Software could make ethically superior decisions to humans in high-pressure moments, claims ex-GCHQ head David Omand
Drones will need to be programmed with moral guidelines as AI-driven decision making reduces human involvement in autonomous warfare, according to a former UK spy chief.
David Omand told the Guardian that he had changed his mind on unmanned weapons systems, more than a decade after concluding that autonomous drones could not comply with international humanitarian law.
Continue reading...
A Goldman Sachs tech specialist thinks one sector of the market looks particularly exciting amid historic stock gains. Peter Callahan, a telecom sector specialist, says in a new interview that US internet stocks have lagged software this year and haven’t received enough attention. “There are ongoing debates about sources of funds, about ongoing investment cycles, […]
The post Goldman Sachs Specialist Outlines Equity Sector He’s Excited About Amid Historic Tech Stock Boom appeared first on The Daily Hodl.
While the technology is set to play a growing role in modern warfare, there remains an unresolved ethical challenge
Should the AI-powered drones of the future have a licence to kill? The question is becoming ever more pressing as governments and the defence industry acknowledge that drone systems will play an increasingly crucial role in future warfare.
With drones being deployed in huge numbers in the Ukraine war and AI being used to assist bombing missions in the Iran conflict, there is an expectation among some observers that weapons will have to operate with increased operational autonomy, which means they will need something approximating a moral framework.
Continue reading...
The artificial intelligence landscape in 2026 looks nothing like it did even eighteen months ago. We have moved well past the era of chatbot demos and speculative hype. What is happening now is structural, an irreversible rewiring of how software is built, how music is made, how enterprises find information, and how humanity thinks about […]
When I was a kid, we all marveled at the notion of the Star Trek computer that you’d just talk to and that would answer all your questions. It seemed impossibly fantastic and categorically impossible. Well, we have that now. In one episode, Captain Kirk used a universal translator to communicate with an alien (never mind that the aliens always seemed to speak English..). Today, everyone’s phone can do real-time translations between all the most commonly spoken languages on the planet.
If you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m bullish on agentic coding. I think it’s marvelous, I think it will bring about an increase in software development jobs, and I think it will bring about unprecedented growth in the production of software. It’s that last point I want to explore a bit more deeply, because I think an explosion of software is coming.
Thomas Watson, the legendary IBM CEO, is often misquoted as saying, “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” The true story is that
Online publishers are getting more control over whether their websites appear in Google's AI Search features, thanks to a UK regulatory ruling. The new conduct rule imposed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) requires Google to let website owners keep their content out of features like AI Overviews, and prevent it from being used for the "fine-tuning" of Google's AI models.
"In a world first, publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their content being used to power AI features in search, such as AI Overviews," the CMA announced. "This will put publishers, like news organizations, in a stronger position to negotiate c …
Read the full story at The Verge.
South Korea’s Kospi stock market has hit record highs thanks to AI, but experts urge caution over boom-bust cycles and a heavy reliance on two chipmakers
South Korea has leapfrogged India to become the world’s sixth largest share market, leaving equity markets in the UK, Germany and France trailing in its dust. But despite the runaway success, some are raising concerns that the Kospi index is too dependent on two freshly minted trillion-dollar chipmaking companies.
Chip company SK Hynix last week claimed a seat in Asia’s trillion-dollar company club, alongside South Korean compatriot Samsung Electronics and Taiwan’s TSMC. Explosive demand for chips used in AI has propelled the trio past the valuation threshold.
Continue reading...
