During WWII, Britain had a rather questionable plan involving a dead body. Surprisingly, it was hugely successful. “Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. Two members of British intelligence obtained the body of Glyndwr Michael, a […]
Extinction risk from superintelligence should be a global priority. It’s been 3 years and almost nothing has changed. The only solution is law. Contact your lawmakers now: https://controlai.org/aperture Intelligence is a hierarchy. And for all of human history, we’ve sat comfortably at the top of it. We’re not the fastest […]
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President Donald Trump said he is tapping Bill Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as the acting Director of National Intelligence. Pulte will keep running the FHFA as well. Bloomberg’s Tyler Kendall reports. ——– More on Bloomberg Television and Markets Like this video? Subscribe and turn on […]
Take the 2023 PBS Survey: https://to.pbs.org/pbssurvey2023p The details of Walter Loving’s complicated double life remained classified for over 60 years. Born to formerly enslaved parents, he became a famous band conductor and an advocate for Black Americans. When the U.S. military grew paranoid that Black Americans were colluding with German […]
We all want to always be right. But in order to ever be right, we must first learn how to sometimes be wrong. Without the ability to admit wrongness, we will never be able to learn, grow, and adapt. It is the power of humility and critical thinking that will […]
It is not who you can control outside of yourself, but what you can control inside yourself that makes someone a strong archetypal leader.
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How does today’s artificial intelligence actually work— and is it truly intelligent? Premiering May 16, 2018 at 9/8c on PBS Artificially intelligent machines are taking over. They’re influencing our everyday lives in profound and often invisible ways. They can read handwriting, interpret emotions, play games, and even act as personal […]
