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• Technocrats At DEA Swept Up Data In Defiance Of Law

  29-03-2019 16:19 via technocracy.news
  Let this be a lesson that the Technocrat mind has no space for adhering to individual laws or more generally, the rule of law. We have seen consistent and repeated instances of willful disregard within the intelligence community for years, from the NSA, FBI, CIA, and now the DEA. ⁃ TN EditorThe administration “failed to conduct a comprehensive legal analysis” of three NSA-style bulk data collection programs, according to the Justice Department Inspector General.The Drug En
  
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• Pentagon Pursues AI-Powered Weapons Despite Public Outcry

  29-03-2019 15:58 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats in the military who build simply because they can, are a threat to the entire world. Technology that serves and helps humans, not kill or control them, is what mankind desires. ⁃ TN EditorThe controversy surrounding military artificial intelligence is rooted in “grave misperceptions” about what the department is actually trying to do, according to current and former Defense officials.
  Protecting the U.S. in the decades ahead will require the Pentagon to make “
  
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• AI In Health Care Predicts Who Will Die Prematurely

  29-03-2019 15:22 via technocracy.news
  Predict. Henri de Saint-Simon,  the early father of Technocracy, defined Scientism: “A scientist, my dear friends, is a man who foresees; it is because science provides the means to predict that it is useful, and the scientists are superior to all other men.”
  Insurance companies will punish consumers with this technology as they measure risk, often falsely, to determine who will get sick with what disease and when they will die. The following study does not include DNA analysis,
  
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