Category: Science and Technology

The year in tech

December 28, 2023 • 6 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hi! Living in the Arctic has downsides — mainly the bitter cold — but it also has benefits, like these rainbow-colored clouds that recently appeared in the skies. In today’s big story, we’re looking at some of our […]

AI: The Transhumanist Temptation

by Karl Richter Arktos Journal Dec 22, 2023 Karl Richter discusses the burgeoning world of artificial intelligence, a realm just beginning to permeate our work and daily life, from sophisticated language programmes to the ominous foresight of transhumanism and the blending of human consciousness with machines. So-called artificial […]

The End of Industrial Society

The Industrial Revolution stopped before it was ever completed. The aftermath is not a clean and developed world, but lost knowledge and civilizational decline. Dec 21, 2023 Panikovsky/Soviet Buran spacecraft, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan This article by Samo Burja was originally published at Palladium Magazine on March 24, 2021. […]

Boston experimented with using generative AI for governing. It went surprisingly well

11-19-23 Boston experimented with using generative AI for governing. It went surprisingly well New AI tools offer the most hope ever for creating a broadly reformed, citizen-oriented governance. [Source images: Mari Ganesh Kumar/Unsplash, Google DeepMind/Unsplash] By Santiago Garces and Stephen Goldsmith5 minute Read The recent Biden White House […]

The first AI nation? A ship with 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs worth $500 million could become the first ever sovereign territory that relies entirely on artificial intelligence for its future

By Ross Kelly published November 05, 2023 The BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster would be a roaming AI powerhouse at sea (Image credit: Del Complex/BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster) A floating data center containing thousands of Nvidia GPUs has raised questions over whether the practice could result in the creation […]

AI: The Transhumanist Temptation

by Karl Richter Arktos Journal Dec 22, 2023 Karl Richter discusses the burgeoning world of artificial intelligence, a realm just beginning to permeate our work and daily life, from sophisticated language programmes to the ominous foresight of transhumanism and the blending of human consciousness with machines. So-called artificial […]

“A Powerful Day to You, Sir!”

Sponsored by Domini Impact Investments In our Holiday Issue, Mark O’Connell reviews Werner Herzog’s autobiography, a deadpan self-portrait by a true eccentric who seems to wake up each morning “in determined pursuit of experience.” As O’Connell writes, there is something “resolute and methodical about the wildness of Herzog’s life,” […]

Defining the next 30 years

Defining the next 30 years The future can look pretty bleak. Climate catastrophes, new diseases, crumbling infrastructure, wealth inequality, cyber risks, geopolitical conflicts, and threats to democracy around the globe are just some of the things now shaking people’s confidence in a better tomorrow. But human ingenuity is […]

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth!

“Dinosaurs are coming back, as it turns out; not alive, but surfacing into the ecological concerns of our moment,” writes Rebecca Giggs in our Holiday Issue. “To think more deeply about what it might mean to learn about dinosaurs in this time of environmental crisis, I sat down with my […]

Jason Reza Jorjani – Interregnum #73

Arktos Journal Dec 3, 2023 Jason Jorjani discusses his new book Psychotron, which outlines the psychic arena in which techno-totalitarianism and techno-idealism now stand opposed across battle lines that defy the space-time continuum. Giving a philosophy-with-the-hammer analysis of the regressive Great Reset, as currently enforced by the anti-human […]

How Social Engineering Drives Technology

Technology doesn’t disrupt society. Society adopts technology through a process of social re-engineering. This can’t happen without functional institutions. Nov 23, 2023 SpaceX/Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, United States This article by Samo Burja was originally published at Palladium Magazine on May 28, 2020. Common wisdom holds that […]

When the Brain Becomes Data

Sponsored by Yale University Press “It is well established that digital privacy exists only at the discretion of the companies that mediate our online engagement,” writes Sue Halpern in our 60th Anniversary Issue. “But what happens when those companies, an employer, school administrators, or the government have access to […]

Round-Table #91: Impact of A.I. on Society

I will be joined by Keith Preston, Florian Ulrich and Aleksey Bashtavenko to discuss the impact of recent A.I. developments on society. My contact info: Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoFPodcast Telegram: t.me/PraiseOfFolly_1511 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PraiseOfFoll… BuyMeACoffe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PraiseOf… Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/PraiseO… Substack: https://substack.com/profile/40985862… Guest Contact Info: Keith Preston: https://attackthesystem.com/ Aleksey: aleksey.bashtavenko@gmail.com […]

The Tech-Renegade Manifesto

You’re on notice, Marc Andreessen Oct 25 READ IN APP Lies We are being lied to. We are told that it’s time to build, but who are we building for? Certainly not ourselves, in this economy! Venture capitalists steal our ideas, cut off our funding, increase monotony, obscure […]

Billionaire VC Marc Andreessen welcomes the symbiotic AI future: ‘It’s going to be a much better way to live’

BYPaige Hagy September 7, 2023 at 1:50 PM EDT Marc Andreessen anticipates that everyone, starting with children, will have a constant AI companion and helper. selimaksan—Getty Images The 2013 film Her, a science-fiction romance starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson, isn’t far off from what billionaire Marc Andreessen […]

Companies use AI to monitor workers—45% of employees say it has a negative effect on their mental health

Aditi Shrikant@Aditi_Shrikant CNBC Courtneyk | E+ | Getty Images As companies implement return-to-office plans, employers are increasingly interested in utilizing artificial intelligence, not to replace workers, but to watch them. Between March 2020 and June 2023, demand for employee surveillance software grew 54%, according to research from Top10VPN, […]

How is AI changing the global economy?

How is AI changing the global economy? Daron Acemoglu on the hype and reality of a potentially transformative technology. Touann Gatouillat Vergos For years now, Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, has been saying that artificial intelligence will have a greater effect on humanity than the internet, electricity, or even […]

Classical Transhumanism

The promises and perils of the posthuman world revealed through myth Rachel Haywire Sep 28, 2023 This is a guest post by Caleb Ontiveros at The Classical Futurist, a blog that has been commanding my focus lately. They talk about everything from Greek and Roman Mythology to the […]