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Judge Napolitano: ‘Twitter has freedom of speech just like you and I and the president himself’ – Fox News

Posted: May 29, 2020 at 1:13 am

Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano told America's Newsroom Wednesday that President Trump is right thatsocial media platforms showbiasagainst conservatives, but added that as a private company,Twitter has the right to control speech on their platform.

The president is ...understandably not happy about his being fact-checked. I mean, nobody would [be], said Napolitano, who emphasized thatTwitter is a privately owned and publicly held company, and the First Amendment only applies togovernment-regulated institutions.

The government does not regulate Twitter, Napolitano said.

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Earlier Wednesday,Trump warned social media giantsthat the federal government could strongly regulate or close them down if they continue to silence conservative voices, his latest salvo in a running battle with Twitterafter the platformfact-checkedone of his tweets for the first time this week.

It is unclear what authority, if any, the president was citing in his threat, but the tweets surely were meant to escalate pressure on the platform that hosted them.

Napolitano stated thatTwitter can take down, modify, or correct any user [of its platform] at once, including the president of the United States."

As for his threat to regulate or put Twitterout of business, that, of course, would require legislation which is somewhat unlikely between now and November," he added."There also would be legal issues if the effort were aimed at silencing someone who has the freedom of speech."

"Look, I dont like what they say, but Ill defend to the death their right to say it," he went on. "Under the Supreme Court's opinion that the president likes called 'Citizens United,' Twitter has freedom of speech just like you and I and the president himself.

Twitter slapped a warning label on one of Trumps tweetsfor the first time Tuesday, cautioning readers that despite the presidents claims about mail-in ballots, fact-checkers say there is no evidence that mail-in voting would increase fraud risks and that experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud.

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Within minutes, the presidentaccused Twitter of interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post, while adding that the platform is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and vowing that I, as President, will not allow that to happen.

Twitters new warning label was issued even though a Twitter spokesperson acknowledged to Fox News that Trumps tweet had not broken any of the platforms rules, and even though some other experts have raised fraud concerns surrounding mail-in voting.

Fox News' Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

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La dolce vita? Italians embrace their freedom but crowded beaches and nightlife worry officials – CNBC

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The Italian national aerobatic team, the Frecce Tricolore, flies over the Piazza Duomo of Milan on May 25, 2020 in Milan, Italy. Restaurants, bars, cafes, hairdressers and other shops have reopened, subject to social distancing measures, after more than two months of a nationwide lockdown meant to curb the spread of Covid-19.

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Italians are embracing their freedom from a strict coronavirus lockdown by heading to the country's beaches and piazzas, but officials are warning that too little thought is being paid to the danger of a second wave of infections.

Footage broadcast on Italian TV at the weekend showed young Italians partying and drinking in groups in both northern and southern Italy. The resumption of Italy's "movida," or nightlife, has prompted the authorities to warn citizens to behave more cautiously.

Regional Affairs Minister Francesco Boccia told La Stampa newspaper Monday that the government will not open up travel between Italian regions, expected as part of its "Phase Two" lifting of lockdown restrictions and due to take place on June 2, if mass social gatherings continue.

"Be careful, if it goes on like this we won't be able to reopen regions," he told the newspaper. "I understand the young people, but we cannot cancel the efforts (made): at the end of the week the government will evaluate the situation based on the number of infections."

"We must not forget that we are still facing Covid-19 and so those who fuel a movida are betraying the sacrifices made by millions of Italians," he warned.

The green light to socialize last weekend was a breath of fresh air for Italians who have endured more than two months of strict lockdown rules, told to stay at home unless they had to go out for essentials such as food and medicine.As of May 18, bars, restaurants and museums were allowed to reopen, as well as shops, hairdressers and beaches.

Beaches were a popular destination for many Italians making the most of the good weather, with some coastal towns, like Castiglione della Pescaia, noted for how busy they were at the weekend. Lorenzo, who works at Bar La Fronte in the Tuscan coastal resort, told CNBC that his bar was busy but that most customers were respecting social distancing rules.

"This last weekend there were a lot of people everywhere, on the beaches, in the parks, in the streets of the center ... and also in the nightlife clubs like ours," he told CNBC Tuesday. "People had respect for (social) distances except in a few cases."

But Lorenzo said he believed it would be "impossible" to maintain social distances during the summer season, "when the country is really full and not only in terms of nightlife, but also on the beach and streets, the seafront etc, which are crowded in summer, like all seaside resorts."

Having witnessed crowds gathered at the weekend, some Italians shared their concerns over the apparent lack of social distancing on Twitter, especially given Italy's experience of the virus that has led to the deaths of almost 33,000 people.

Italy's city mayors are not happy either and have taken to social mediato implore locals to abide by the rules, or risk a return of restrictions.

Vincenzo Napoli, the mayor of Salerno, said he'd seen too many crowds and traffic in the southern Italian city at the weekend. "There seems to have been some sort of psychological repression of what has happened so far, just like an emotional release. This is the worst that can happen," he said, according to the Gazetta di Salerno newspaper. "Lowering your guard at this stage means returning to the terrifying action of the virus," he warned.

Meanwhile, crowds heading to mountains around Turin prompted both hopes of a recovery for the local economy, but also concern over thenumber of people gathering to enjoy the outdoors. The mayor of one local commune, Usseglio, described the scenes of crowds there as "disastrous."

Beppe Sala, the mayor of Milan, the capital city of Lombardy which became the epicenter of Italy coronavirus outbreak in late February said on Twitter Monday that "we cannot imagine having a second weekend like the one just ended."

On Sunday, Sala said on Facebook that he had spoken to other mayors of major cities and, "there is frustration in us because we all agree that with the available law enforcement agencies it is not possible to manage the gatherings and that the call to common sense works only up to a certain point."

Luca Zaia, the governor of the Veneto region, also posted a video on Twitter Sunday under the title "Happy hour" showing Italians socializing interspersed with images of intensive care wards.

Some mayors have closed their main squares, and bars, to discourage mass gatherings, including the mayors of Brescia and Perugia.

Regional Affairs Minister Boccia had said that 60,000 people could be employed to help enforce social distancing and the wearing of masks in public places, but the plan has met with opposition.

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They fought for our freedom and this is how theyre honoured? – Sault Star

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If the ravages of COVID-19 in this country havent shocked you enough, perhaps youre asleep at the wheel.

Most deaths have occurred in long-term care homes, the elderly and vulnerable unable to defend themselves against the virus. Quebec has the highest number of casualties while Ontario is not far behind.

The inadequate monetary support from all governments all political parties that have formed those governments over many decades is at the root of the tragedy. Lets be clear: not all these facilities are grossly substandard or in poor shape.

The release of new information from Canadian military personnel who worked in these homes to help with the COVID-19 crisis is absolutely appalling. It is disgusting and inhumane.

Reports of residents being force-fed while lying down, not being taken out of bed for weeks, not being fed, positive COVID-19 cases not isolated, abuse, neglect, the list goes on.

Apparently one death is attributed to force-feeding and choking as a result.

It took the Canadian military to unearth this evil underbelly of some care homes. They were possibly caring for veterans who fought for this country, who are now penned up like the animals in puppy mills.

The operators/owners of these places should be charged and thrown in jail.

Most homes operate to provide the best care possible with the resources they have. But operating with inadequate funding can only lead to the myriad of issues some of these homes are up against.

But the ones that are failing to meet standards have caused Canadas COVID-19 death rate soar. Images of four beds to a room, separated by a curtain, do not fall into even the most basic infection, protection and control protocols.

Its a crime and governments need to regulate and do routine checks on all homes, improve working conditions and pay, then concentrate on building modern facilities.

None of this should come at the expense of the residents these measures are intended to protect. They pay a fortune to stay in these places as it is, so hammering more debt upon them is taking the vulnerable and forcing them into bankruptcy.

These are the people who have paid taxes, worked, raised families, volunteered, and ultimately went to war to save our freedoms from the Nazi occupations. Their brothers died over there; many came back with PTSD as a result of the horrors.

They gave birth to the boomer generation and now we are warehousing them in places we ourselves would likely never consider going to. A blame game should not evolve from this, but instead positive and concrete plans need to be put in place with enough money to make them come into fruition; soon.

The following are some reflections on the Canadians we are housing in these care facilities. They made our life of freedom possible. This is the thanks we give?

May 5, 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands from the Nazi occupation in the Second World War. Most of the Canadians who fought and returned home are in their nineties now and every year there are fewer of them left.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke of the incredible courage of the Canadians and Newfoundlanders who fought and gave their lives to liberate the Netherlands from the tyranny of Nazi Germany.

He went on to say that the surrender of the German forces 75 years ago was accepted by Canada and marked the end of the suffering of the Dutch people from years of unspeakable cruelty, misery and hunger.

January 20, 2020, marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi extermination camp, by the Soviet army. Of the 1.1 million murdered there, most were Jews.

These extermination camps were government sponsored and enforced. Survivors came to the ceremonies from all over the world, the youngest was 75, the oldest 101,and their concern for these killing factories was similar.

They worried about the rise of anti-Semitism in the world and they returned so their memories of the torture they endured was once again fresh and alive. One man said he didnt want the world to get amnesia and forget the Nazi plan to murder on mass, European Jews.

I remember seeing the ceremonies at Auschwitz, the visitors having had to go through the infamous gait, bearing the words, Work will make you free. Their freedom was death.

The looks on their faces was heartbreaking. They were weeping, knowing they would never be back and fearing their suffering and the Holocaust, itself, would become footnotes in history.

Last summer, June 6, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Normandy, or D-Day, was celebrated with many elderly veterans making their way to France.

The Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy and the losses were devastating. There were 14,000 Canadians landing at Juno Beach, and 5,000 died there. It was a very urgent invasion in order to drive back the Nazi occupation.

Indigenous Canadians, First Nations, Inuit and Metis, have been an integral part of every conflict. They celebrate and are proud of their contributions, bravery and recognition. According to Veteran Affairs Canada, thousands enlisted for the First World War, Second World War, the Korean War and many also served with the American military. Women were active on the home front, some enlisting.

In many instances during the conflicts, and certainly after in peacetime, they were not treated equally as far as benefits supposedly available to all veterans. Some struggled to repatriate. R. Scott Sheffield wrote in an article that appeared in the Canadian Encyclopedia that many found return to societal racism and marginalization hard, especially after the acceptance they had in uniform.

A Veteran Affairs website article published in February describes the exemplary second to none service black Canadians gave during the worlds major conflicts. The Second World War saw a considerable increase in their enlistment numbers.

They fought side by side with their white counterparts and, on the home-front worked in factories. However, many found the return to societal racism and marginalization hard after the acceptance they had while in uniform.

But many immigrants to Canada, before and after both world wars, particularly Japanese, Germans, Italians and Ukrainians, were treated as criminals. They were discriminated against, arrested, detained, deported, incarcerated and had their properties and belongings sold because of their ethnicity. They were considered internal enemies and a threat to their own country.

Former prime minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau said in 1969 that, We must never forget in the long run; a democracy is judged by the way the majority treats the minority.

So, 51 years later, many of these Canadians have died or are in care homes.

We can thank COVID-19 for nothing. It has ravaged the globe, but it did expose the challenges elder care homes are up against. First and foremost, it has revealed the conditions many of the residents of these homes endure as a normal way of life.

It is believed that a society is judged on how it cares for its elders. We have failed. The irony is years in the making and the solution should be based on productive and swift action by all levels of government.

Leave the blame game behind because it will only waste precious time.

Patricia Baker is a Sault Star district correspondent

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For the love of freedom – TheArticle

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I used to have a strong conviction about the essence of human nature: it was that the strongest motivating factor in us is the yearning for personal freedom. The freedom to choose our path in life, to choose how we want to live and think, to determine our own destiny. The opposite, in fact, of being enslaved by totalitarian governments and totalitarian belief systems. Im sure this conviction sprang from my beginnings as a child refugee of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, which demonstrated that human beings will fight any battle, whatever the odds and however great the risks, in order to win those freedoms.

Tragically, the Hungarian people lost that fight against the Soviet tanks many thousands were killed, imprisoned, executed. The Revolutions mild-mannered leader, Prime Minister Imre Nagy, was hanged on Khrushchevs orders as a lesson to all other leaders in socialist countries.

My father Peter Halasz was a Hungarian writer who witnessed his countrys momentous events of 1956. He later wrote that, despite the crushing of the uprising, the truths proclaimed by Nagy survived hid in office corners, in the winding corridors of public buildings, in the cracks of walls. No ideological spring cleaning could root them out. Truth, like a faithful dog, cannot be banished; once it has found a home and affection, truth clings to its owner, despite occasional kicks.

This truth, the fact of Mans powerful desire to be free of the shackles imposed by others, was further reinforced by my schooling in America. I was taught that our greatest national heroes were the leaders of the American Revolution, and the Founding Fathers of the most freedom-loving nation in the world. Men like Patrick Henry, who famously declared: Give me liberty, or give me death! Powerful words like that are engraved in your psyche forever.

Communism was therefore bound to fall in Europe, sooner or later.

But over the past decade or two Ive had to reconsider my ideas on this theme. Because you cannot have seen the goings-on in the world without noticing another, equally powerful human instinct: tribalism. The primitive urge to belong to a particular grouping and adhere to its strictures, no matter how egregiously they limit personal freedom, and to accept unquestioningly the abhorrent notion that the grouping is most clearly defined by its perceived enemies.

This is nothing new. Take Iran, for example. The overthrow of the oppressive regime of the Shah in 1979 could have heralded the dawn of a more egalitarian, democratic society in which people could breathe freely. Instead the population embraced, seemingly en masse, an even more tyrannical theocracy. I found it hard to understand the mindset of those vast crowds of young men and women mostly of student age frenziedly ushering in an era of Islamist repression. Wasnt youth supposed to favour the liberalising of social and cultural norms? And have they still not had enough, after four decades of brainwashing by the ayatollahs, to do something about it?

More recent events have reinforced my view that, to the detriment of civilisation, the rush to tribalism often trumps a desire for freedom. Take those teenage girls and young women living in our free western societies often very bright and with good prospects who chose to abscond to the Middle East, don the burka and throw in their lot with murderous jihadists. Youd have thought they might at least be squeamish about all that beheading, but not a bit of it. There are still tens of thousands of unrepentant ISIS brides/widows in camps in Syria.

But all is not lost. The one shining beacon in the world today is provided by the democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Young people risking everything to hold on to their cherished freedoms, taking on the might of the Chinese Communist Party as it moves to extinguish one country, two systems. I have followed them with admiration. A video of a recent anti-government rally shows a protester shouting at the massed ranks of riot police: You call us cockroaches thats what Hitler called the Jews before he massacred them! He went on to quote Martin Luther King: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, before ending on that well-remembered line from my school days: Give me liberty or give me death! which put a knot in my throat.

These courageous Hong Kongese are going some way to restoring my faith in our better human nature. I only worry that, as with Hungary in 1956, taking on your communist overlords in this fearless manner will end in a bloodbath. China is more than capable of another Tiananmen Square.

Id like to think that students here are following the events in Hong Kong and learning vital lessons from them. So often our student societies in alliance with craven university administrations are more intent on curtailing free speech than protecting it, with their no-platforming of anyone whose views they dislike, and their diktats on which words and expressions are permissible. Thats all just another form of that alarmingly retrograde thing: tribalism. There should be no place for it in todays Britain.

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The G7 must stand up for Hong Kongs freedom | Free to read – Financial Times

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The writer was the last British governor of Hong Kong

Chinas assault on Hong Kongs freedom and its outrageous breach of its treaty obligations to this great city are matters of global concern. More than 200 politicians and senior policymakers from 23 countries from every side of politics have alreadysigned a statement denouncing Beijings action. The UK must ensure that Chinas efforts to impose a new national security law on the territory are on the agenda for the G7 meeting next month.

After the handover of Hong Kong by Britain to China in 1997, the territory by and large survived with its freedoms intact on the basis of one country two systems until Xi Jinping took over in 2013. Since then, Mr Xi has basically reversed policies pursued by his predecessors. He has reasserted Communist party control and cracked down on civil society and on any dissident activity. He has locked up Uighurs in Xinjiang and has now turned the screw on Hong Kong.

Mr Xi has instructed government and party officials to attack every sign of liberal democracy and its values, clearly a reason why he has targeted Hong Kong. His reign has been characterised by mendacity and a blustering disregard for international law and agreements. He has reneged onpromises to the former US president Barack Obama over the militarisation of the South China Sea. Countries that question his communist regime as Australia has done over coronavirus arethreatened with economic punishmentdespite international trade rules.

Now Hong Kong has felt the full weight of his bruising methods. While the rest of the world is preoccupied with fighting Covid-19, he has in effect ripped up theJoint Declaration, a treaty lodged at the UN to guarantee Hong Kongs way of life till 2047.

Last year,millions of Hong Kongers protested against an extradition bill that would have destroyed the firewall between the rule of law in Hong Kong and what passes for the law in China. Partly because of heavy-handed policing and government by tear gas and pepper spray, there was inexcusable violence by a small minority on the edges of these huge demonstrations. Even so, the majority of Hong Kong citizens showed where their sympathies lay by voting overwhelmingly for those who had supported the demonstrations in last NovembersDistrict Council elections.

Terrified that elections for a new Legislative Council in September may produce a democratic majority, Beijing has decided to introduce by fiat (bypassing Hong Kongs own parliament) national security legislation that includes laws on sedition and subversion. It will give Chinas Ministry of State Security the right to operate there. With its well-earned reputation for coercion and torture, it will not be there to sell dim sum.

Britain must take the lead in standing up for Hong Kong and for honouring the treaty obligations. We have a political and moral obligation to do so. We owe it to the people of Hong Kong whose only crime is that they want to live with the freedoms they were promised.

If China destroys the rule of law in Hong Kong it will ruin the citys chances of continuing to be a great international financial hub that mediates abouttwo-thirds of the direct investment in and out of China. Many great companies that have prospered in Hong Kong are important to Britains wellbeing. With China itself, the UK has had a large trade deficit for years.

Britain needs to have a relationship with China to deal with global problems, including Covid-19. We can trust the people of China, like the brave doctors who tried to blow the whistle on the cover-up in the pandemics early stages. But we cannot trust Mr Xis regime. The UK and its friends, starting with the G7, must take a firm stand against a regime that is an enemy of open societies everywhere. If we fail to do this, where will we be in five or 10 years time, politically humiliated and morally compromised? Nothing gained but honour lost.

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How Britain’s oldest universities are trying to protect humanity from risky A.I. – CNBC

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Oxford and Cambridge, the oldest universities in Britain and two of the oldest in the world, are keeping a watchful eye on the buzzy field of artificial intelligence (AI), which has been hailed as a technology that will bring about a new industrial revolution and change the world as we know it.

Over the last few years, each of the centuries-old institutions have pumped millions of pounds into researching the possible risks associated with machines of the future.

Clever algorithms can already outperform humans at certain tasks. For example, they can beat the best human players in the world at incredibly complex games like chess and Go, and they're able to spot cancerous tumors in a mammogram far quicker than a human clinician can. Machines can also tell the difference between a cat and a dog, or determine a random person's identity just by looking at a photo of their face. They can also translate languages, drive cars, and keep your home at the right temperature. But generally speaking, they're still nowhere near as smart as the average 7-year-old.

The main issue is that AI can't multitask. For example, a game-playing AI can't yet paint a picture. In other words, AI today is very "narrow" in its intelligence. However, computer scientists at the the likes of Google and Facebook are aiming to make AI more "general" in the years ahead, and that's got some big thinkers deeply concerned.

Nick Bostrom, a 47-year-old Swedish born philosopher and polymath, founded the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) at the University of Oxford in 2005 to assess how dangerous AI and other potential threats might be to the human species.

In the main foyer of the institute, complex equations beyond most people's comprehension are scribbled on whiteboards next to words like "AI safety" and "AI governance." Pensive students from other departments pop in and out as they go about daily routines.

It's rare to get an interview with Bostrom, a transhumanist who believes that we can and should augment our bodies with technology to help eliminate ageing as a cause of death.

"I'm quite protective about research and thinking time so I'm kind of semi-allergic to scheduling too many meetings," he says.

Tall, skinny and clean shaven, Bostrom has riled some AI researchers with his openness to entertain the idea that one day in the not so distant future, machines will be the top dog on Earth. He doesn't go as far as to say when that day will be, but he thinks that it's potentially close enough for us to be worrying about it.

Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom is a polymath and the author of "Superintelligence."

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If and when machines possess human-level artificial general intelligence, Bostrom thinks they could quickly go on to make themselves even smarter and become superintelligent. At this point, it's anyone's guess what happens next.

The optimist says the superintelligent machines will free up humans from work and allow them to live in some sort of utopia where there's an abundance of everything they could ever desire. The pessimist says they'll decide humans are no longer necessary and wipe them all out.Billionare Elon Musk, who has a complex relationship with AI researchers, recommended Bostrom's book "Superintelligence" on Twitter.

Bostrom's institute has been backed with roughly $20 million since its inception. Around $14 million of that coming from the Open Philanthropy Project, a San Francisco-headquartered research and grant-making foundation. The rest of the money has come from the likes of Musk and the European Research Council.

Located in an unassuming building down a winding road off Oxford's main shopping street, the institute is full of mathematicians, computer scientists, physicians, neuroscientists, philosophers, engineers and political scientists.

Eccentric thinkers from all over the world come here to have conversations over cups of tea about what might lie ahead. "A lot of people have some kind of polymath and they are often interested in more than one field," says Bostrom.

The FHI team has scaled from four people to about 60 people over the years. "In a year, or a year and a half, we will be approaching 100 (people)," says Bostrom. The culture at the institute is a blend of academia, start-up and NGO, according to Bostrom, who says it results in an "interesting creative space of possibilities" where there is "a sense of mission and urgency."

If AI somehow became much more powerful, there are three main ways in which it could end up causing harm, according to Bostrom. They are:

"Each of these categories is a plausible place where things could go wrong," says Bostrom.

With regards to machines turning against humans, Bostrom says that if AI becomes really powerful then "there's a potential risk from the AI itself that it does something different than anybody intended that could then be detrimental."

In terms of humans doing bad things to other humans with AI, there's already a precedent there as humans have used other technological discoveries for the purpose of war or oppression. Just look at the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for example. Figuring out how to reduce the risk of this happening with AI is worthwhile, Bostrom says, adding that it's easier said than done.

I think there is now less need to emphasize primarily the downsides of AI.

Asked if he is more or less worried about the arrival of superintelligent machines than he was when his book was published in 2014, Bostrom says the timelines have contracted.

"I think progress has been faster than expected over the last six years with the whole deep learning revolution and everything," he says.

When Bostrom wrote the book, there weren't many people in the world seriously researching the potential dangers of AI. "Now there is this thriving small, but thriving field of AI safety work with a number of groups," he says.

While there's potential for things to go wrong, Bostrom says it's important to remember that there are exciting upsides to AI and he doesn't want to be viewed as the person predicting the end of the world.

"I think there is now less need to emphasize primarily the downsides of AI," he says, stressing that his views on AI are complex and multifaceted.

Bostrom says the aim of FHI is "to apply careful thinking to big picture questions for humanity." The institute is not just looking at the next year or the next 10 years, it's looking at everything in perpetuity.

"AI has been an interest since the beginning and for me, I mean, all the way back to the 90s," says Bostrom. "It is a big focus, you could say obsession almost."

The rise of technology is one of several plausible ways that could cause the "human condition" to change in Bostrom's view. AI is one of those technologies but there are groups at the FHI looking at biosecurity (viruses etc), molecular nanotechnology, surveillance tech, genetics, and biotech (human enhancement).

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When it comes to AI, the FHI has two groups; one does technical work on the AI alignment problem and the other looks at governance issuesthat will arise as machine intelligence becomes increasingly powerful.

The AI alignment group is developing algorithms and trying to figure out how to ensure complex intelligent systems behave as we intend them to behave. That involves aligning them with "human preferences," says Bostrom.

Roughly 66 miles away at the University of Cambridge, academics are also looking at threats to human existence, albeit through a slightly different lens.

Researchers at the Center for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) are assessing biological weapons, pandemics, and, of course, AI.

We are dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks that could lead to human extinction or civilization collapse.

Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER)

"One of the most active areas of activities has been on AI," said CSER co-founder Lord Martin Rees from his sizable quarters at Trinity College in an earlier interview.

Rees, a renowned cosmologist and astrophysicist who was the president of the prestigious Royal Society from 2005 to 2010, is retired so his CSER role is voluntary, but he remains highly involved.

It's important that any algorithm deciding the fate of human beings can be explained to human beings, according to Rees. "If you are put in prison or deprived of your credit by some algorithm then you are entitled to have an explanation so you can understand. Of course, that's the problem at the moment because the remarkable thing about these algorithms like AlphaGo (Google DeepMind's Go-playing algorithm) is that the creators of the program don't understand how it actually operates. This is a genuine dilemma and they're aware of this."

The idea for CSER was conceived in the summer of 2011 during a conversation in the back of a Copenhagen cab between Cambridge academic Huw Price and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, whose donations account for 7-8% of the center's overall funding and equate to hundreds of thousands of pounds.

"I shared a taxi with a man who thought his chance of dying in an artificial intelligence-related accident was as high as that of heart disease or cancer," Price wrote of his taxi ride with Tallinn. "I'd never met anyone who regarded it as such a pressing cause for concern let alone anyone with their feet so firmly on the ground in the software business."

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CSER is studying how AI could be used in warfare, as well as analyzing some of the longer term concerns that people like Bostrom have written about. It is also looking at how AI can turbocharge climate science and agricultural food supply chains.

"We try to look at both the positives and negatives of the technology because our real aim is making the world more secure," says Sen higeartaigh, executive director at CSER and a former colleague of Bostrom's. higeartaigh, who holds a PhD in genomics from Trinity College Dublin, says CSER currently has three joint projects on the go with FHI.

External advisors include Bostrom and Musk, as well as other AI experts like Stuart Russell and DeepMind's Murray Shanahan. The late Stephen Hawking was also an advisor when he was alive.

The Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) was opened at Cambridge in 2016 and today it sits in the same building as CSER, a stone's throw from the punting boats on the River Cam. The building isn't the only thing the centers share staff overlap too and there's a lot of research that spans both departments.

Backed with over 10 million from the grant-making Leverhulme Foundation, the center is designed to support "innovative blue skies thinking," according to higeartaigh, its co-developer.

Was there really a need for another one of these research centers? higeartaigh thinks so. "It was becoming clear that there would be, as well as the technical opportunities and challenges, legal topics to explore, economic topics, social science topics," he says.

"How do we make sure that artificial intelligence benefits everyone in a global society? You look at issues like who's involved in the development process? Who is consulted? How does the governance work? How do we make sure that marginalized communities have a voice?"

The aim of CFI is to get computer scientists and machine-learning experts working hand in hand with people from policy, social science, risk and governance, ethics, culture, critical theory and so on. As a result, the center should be able to take a broad view of the range of opportunities and challenges that AI poses to societies.

"By bringing together people who think about these things from different angles, we're able to figure out what might be properly plausible scenarios that are worth trying to mitigate against," said higeartaigh.

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HBO Max may have just hit the market, but we already know what it's bringing next month.

In June 2020, the streaming service will offer tons of new movie titles like Titanic, Ad Astra, Doctor Sleep, Bridget Jones's Baby, A Cinderella Story, Speed Racer, The Bucket List, The Neverending Story, The Good Liar, Uncle Buck, When Harry Met Sally, and more.

As for TV, HBO Max will debut new seasons of Search Party, Doom Patrol, and Summer Camp Island alongside the series premieres of Perry Mason, Karma, I May Destroy You, and I'll Be Gone in the Dark. Plus, we'll get Seasons 1-24 of South Park and a standup special from Yvonne Orji.

Check out everything coming to HBO Max in June 2020.

After three painful years, Search Party is finally back. The dark comedy from Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, and Michael Showalter originally premiered on TBS in 2016 with its spectacular second season arriving in 2017. Now, it has been picked up for its third and fourth seasons at HBO Max so if you're new to the search party, now's the perfect time to catch up.

This satirical joyride follows Dory (Alia Shawkat) and her gaggle of entitled friends as they seek to solve the mysterious disappearance of Chantal Witherbottom. Stupidly funny and surprisingly tense, this series checks all the boxes and escalates in ways you can't imagine.

How to watch: Search Party Season 3 premieres June 25 on HBO Max.

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In a fitting finale, "The Good Fight" makes the case for nipping Jeffrey Epstein whodunit in the bud – Salon

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Call it kismet, if you like. Usually the circumstances inspiring that term's invocation are poetic and positive. Colored thusly, it might not seem right to apply the world to the circumstances surrounding the unintentional fourth season finale of "The Good Fight" because roduction had to halt on the drama when the pandemic sped up its nasty sweep across the country and the globe. In a pre-COVID-19 world, creators and showrunners Robert and Michelle King had scripted three more episodes that did not get shot.

But ending a conspiracy-driven season with "The Gang Discovers Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein," its seventh episode, is apt if not ideal. Circumstances forced this episode to transform from one of the series' fictionalized departures into a stranger-than-fiction real story into if not the last word on this arc a cliffhanger at least. And the coincidental timing of its debut is remarkable, arriving in the same week as the debut of "Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich" on Netflixand the"Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein?" special on ID.

The producers acknowledge these strange days and the crimes born from corrupt leadership in other ways, too. They replaced the drama's operatic theme with John Prine's "My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight" to open the finale. They did the same with the sixth episode, featuring Fountains of Wayne's "Hey Julie." Both were tributes since Prine and Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger both died of complications linked to COVID-19.

Remember, though, that Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart partner Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) ushered us into this latest round of fictionalized adventures through the gateway of a nightmare her nightmare. The premiere dropped us into her dream of an alternate timeline in which Hillary Clinton won the 2016 presidential election, but #MeToo never happened. Diane, in her dream, was assigned to lead the firm's defense of Harvey Weinstein which, understandably, made her apoplectic.

Capping off this round, "The Good Fight" going down the conspiracy water slide surrounding Epstein's deathcreates a convenient if coincidental bookend. Two of the biggest stories within this era of women shedding light on the sexual abuses inflicted by powerful men are acknowledged in this fourth season.

The "gang's" services are retained by U.S. Attorney Wilbur Dincon (Adam Heller), who tasks the firm with hunting down the truth of how Epstein died in his jail cell last August while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges, promising more work if they solve the case. The financier's official cause of death is suicide by hanging, but some believe he was killed.

Commence a wild airing of multiple conspiracy theories by way of a firm-wide tumble down some of the same conspiracy worm holes torn open on Reddit and 4chan, spearheaded by Liz (Audra McDonald). Some of them, and the evidence supporting them, were ginned up by the writers. But the kookiest details are connected to true stories.

One draws a connection between Epstein and Attorney General William Barr by way of a book written by Barr's father Donald titled "Space Relations," which is about child sexual slavery in space. The book actually exists.

Another branch of the path opens up by way of breaking down Epstein's obsession with transhumanism and seeding women with his DNA to create a "superior" breed of human, which also happens to be true.

The point of all this craziness, though, is to illustrate how efficiently evil works to distract the average person. While Liz and the associates are neck deep in digging through evidence, decoding odd messages ,and constructing an impressive crazy wall in the company's conference room, the other two name partners, Diane and Adrian (Delroy Lindo) are informed by their icy-blooded overlord Gavin Firth (John Larroquette) that they need to cut a fifth of their staff.

As for the season's core mystery, concerning a secret directive known as Memo 618 that renders the rich and powerful legally bulletproof, we don't get to the bottom of what the memo is or which entities are behind it. That will have to wait until the fifth season, whenever that airs. And when it does, the conspiracy's relevance and accompanying subtext will probably hold.

Part of the "to be continued" aspect of this storyline shows Julius Cain (Michael Boatman), a newly seated federal judge, being arrested on cooked-up charges after going to the Office of the Inspector General, hoping to blow the whistle on the memo's existence. Nearly everyone else is so glued to figuring out what really happened to Epstein that they barely notice the figurative guillotine being constructed in their midst, let alone dream their own heads might roll.

The episode title itself, "The Gang Discovers Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein," is intentionally misleading the gang doesn't get to the bottom of that mystery but not for lack of extreme effort. They do, however, come close to a shocking discovery when the firm's investigators Marissa (Sarah Steele) and Jay (Nyambi Nyambi) journeying by boat out to Epstein's exclusive island seeking the answer to who, or what a clue identified as "BUD" might be.

The answer, revealed after the duo gains entry to a locked room, is in part a "Citizen Kane" reference but in larger portion a shocking visual commentary on the extreme hubris of the excessively wealthy: "BUD" is the codename for the organ Epstein prized most, kept in cryogenic storage alongside his brain, making for one hell of a season-closing last look.

Amazing, and yet credible. Epstein was a pedophile and, by most accounts, an otherwise unremarkable human save for his connections, libertine privilege, bacchanals, and displays of opulence.

Whatwere we talking about again? Ah yes: distraction. These seven episode of "The Good Fight" illustrate the two tiers of the justice system as it truly exists. Memo 618 is a fictional device made to helpfully explain why men like Epstein and Weinstein and Donald Trump can shred legal norms and do as they please without consequence.

It's much handier for dramatic purposes to give systemic injustice a device to blame as opposed to simply showing the good guys losing over and over again for no other reason beyond the understanding that the judicial branch of government is too thoroughly corrupted for the little guy, or even the relatively well-off, to get a fair shot. And the problem is, the people who have access to power and a sizable bank account are generally fine with this arrangement.

Adrian, a man with a hush-hush invitation to run for president in his back pocket, drops in on attorney's team whirlwind to urge his people to not get caught up conspiracy theories. Law enforcement's failure to hold Epstein's accountable for his crimes, including allowing him to ignore his court-ordered 90-day check-ins like every other sexual predator must do, may simply be an example of government incompetence, he says.

Diane sees it differently. "We all have to obey the law," she says. "If we're told we have to check in with the police every 90 days, we do it. But certain people don't have to. They get special treatment."

She angrily adds, "That is America. That is not incompetence. It's a special f**king off-ramp for the well-connected."

Smartly the writers don't make Memo 618 the season's sole tension, which goes against the established case-of-the-week format; "The Good Fight" is still a CBS-branded procedural at the end of the day. Instead, the sinister Memo is a corporeal representation of the invisible forces whose knees are on our necks and the enabling structures keeping them in place. The season premiere presented itself as a lark and a diversionary ride into an alternate reality but beneath the cynical humor of Diane's twisted dreaming is an indictment of white feminism's enabling of predatory, exploitative patriarchal structures. As long as some people reap the rewards of appearing to achieve parity, that's enough.

But as the plot progresses, the fourth season demonstrates how the various levels of privilege granted to some Americans can be exploited to the detriment of all but the 1%. And this structural decay is made possible by the fact that, like so many in Epstein's inner circle, many of us choose to look the other way.

A desperate Diane asks Dincon, point-blank, what Memo 618 is. He asks her why, and she says, "Jeffrey Epstein's life was built on it."

"Then you have your answer," the U.S. Attorney replies before walking away.

Marissa observes in the finale's closing moments that in all the obsessing over what happened to Epstein, the team (and the audience by proxy) has lost perspective on what really matters in his story, the teenage girls he violated and the justice they're owed but may never receive. "We're chasing a whodunit in the middle of a tragedy," she says.

"The Good Fight" rages at this unfairness as its lights temporarily turn off, leaving its viewers much to contemplate about our part in this imbalance of society's scales. Hopefully that's what will stick with us as opposed to its diversionary tactic of a flashing a dead rapist's BUD.

All episodes of "The Good Fight" are currently streaming on CBS All Access.

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Twitter needs to harness automation to combat falsehoods – Poynter

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Twitter got some great headlines this week when it started linking President Donald Trumps tweets to fact-checks.

Twitter has finally started fact-checking Trump, said Recode. Twitters first fact-check on President Trump calls out false claims, said Ars Technica.

But Twitters effort was more symbolic than substantial. Although the company has taken some good initial steps, it needs to do a lot more at a massive scale to show it is serious about checking the avalanche of misinformation on its platform. That will also help the company use a wider array of fact-checking journalists to show its impartiality.

The misinformation problem is huge and extends far beyond Trump, whose countless falsehoods mostly go unchallenged by Twitters moderators, even when he flings unsubstantiated murder allegations at his political enemies. Thousands of other politicians and political groups tweet false claims hourly and armies of followers spread them.

This is not an issue that any tech platform can handle case-by-case. Its an internet-sized problem that demands an internet-scale solution, using technology that can be deployed as fast as falsehoods spread.

The worlds fact-checkers can help. Most now use a standard called ClaimReview that has created a database of about 54,000 fact-checks that can be accessed by Twitter (or anyone) to identify false and misleading claims. It grows by 89 new fact-checks every day.

ClaimReview isnt sexy. Its just a set of standards developed by our Duke Reporters Lab in a partnership with Google that independent fact-checkers use to identify the claim they have checked, who made it and whether it was accurate. But ClaimReview makes it easy for Google, Facebook (disclosure: both companies have provided grants for our work on automated fact-checking and ClaimReview in the Reporters Lab) and, someday soon, perhaps Twitter, to quickly match a claim with a fact-check. Thats the power of automation. And ClaimReview is available and free for anyone to use.

Automation is important because Twitter is mostly using an old-school approach humans to combat misinformation. Thats not a good long-term strategy because it wont address the thousands of false tweets that go unanswered every day. The solution needs to be scalable.

The problem isnt limited to claims that are spoken or written, which is why were developing a sibling of ClaimReview called MediaReview that fact-checkers will use when they debunk false or misleading videos or images. MediaReview, which like ClaimReview will be open to anyone, can help Twitter slow the spread of fake videos and bogus images.

Scaling up also will help Twitter rebut attacks that its being partisan. With automation, ClaimReview can be applied even-handedly to politicians from all parties.

Misinformation is big and worrisome. But Twitter has the opportunity to build on its encouraging first steps and make a substantial dent in the problem by enlisting the work of the worlds independent fact-checkers. The company should move beyond symbolic efforts and do it in a big way.

Bill Adair is the Knight Professor of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University and the director of the Duke Reporters Lab.

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Automation Robots and Advanced Technology Has Streamlined Business Processes – EnterpriseTalk

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Workers have started feeling comfortable around robots due to the ease of workflow. In the era of automation, robots at workplaces are nothing extraordinary, and more are on their way!

B2B enterprises are increasingly switching to automation and upgrading their strategic plans involving robotic applications. Nearly 76% of workers at the newly automated enterprises confirmed that advanced technology had benefited them at work. The third annual national study by MindEdge/Skye Learning, titled The Future of Work 2020: Preparing for Robot Colleagues confirmed that too. In fact, about 32% of workers say artificial intelligence (AI), robot workers, and analytics have been implemented in their workplaces past year.

IT Leaders Driving Inside-Out Digital Transformation for Businesses

Simply put, it is just the beginning of the robotic era at work, and it will continue to rise in the coming years. This phenomenon has been termed as Robomageddon. With the worldwide crisis amid the COVID-19, more businesses are aiming for an automated workflow to keep their operations up and running. According to MindEdge/Skye Learnings Director of Communications and Research, Frank Connolly, as stated to have said, Continuing to advance and upskill human knowledge through continuous learning is a key tool to reinforce employee confidence and engagement in an environment of advanced automation.

Around 1,017 U.S. workers were surveyed about the usage of robots and advanced automation in the workplace. The report also found that 69 % of employees agreed it had improved their morale. However, a majority of workers are still not sure about automation the report stated, 44 percent say that automation has already taken over part of their current job and 57 percent of all workers say that robotics and advanced automation are bad for American workers.

Jefferson Flanders, CEO of MindEdge Learning, says in the press release, Navigating the impact of robotics, automation, and AI is a pillar of modern business operations that will take time and experience for business leaders and employees to understandAmerican workers are continuing to uncover exactly how they feel about robotics and automation in the workplace. But regardless of how they may feel, technology is inexorably transforming the U.S. workforce and employers and workers need to prepare for it.

Digitalization Led IT Revolution Transforming the Global Labor Market

Clearly, with the continual trends in tech innovations, bots are now an inevitable part of our daily life they are here to stay! Most market leaders had already implemented robotic process automation (RPA) years ago to streamline their businesses functionalities. Not only in American workplaces, robotics, and advanced automation technology are the fast-growing trends in the global marketplace.

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