GENEVA: The UN human rights chief is calling for a moratorium on the use of artificial intelligence technology that poses a serious risk to human rights, including face-scanning systems that track people in public spaces.
Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, also said Wednesday that countries should expressly ban AI applications which don’t comply with international human rights law.
Applications that should be prohibited include government “social scoring” systems that judge people based on their behavior and certain AI-based tools that categorize people into clusters such as by ethnicity or gender.
AI-based technologies can be a force for good but they can also “have negative, even catastrophic, effects if they are used without sufficient regard to how they affect people’s human rights,” Bachelet said in a statement.
Her comments came along with a new UN report that examines how countries and businesses have rushed into applying AI systems that affect people’s lives and livelihoods without setting up proper safeguards to prevent discrimination and other harms.
“This is not about not having AI,” Peggy Hicks, the rights office’s director of thematic engagement, told journalists as she presented the report in Geneva. “It’s about recognizing that if AI is going to be used in these human rights — very critical — function areas, that it’s got to be done the right way. And we simply haven’t yet put in place a framework that ensures that happens.”
Bachelet didn’t call for an outright ban of facial recognition technology, but said governments should halt the scanning of people’s features in real time until they can show the technology is accurate, won’t discriminate and meets certain privacy and data protection standards.
While countries weren’t mentioned by name in the report, China has been among the countries that have rolled out facial recognition technology — particularly for surveillance in the…
In the near future, in the name of fighting Terrorism, America could find herself working as an ally with the Taliban on some operations that target the type of Islamo-Fascist groups that this particular Islamo-Fascist group might not like. This isn’t a speculation, this is something offered as a possibility by none other than General Milley himself, the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
…. Should the United States cooperate with the Taliban in order to counter the Islamic State in Afghanistan? When asked about prospects for that during a Sept. 1 press conference, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, responded, “It’s possible.” Given the 20-year U.S. war against the Taliban, Milley’s remarks made news and came as a shock to some observers.
In fact, the United States has already worked with the Taliban on several occasions in pursuit of common interests, and Milley’s comment makes clear U.S. officials are seriously thinking through the possibility of doing so again. A review of the pros and cons of future U.S.-Taliban cooperation against the Islamic State in Afghanistan shows that while there may be operational advantages for both sides,
U.S. Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, enemy of the Constitution and traitor to the Bill of Rights, 20th Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, poses for a command portrait in the Army portrait studio at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., Sept. 26, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Monica King)
The top brass of the Pentagon, an institution polluted with corruption and led by vainglorious autonamatons, are rallying around General Milley to justify his clearly irrational behavior. Milley decided that somehow President Trump was going to attack China and betrayed his country by warning the Chinese and “reassuring” them that, whatever Trump did, he and the military were the one who are really in charge.
America’s slavish devotion to its military is shown in a wasteful budget that sees our military overpaying for everything, without any real accountability, a top-down and overly logistical structure that has more non-combatants than warfighters, and a wokatariate agenda that displaces real training for gross social experiments. In short, our military is bloated by inflated prices for equipment and supplies, it is top-heavy and the logistical tail is now wagging the dog, and, finally, its training is dominated by alt-gendered rainbow fascism as opossed to warfighting.
It is upon this heap that the likes of General Milley practice their trade in craft, a craft more devoted to radical ideas about somehow reshaping human nature itself based on fantastical and sci-fi-like theories than protecting and defending the Constitution from all enemies. But beyond the seemingly leftwing nature of the military brass, whose ideology appears as anti-American as any foreign foe we have faced, there beats the rather bipartisan heart of archaic caesarism. The lust for notoriety and ego satisfaction drives these men and women of highest rank to extremes once reserved for immature college activists whose protests were usually aimed at phony crises and bogeyman that were never real.
In short, in scoundrels like Milley and all his fellow top-brass who are defending them, protection is not to the people of this country but, rather, to the rather authoritarian structures they are busy building. Today it almost seems a fifth column have seized the military and are using the alt-gendered rainbow fascism to corrupt the troops and destroy their morale and warfighting capabilities.
But looking on the surface ans blaiming the LGBT community of our fellow Americans for what is happening is missing the point and targeting the wrong people as villains. The present use of this rainbow fascism, where dissent is treason in the eyes of the brass, is but a means to an end, which is not to purge the ranks of anyone who isn’t totally on board with the rainbow, but to remove anyone who takes the enlistment oath seriously. The objective is to build a military who will obey the new class of Caesar wannabes without question, having been programmed to clap like seals at every absurdity crammed down their throat through “diversity training.”
We can predict with certainty that when the rainbow alt-gendered fascism has done its work and trained the troops to accept absurdity without question, the brass and their Caesar will discard these experimental fantasies about changing human sexuality and gender and promptly turn on the very people whose “rights” they once desperately pleaded were so fragile that anyone who deigned to cling to historic orthodoxy and disagree had to be canceled.
One cannot agree with or submit to rainbow fascism and diktat about one’s own thoughts and conscience and seriously adhere to the enlistment oath because all this is a grotesque affront to the Bill of Rights, not to mention America’s historic way of life and heritage. The era of a non-political military who honor the Bill of Rights is being destroyed by the military brass, but not because they in fact desire the rainbow vision they are cramming down the throats of our troops: they are simply using this to destroy the tie between military service and defending the Constitution.
After they succeed, and history warns us that they will succeed, all pretense of being serious about the rights of people to choose who they love and the such will be unnecessary. Some cause or reason will become the new pretext to end the charade, having succeeded in conditioning the troops to defend the brass instead of the Constitution.
Those who fear this alt-gendered rainbow reality where heterosexuality itself may become a pariah in the culture need not fear, this is so absurdly untenable that any society that seriously tries this would face such a dissolution of the social fabric it would quickly collapse, and this is not the goal. The goal is to bring society NEAR collapse, to so break down the social fabric that when the new Caesar comes to “fix” this “decadence”, the vast majority who detest the cancel culture extremism will applaud them even as they turn on the former objects of affection, namely the actual LGBTQ who mostly had nothing to do with the wokatariate nonsense.
In a free and pluralistic society people who desire to experiment with or practice sexuality or gender outside the norms of historic orthodoxy are free, but they can no more impose acceptance or adoption of their ways than anyone else can. Such a society is dynamic and always experimenting, the goal is to seek the ideal without assuming the present achievement is the furthest we can go.
These rainbow warriors for the LGBTQ and etc, an alt-gendered, atomized, and over-sexualized culture, are a fraud. They don’t really care about the rainbow people, they just want to establish legions who will be loyal without question to the brass. And the brass are loyal only to themselves.
The brutal truth is that the American military brass are all Caesarists whose commitment to the Bill of Rights is non-existent.
The Japanese Ministry of Defense’s Joint Staff Office has released footage of what it says were interceptions over neutral waters of Chinese new long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles that were flying toward its border over the East China Sea. In a series of announcements in August, the Joint Staff of Japan’s Defense Ministry announced that its […]
After 20 years of blood, sweat and tears, from American soldiers and the Afghan people, especially the ones that worked with us to fight the Taliban, our American General of Joint Chiefs of Staff, our top Military person, has recently stated that he expects to have to coordinate with the Taliban to fight terrorism in Afghanistan.
That’s essentially what he said, folks, nevermind the bureaucratic speak, that’s what he said. America.
WASHINGTON: Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Wednesday that it’s “possible” that the US will have to coordinate with the Taliban on any future counterterrorism strikes in Afghanistan against Islamic State militants or others.
The Taliban, said Milley, is a “ruthless” group, and “whether or not they change remains to be seen.” He added, “In war you do what you must in order to reduce risk to mission and force, not what you necessarily want to do.”
Speaking two days after the final US troops left Afghanistan at the close of a turbulent and deadly evacuation of more than 124,000 American citizens, Afghans and others, Milley and defence secretary Lloyd Austin told Pentagon reporters that it’s hard to predict the future of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
“I would not make any leaps of logic to broader issues,” said Austin.
Both men commanded troops in Afghanistan during the 20-year war and their comments on Wednesday largely focused on tributes to…
In recent months, Washington has had a lot to say about China’s ever-expanding air, naval, and missile power. But when Pentagon officials address the topic, they generally speak less about that country’s current capabilities, which remain vastly inferior to those of the United States, than the world they foresee in the 2030s and 2040s, when Beijing is expected to have acquired far more sophisticated weaponry.
“China has invested heavily in new technologies, with a stated intent to complete the modernization of its forces by 2035 and to field a ‘world-class military’ by 2049,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testified in June. The United States, he assured the Senate Armed Services Committee, continues to possess “the best joint fighting force on Earth.” But only by spending countless additional billions of dollars annually, he added, can this country hope to “outpace” China’s projected advances in the decades to come.
The prospect of a renewed Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement between Greece and the United States – possibly extended over five years – is an extremely important development, given the challenging geopolitical setting where events both in the immediate vicinity but also in more distant lands that may nevertheless affect us, are creating a growing sense of insecurity.
The US-Greece relationship has acquired its own momentum and, more importantly, is able to progress under different administrations in Washington (and majorities in Congress) and Athens.
Up until a few years ago, American decision makers regarded Greece with some skepticism (the approach was similar in Israel too) because of successive Greek governments’ efforts not to appear too pro-American in the eyes of a public known for decades for its knee-jerk, anti-American reaction and, at best, for marked suspicion of the US. This was due to specific American interventions in Greek domestic affairs in the past, but…
BAICHENG, Aug. 30 — The first echelon of the Chinese troops to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) “Peace Mission 2021” joint anti-terrorism military exercise left Baicheng, northeast China’s Jilin Province, for the exercise venue in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, by railway on the evening of August 26.
The drill will be held at the Donguz training ground in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, from September 11 to 25. Eight SCO member states including China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, India, Pakistan and Uzbekistan will dispatch a total force of about 4000 to participate in the exercise, among which China will send over 550 troops and 130 vehicles (equipment).
By the US State Department’s own numbers, of the Afghanis that worked with us and were eligible to be evacuated out of Afghanistan, the majority of them were just left behind.
The official said they did not have a specific count of the Afghan Special Immigrant (SIV) applicants and family members who did not make it onto evacuation flights, “but I would say it’s the majority of them, just based on anecdotal information about the populations we were able to support.”
There were at least 20,000 SIV applicants in the pipeline prior to the US withdrawal, and the State Department has not provided a specific count of how many of the 123,000 people evacuated from Afghanistan fall into that category.
The State Department official told reporters that in early stages of the evacuation, the US tried to prioritize access for late-stage SIV applicants and other categories, but said the effort was unsuccessful because “every credential we tried to provide electronically was immediately disseminated to the widest possible pool.”
“Every day was a constant improvisational effort to figure out what was going to work that day,” they said. “As we got deeper into the process, we…
The R9X, or to give it its full name the AGM-114R9X, is an air-to-ground missile (AGM) with reportedly six blades. There does not appear to be any public images of this missile before it has been fired. However, given that the R9X is a modified version of the well-known Hellfire family of missiles (code 114), and based on fragments recovered from the scene of attacks, it’s possible to make an educated guess about what it looks like.
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