalism project for the global commons
An unclassified 2016 Department of Defense (DoD) document, the Human Systems Roadmap Review,
reveals that the US military plans to create artificially intelligent
(AI) autonomous weapon systems, which will use predictive social media
analytics to make decisions on lethal force with minimal human
involvement.
Despite
official insistence that humans will retain a “meaningful” degree of
control over autonomous weapon systems, this and other Pentagon
documents dated from 2015 to 2016 confirm that US military planners are
already developing technologies designed to enable swarms of
“self-aware” interconnected robots to design and execute kill operations
against robot-selected targets.
More
alarmingly, the documents show that the DoD believes that within just
fifteen years, it will be feasible for mission planning, target
selection and the deployment of lethal force to be delegated entirely to
autonomous weapon systems in air, land and sea. The Pentagon expects AI
threat assessments for these autonomous operations to be derived from
massive data sets including blogs, websites, and multimedia posts on
social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
The
raft of Pentagon documentation flatly contradicts Deputy Defense
Secretary Robert Work’s denial that the DoD is planning to develop
killer robots.
In a widely reported March conversation with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, Work said that this may change as rival powers work to create such technologies:
“We
might be going up against a competitor that is more willing to delegate
authority to machines than we are, and as that competition unfolds we
will have to make decisions on how we best can compete.”
But,
he insisted, “We will not delegate lethal authority to a machine to
make a decision,” except for “cyber or electronic warfare.”
11th May 2017
Reblogged From fullpraxisnow
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