At @npub1wdd6...h9qu we talk to Peter Cochrane, former head of BT Research about his ideas about a truth engine and AI:

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Pete Cochrane: Pursuing Truth | Plutopia News Network

Peter Cochrane talks about his lifelong pursuit of truth and his work on a “truth engine” that used AI to grade the reliability of news sources...

#podcast #AI

This week's net.wars, "Simplification", finds that a leaked draft indicates that the European Commission is seeking to weaken the legal regime that protects European digital rights, including data protection:

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Simplification

We were warned this was coming at this year's Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection, and now it's really here. The data protection NGO ...

#NetWars #AI #EUPol #privacy

At Skeptical Inquirer, Colin Wright explains the #mathematics of seduction:

The Mathematics of Seduction: Colin Wright | Skeptical Inquirer

“We’re going to investigate the patterns in the patterns,” Colin Wright explains in the first of a series of videos. This comes right after h...

In a new @npub1wdd6...h9qu #podcast we talk to Sophie Nightingale, researches deepfakes and whether humans can be trained to recognize them better:

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Sophie Nightingale: Our Minds on Digital Technology | Plutopia News Network

The Plutopia podcast hosts Dr. Sophie Nightingale, a psychologist at Lancaster University, to discuss how digital technology — especially social ...

This week's net.wars, "The panopticon in your home", is disturbed by HMRC's use of passenger records to deny benefits, and ponders the word "robot" in connection with something that has to be remotely operated by a human:

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The panopticon in your home

In a series of stories, Lisa O'Carroll at the Guardian finds that His Majesty's Revenue and Customs has had its hand in the cookie jar of...

#NetWars #privacy #robots

This week's net.wars, "The gated web", we think that AI browsers bring the wrong kind of change:

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The gated web

What is an AI browser? Or, in a more accurate representation of my mental reaction, *WTF* is an AI browser? In wondering about this, I'm cle...

In the latest @npub1wdd6...h9qu #podcast episode we grill @npub12w9p...zpgr Ben Collier about his new(ish) biography of Tor:

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Ben Collier: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy | Plutopia News Network

Ben Collier, Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, joins Plutopia to discuss ...