Tech
New Drone Rules Will Pave the Way for Starbucks and Amazon Deliveries
“We are going to unleash American drone dominance,” said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. New Drone Rules Reuters reports US Proposes New Drone Rules May Lead to Starbucks, Amazon Deliveries. The U.S. Transportation Department is proposing new rules to speed deployment of drones beyond the visual line of sight of operators, a […]
To Share Weights from Neural Network Training Is Dangerous
Some organizations and researchers are sharing neural network weights, particularly through the open-weight model movement. These include Meta’s Llama series, Mistral’s models, and DeepSeek’s open-weight releases, which claim to democratize access to powerful AI. But doing so raises not only security concerns, but potentially an existential threat. For background, I have written […]
They Dialled Us Down – Richard Willett
Today is August 14th 2025 and we have just finished recording the latest episode of ‘The Round Table’ at the Ickonic studios in Derbyshire. It was an absolutely fascinating discussion across a wide range of topics between myself, Christianne Van Wijk, Jaymie, Gareth and David Icke. In the second part […]
If It Walks Like a Duck: Is The AI Mania a Psych-Ops?
Let’s summarize our thought experiment: the AI Mania scores 100% on all eight metrics of a Psych-Ops. Before you scream, “Oh no, not again–could somebody please take off his tin-foil hat?”, hear me out. Let’s do a thought experiment exploring this question: Is The AI Mania a Psych-Ops? If it walks […]
Alarming New Study Finds Smartphones Ruining Our Brains at Unprecedented Speed
Any parent with a kid addicted to TikTok or Instagram is familiar with the concern that it’s ruining their brain. I’m of a certain age where I heard that refrain regularly from my Dad as I settled in each summer afternoon to watch reruns of Gilligan’s Island, The Brady Bunch, and The Partridge […]
EU Breaks Its Own Law, Forcing Use of Google for Age Verification
The EU just took a major step forward in their Digital ID program by releasing an age verification app and framework. Its being tested in 5 EU countries. The EU just took a major step forward in their Digital ID program by releasing an age verification app and framework. Its […]
From Project 2025 to the PayPal Presidency: School Choice Fin-Tech for a Blockchain Social Credit Economy
The ambitions of the Koch-backed network behind Project 2025 and the the PayPal Mafia behind President Trump are set to converge in a public-private fin-tech industry that distributes school choice subsidies using digital wallets and stablecoins based on AI social credit analytics. In “TrumpED 2025: School Choice Corporatization, Social Impact Finance, […]
We Don’t Need a New Framework for AI Ethics
We Already Have the Doctrine of Fully Informed Consent In June 2025, the newly mitred Pope Leo announced his support for the Rome Call for AI Ethics, issued by Vatican in 2020. The call received support in 2023 from representatives of Islam and Judaism. In July 2024 representatives from 20 global regions also […]
The Threats of AI Come from the State
There have been many comments in the last year about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence, from such AI luminaries as Elon Musk, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Gary Marcus and others. But they might not be the right people to listen to in this regard, because the threats of AI are fundamentally political. […]
DARPA’s Theory of Mind Warfare
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has an initiative called the Theory of Mind program. This effort is designed to give national security decision-makers the ability to model, simulate, and ultimately anticipate the intentions and behaviors of adversaries using a combination of advanced algorithms and human expertise. At its […]
