By Nicholas West The rapid proliferation of police drones and robots shouldn’t come as a surprise for longtime readers, but legislators are now reaching for…
By Nicholas West Longtime readers might remember when we first began discussing and warning about insect-sized drones and drone swarms more than a decade ago….
By Nicholas West Just yesterday I highlighed new concerns about ChatGPT artificial intelligence being merged into Google Earth satellite imagery for real-time global surveillance. This…
By Nicholas West ChatGPT has been taking over the news feed with its revolutionary and frightening ability to bring text production, video, audio and much…
By Nicholas West Earlier resistance to AI-driven robocops on the streets of New York appears to have lessened in the wake of rising crime and…
By Nicholas West The creator of Black Mirror – the dystopian sci-fi series – has famously said that he chose to stop making episodes because…
By Nicholas West It’s a difficult time to be an entrepreneur with a physical location that can be held hostage by the ever-changing COVID restrictions…
By Nicholas West As the global drone arms race continues to expand, so do the counter measures. As I’ve covered over the last decade, the…
By Nicholas West The move toward using robots in law enforcement, private security, and even to scare away the homeless, has been a decade-long trend…
By Nicholas West In April 2016 I reported that DARPA was hard at work on a plan to introduce 132-foot “Sea Hunter” drone warships to…
By Nicholas West Similar to its civilian counterpart, The Internet of Things, the military has been trying to increase the integration between physical objects, data…
By Nicholas West Here comes Skynet. Earlier this year in May it was reported by The Intercept that the EU had been working with member…
By Nicholas West Most people have heard of DARPA — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — that is informally known as the mad science…
By Nicholas West Renewed attention over artificial intelligence for use in warfare (“killer robots”) is being brought to the forefront with the recent Convention on…