(Natural News) At its annual investor meeting in Tampa, retail giant Walmart announced that over the next three years, it plans to convert 65 percent of its stores to a model of “automation.” In addition to laying off about 2,000 factory workers in the shorter term, the $388 billion multi-national corporation is eager to trim […]

(Natural News) In recent interviews on Swedish media, the European Commissioner in charge of the Chat Control Bill, Ylva Johansson, has shown that she does not understand the bill, the consequences it will have, and technology in general. (Article by Ken Macon republished from ReclaimTheNet.org) In interviews, she has repeatedly claimed that it is possible to scan […]

(Natural News) A self-described “futurist” and former engineer at tech giant Google has predicted that humans will achieve immortality by the year 2030. Ray Kurzweil, author of the book “The Singularity Is Near,” made this prediction. He also predicted that in 2029 – a year before this target date of human immortality – artificial intelligence (AI) […]

(Natural News) A high-profile artificial intelligence (AI) researcher is warning that unless all advanced AI systems and associated programs are immediately shut down, humanity will eventually become extinct at the hands of the life-destroying robots they are unleashing. Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), wrote an op-ed for TIME magazine this […]

(Natural News) The Future of Life Institute is circulating a petition that calls for an immediate end to all major artificial intelligence (AI) projects, citing their existential threat to human life. Signed by Elon Musk and numerous other bigwigs in the tech industry, the petition cites “extensive research” showing that “AI systems with human-competitive intelligence […]

(Natural News) Russia and China spent years working on and developing missiles that could travel at hypersonic speeds, making them all but impossible to shoot down using existing missile defense systems, all while the U.S. spent decades focused on low-intensity guerilla warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan. That inattentiveness to the growing threat of hypersonic missiles […]

(Natural News) Digital media company BuzzFeed has quietly published over 40 whole articles generated by artificial intelligence. The company announced earlier this year that it would start publishing “AI-assisted content,” according to CEO Jonah Peretti, who promised that the tech would be held to a high standard. (Related: AI chatbot GPT-4 TRICKED a person into solving […]

(Natural News) A report from investment bank Goldman Sachs warned that the proliferation of artificial intelligence technology could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs around the world. Specifically, Goldman Sachs warned about generative AI, which can create content indistinguishable from human work. The expansion of generative AI systems is poised to significantly disrupt […]

(Natural News) The movement to grant nonhuman personhood has extended from corporations to artificial intelligence, but the debate surrounding the latter is more complex than the former, according to a recently published analysis. Philosophy expert Eric Schwitzgebel and “nonhuman” intelligence researcher Henry Shevlin wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, arguing that while AI […]

(Natural News) One of the first big banks to embrace the notion of a cashless society, JPMorgan Chase is piloting a new payment technology that allows customers to buy and sell with just their palm or face – no cards or cash necessary. Following the lead of communist China, which already has such technology in […]