John R. Houk, Blog Editor
April 17, 2024
Whenever I look into the rise of a potential Artificial Intelligence
(AI) tyranny as either a controlling tool of ONE-World Globalists or
AI-sentience, I typically run into naysayers who claim it ain’t possible.
I’ve witnessed too many dark-side leaps and bounds to give
credence to AI-Tyranny naysayers. Below are a series of posts I ran into that
only serves my belief to WATCH OUT FOR AN AI TYRANNY & NSA SPYING!
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When it comes to AI, be afraid, be very afraid
Our Op-Ed in the NY Post: AI is beginning to look like HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” a computer that overtakes its human masters’ ability to control it and turns against humanity.
Tech Giants Push Broken Programs - Zuckerberg Photo (LI Photo)
Posted by William A. Jacobson
April 15, 2024 at 08:30pm
Artificial Intelligence and the use of algorithms in unseen
ways is a hot media topic now, but we’ve been on the case for a long time,
including almost a year ago how ‘Diversity
in Recruiting’ at LinkedIn Implements Feature Allowing Recruiters to Find
People by Their Demographics.
You may remember our online event in July 2023,
regarding Discrimination
By Algorithm – the “ultimate showdown between equity and equality is going to
take place at a technological level” IVIDEO at link], where we
explored how bias was built in to achieve de facto racial and
other quotas.
This “discrimination by algorithm” problem was the subject
of an Op-Ed by Kemberlee and me in The NY Post last month, Google’s
Gemini AI Is Just The Tip Of The ‘Discrimination By Algorithm’ Bias Problem:
Everyone is laughing at
the Google Gemini AI rollout. But it’s no joke.
The problem is more nefarious
than historically inaccurate generated images.
The manipulation of AI is just
one aspect of broader “discrimination by algorithm” being built into corporate
America, and it could cost you job opportunities and more.
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NY-Post-Kansas-AI-Censorship (LI Screengrab)
A few days ago we had another Op-ed at the NY Post relating
to AI, The
plight of a Kansas newspaper shows the new face of censorship via AI:
As more tech behemoths look to
Artificial Intelligence to automate tasks, it becomes more apparent that AI is
not ready for prime time and poses a threat to human autonomy.
No one can forget the ridiculous fiasco in which Google’s prized AI
bot, Gemini, kept spitting out images of black Vikings, female Popes, and
changing the ethnicity of every founding father to a person of color.
Now, the Kansas Reflector, a
non-profit news operation, is fighting a losing war with Facebook’s AI bot.
Facebook flagged an article
about climate change as a security threat, and then blocked the domains of any
publication that tried to share or repost the article.
Users who attempted to post the
article received auto-generated messages explaining that the content posed a
security risk, without further explanation.
Meta, the parent company of
Facebook, Instagram, and Threads is unrepentant, and says it has no idea why
the Kansas Reflector’s innocuous post was blacklisted by its AI bot, but
attributed the problem to likely “machine learning error.”
Of course there is zero
accountability for these errors that result in immeasurable damage to brands
and their reputations.
The promise of AI, we hear over
and over again, is that it’s a tool to help humans do better, automating tasks
to free up worker time for other things. But instead, AI looks far more like
HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” a computer that overtakes its human
masters’ ability to control it and turns against humanity.
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At the Equal Protection Project
(Equalprotect.org),
we’ve been screaming about the dangers of AI for over a
year, and how bias in the name of anti-bias is being programmed into systems.
Behind the scenes and out of sight, AI and social media algorithms can be used
to determine what you are allowed to post, what you will be able to read, and
ultimately what you will think.
Despite the promises of
simplifying workflows and managing tasks, there’s far too much evidence of AI
destruction to be ignored.
When it comes to AI, be afraid,
be very afraid.
Click the link above for the rest of the Op-ed.
They gave us almost a full page spread for it in the print
newspaper, which was nice.
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We are going to keep on the AI trail.
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NSA “Just Days Away From Taking Over The Internet” Warns
Ed Snowden
NSA Internet Control & Surveillance (Activist Post Photo)
Authored by Tom Mitchelhill
via CoinTelegraph.com
APRIL 16, 2024
The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is only
days away from “taking over the internet” with a massive expansion of its
surveillance powers, according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
In an April 16 post to X, Snowden drew attention to a thread
originally posted by Elizabeth Goitein — the co-director of the Liberty and
National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice — that warned of a
new bill that could see the U.S. government surveillance powers amplified to
new levels.
The NSA is just 𝗗𝗔𝗬𝗦 from taking over the internet, and it's not on the front page of any newspaper--because no one has noticed. https://t.co/qp5BimwOjI
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 15, 2024
The bill in question reforms and extends a part of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) known as Section 702.
Currently, the NSA can force internet service providers
such as Google and Verizon to hand over sensitive data concerning NSA targets.
However, Goitein claims that through an “innocuous change”
to the definition of “electronic communications surveillance provider” in the
FISA 702 bill, the U.S. government could go far beyond its current scope and
force nearly every company and individual that provides any internet-related
service to assist with NSA surveillance.
“That sweeps in an enormous
range of U.S. businesses that provide wifi to their customers and therefore
have access to equipment on which communications transit. Barber shops,
laundromats, fitness centers, hardware stores, dentist’s offices.”
Additionally, the people forced to hand over data would be
unable to discuss the information provided due to hefty gag order penalties and
conditions outlined in the bill, added Goitein.
If the bill becomes law, any company or individual that provides ANY service whatsoever may be forced to assist in NSA surveillance, as long as they have access to equipment on which communications are transmitted or stored—such as routers, servers, cell towers, etc. 6/25
— Elizabeth Goitein (@LizaGoitein) April 15, 2024
The bill initially received heavy pushback from privacy-conscious Republicans but passed through the U.S. House of Representatives on April 13.
Part of the pushback saw the bills’ proposed spying
powers time-frame cut from five years to two years, as well as some minor
amendments to the service providers included under the surveillance measures.
However, according to Goitein, the amendment did very little
to reduce the scope of surveillance granted to the NSA.
In her view, the amendment could even see service providers
such as cleaners, plumbers and IT service providers that have access to laptops
and routers inside people’s homes be forced to provide information and serve as
“surrogate spies,” claimed Goitein.
The bill has seen strong pushback from both sides of the
political aisle, with several government representatives claiming the bill
violates citizen’s constitutional rights.
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden described the
bill as “terrifying” and said he would do everything in his power to prevent it
from being passed through the Senate.
“This bill represents one of
the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance
authority in history.”
Republican Congressperson Anna Paulina Luna, who voted
against the bill in the House of Representatives, said Section 702 was an
“irresponsible extension” of the NSA’s powers. Luna added that if government
agencies wanted access to data, they must be forced to apply for a warrant.
The bill is slated for a vote on April 19 in the U.S.
Senate.
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FISA Exchanges Real Liberty for Phantom Security
By Ron Paul, MD - The Ron Paul Institute
April 16, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed liberty and the
Constitution by making a full-court press to get a “clean” reauthorization of
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act through the
House.
Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign
citizens. When the FISA Act was passed, surveillance state boosters promised
that 702 warrantless surveillances would never be used against American
citizens. However, intelligence agencies have used a loophole in 702, allowing
them to subject to warrantless surveillance any American who communicated with
a non-US citizen who was a 702 target. Intelligence agencies could then also
conduct warrantless surveillance on any Americans who communicated with the new
American target. This Section 702 loophole has been used so often to subject
Americans to warrantless wiretapping that it has been referred to as the
surveillance state’s crown jewel.
A bipartisan coalition of Republican and Democratic House
members worked to add a warrant requirement to the FISA bill. Speaker Johnson
agreed to allow a vote on the House floor on an amendment requiring federal
officials to get a warrant before subjecting any American to surveillance.
However, he publicly opposed the amendment, as did President Biden. Prominent
deep state operatives, such as former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike
Pompeo, also lobbied against the amendment.
The case against adding a warrant requirement to FISA
consisted of hysterical claims that forcing the surveillance state to obey the
Fourth Amendment would make Americans vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
Particularity, the claim was made that forcing national security operatives to
get a warrant before spying on US citizens would cripple the ability to respond
to a “ticking time bomb” situation.
Those claims were debunked by the heroic Edward Snowden, who
made the American people aware of the extent of warrantless surveillance.
Snowden, who worked as a government contractor for the National Security Agency
(NSA), posted in a message on X (formally known as Twitter) that the warrant
amendment would not stop federal agencies from acting without a warrant in a
“ticking time bomb” situation.
A vote was held Friday afternoon on the amendment requiring
a warrant before Section 702 powers would be used to spy on American citizens.
Despite the fearmongering by Mike Pompeo and others, as well as the opposition
of both President Biden and Speaker Johnson, the amendment failed to pass by
only one vote. The amendment would have passed had Speaker Johnson not cast a
rare floor vote (speakers usually do not vote on legislation) against the
amendment.
When the PATRIOT Act was rushed to the House floor in the
fall of 2001 — weeks after 9-11 — and voted upon before members had a chance to
read it, only three Republicans voted against it. One conservative
representative told me he voted for it even though he agreed with my opposition
to the bill. He told me, “I can’t go back home and tell my constituents I voted
agent the PATRIOIT Act!”
While the failure to pass the warrant amendment was
dispiriting, the fact that it failed by only one vote shows how much progress
we have made. It should thus inspire us to keep encouraging Congress to refuse
to take away real liberty in the name of promises of phantom security.
Dr. Ron Paul is a
former member of Congress and Distinguished Counselor to the Mises Institute.
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