Scientists have created a machine with the potential to read our dreams while we sleep. The data from the brain scanner has already been used to detect and reconstruct images of faces that people are thinking of. Researchers believe the same technology could be used in the future to enable them to reconstruct images from people’s memories, imagination and dreams. It could also possibly be used to collect images of criminals from the minds of witnesses. Alan Cowen, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, said: ‘Our methods yield strikingly accurate neural reconstructions of faces. ‘This represents a novel and promising approach for investigating face perception, but also suggests avenues for reconstructing ‘offline’ visual experiences — including dreams, memories and imagination.’
Musk, Hawking Serious Over A.I. Dangers, Robot Uprising
Two leading voices in the world of science and technology warn that robots equipped with artificial intelligence could be leading humanity down a dangerous path. Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX and Tesla motors, told a pair of CNBC reporters that he thought robots were “dangerous.” “There have been movies about this, you know, like Terminator.” Despite his reservations, Musk himself has recently invested in an artificial intelligence company. Meanwhile, writing in The Independent, Stephen Hawking warned there are “no fundamental limits” to what machines may be able to accomplish in the future. “One can imagine such technology outsmarting and out-inventing human, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand,” Hawking writes.
What Should Our Theology Be... Regarding Killer Robots?In Surprised by Hope, theologian N. T. Wright discusses the "myth of progress," which he describes as "the idea that the human project, and indeed the cosmic project, could and would continue to grow and develop, producing unlimited human improvement and marching toward a utopia." He traces this myth to the Renaissance and European Enlightenment. Scientific and economic advances, coupled democratic freedoms and wider education, produced "a strong sense that history was accelerating toward a wonderful goal." This myth motivates much of the social and political activism of our day. With help from government and society, our hard work can make our lives better in every way, or so we're told. However, as Wright points out...
How The Trans-Agenda Seeks To Redefine EveryoneBecause erasing gender distinctions, especially as they apply to childbearing and rearing, would serve to legally un-define what it means to be human. A new legal definition of human—as neither male nor female—would apply to you whether you like it or not. Already, there is social pressure for everyone to comply with the gender theory notion that biological facts are mere “social constructs.” We should especially care because we are well on the way to enacting such laws already. In November, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). The law is based on the assumption that one’s perceived “gender identity” does not always “match” your sex “assigned” or “designated” at birth. So, the thinking goes, the law should allow a more ambiguous...
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