Technology & Surveillance
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AI Is Learning To Conquer Video Games – But The Real Goal Is Much Bigger
What if the next major breakthrough in artificial intelligence isn’t happening in a laboratory, a military command center, or a corporate boardroom, but inside a video game? That may sound ridiculous, especially to older Americans who remember when video games meant moving a little white…
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Chipotle’s Ouija Board Ad Sparks Backlash – But The Real Danger Goes Much Deeper
A fast-food chain wants to bring back its margaritas. So naturally, it turns to a Ouija board and tells customers that the spirits have spoken. That is the premise behind Chipotle’s Halloween marketing campaign, which has drawn criticism from Christians who see something far more…
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The AI Catastrophe They Fear – And The Global Controls That Could Follow
Imagine waking up one morning to discover your bank account is inaccessible. Credit cards no longer work. Internet service has collapsed across entire regions. Power grids are failing, water systems are disrupted, and government officials are scrambling to explain what happened. Now imagine discovering that…
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The LGBT Identity Boom Is Reversing – What Changed?
For years, Americans were told that the dramatic rise in LGBT identification among young people represented an unstoppable cultural transformation. Each new generation would be more sexually fluid, more willing to reject traditional labels, and more likely to embrace identities that previous generations had rarely…
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Your Money Is Going Digital – And Soon It May Come With Conditions
Something significant is happening to money in Canada, but Americans shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking this is merely a Canadian experiment. Six of Canada’s largest banks — BMO, CIBC, National Bank, RBC, Scotiabank and TD — have announced that they are jointly exploring a…
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Russia’s Plague Mystery: What Are The World’s Labs Creating?
Something strange happened at a Russian laboratory that studies some of the most dangerous pathogens on Earth. Twenty-eight-year-old Darya Shipilova, an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia, became seriously ill and died October 2 from what Russian authorities describe as pneumonia of…
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America Is Building An Autonomous Military. Are The Guardrails Keeping Up?
On September 30 at Quantico, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced something that deserves far more attention than another Pentagon reorganization. Among six initiatives unveiled in his “State of the Force” address, Hegseth announced plans for a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, or AUTOWARCOM, intended to…
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AI Is Learning To Make Moral Choices – But Whose Morality Will It Follow?
For most of the computer age, machines operated according to a simple relationship: humans gave instructions, and machines carried them out. Artificial intelligence is beginning to complicate that relationship. The emerging generation of AI agents is increasingly being designed not merely to follow commands, but…
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A Generation Drowning In Content Is Searching For Something More
They are the most connected generation in human history. They have instant access to entertainment, information, social media, artificial intelligence, streaming video, podcasts and virtually every worldview imaginable. An answer to almost any factual question is only seconds away. And yet, beneath the endless scrolling,…
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67 Minutes To Blame The Jews: The Flydubai Incident And The Online Mob
I went looking through social media after the flydubai incident with a fairly simple question: what really happened? It didn’t take long before I discovered something almost as disturbing as the conspiracy theories themselves. I looked at one post blaming Israel. Then another. Before long,…
