“The Moral Red Line” — Autonomous Drones and War Without Humans
Autonomous drones transfer the final targeting decision to machines. Ricardo Petrissans examines accountability and the moral limits of war without human intervention.
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“The Lie Factory” — Deepfakes and the collapse of verification
Deepfakes erode trust in information and threaten democratic debate. Ricardo Petrissans examines the limits of verification and the growing gap between regulation and rea…
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“Alignment: The Problem Nobody Knows How to Solve”
Anthropic’s head of Alignment Science admits there is no plan to align a superintelligence. A technical problem that has become a warning sign.
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“The UN Declares an Emergency” — Existential risk reaches Geneva
Volker Türk brings the warning about AI’s existential risk to the Human Rights Council. The challenge is to govern a technology that advances faster than international pr…
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Palantir Technologies: A Future at the Crossroads
In the vast universe of technology, few companies have captured public imagination and scrutiny the way Palantir Technologies has. Since its founding in 2003, the company…
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Real-Time War: Palantir, Algorithms, and the Reinvention of the Battlefield
A narrative chronicle about software that turns artillery flashes into lines of code. Night has closed over Donetsk oblast. In a makeshift command post, a Ukrainian offic…
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Between Trenches and Offices: Palantir in the Service of the State
A narrative chronicle of missions, victories and public dilemmas. Aboard a C-130 Hercules flying over Helmand Province, an infantry captain hurriedly leafs through some p…
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Palantir and the Technology That Transformed National Security
As Palantir Technologies established itself as a key player in the intelligence sphere, its Gotham platform became an indispensable tool for national security agencies an…
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“We need to reclaim our digital sovereignty”: a letter by intellectuals denounces tech companies’ pressure on Brazil
Piketty, Varoufakis, and Acemoglu warn that the contest between the social network X and Brasilia is yet another chapter in the “alarming” global effort by large companie…
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Ray Kurzweil Collection. (2) Raymond Kurzweil: A Visionary of the Future
Raymond Kurzweil is a name that resonates strongly in the fields of technology, artificial intelligence, and futurism. Born in Queens, New York, on February 12, 1948, thi…
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The history of the internet and the many old websites that are going to disappear
Historians referred to the Dark Age as the period of the first centuries of Medieval Europe, heavily marked by the scarcity of sources that allow the reconstruction of th…
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Amazon, Tesla, and Meta among the leading companies in the world undermining democracy, according to a report
Companies like ExxonMobil and Blackstone are also major funders of the climate crisis, according to a new union report. Some of the world’s largest companies have been ac…
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