Established just after World War II, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of December 1948 risks collapse due to artificial intelligence (AI).
Inputs that matter: Between now and 2030, the AI market is expected to grow five-fold, from $250B annually to $1.8T by 2030.
- According to a study conducted at Carnegie Mellon, the power required to generate just 9 AI images is enough to charge a smartphone completely.
- ChatGPT alone uses half a million kilowatt-hours per day.
- "I think we still don't appreciate the energy needs of this technology," Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said at a public appearance in Davos.
The opportunity: In the U.S., the line between tech companies and defense contractors is increasingly blurred.
- Google and Amazon have partnered with the Israeli military to provide AI services.
- U.S. venture capital investment in defense start-ups has doubled in four years.
- Reuters reports that a U.S. intelligence agency has contracted Musk's SpaceX to develop a network of spy satellites in a deal worth $1.8 billion.
- AI is already detecting human targets for elimination on the battlefield, thanks to a joint project between Google, Amazon, and the Israeli Defense Force.
- Ukrainian military leaders can track Russian soldier movements using Google technology.
Zoom in: A study recently published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist journal claims that a combination of facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology can accurately assess a person's political orientation by looking at their blank, expressionless faces.
- Researchers write that the algorithm can accurately determine a person's political orientation, even when that person's identity is "decorrelated with age, gender, and ethnicity."
- The "algorithm's predictive accuracy was even higher" when it had access to "participants' age, gender, and ethnicity," describes the study.
Between the lines: Amnesty International said Wednesday that the order was on the "brink of collapse," threatened by bitter conflict on multiple fronts to the rapid and unregulated rise of artificial intelligence.
- "In an increasingly precarious world, unregulated proliferation and deployment of technologies such as generative AI, facial recognition and spyware are poised to be a pernicious foe –- scaling up and supercharging violations of international law and human rights to exceptional levels," Amnesty's secretary general Agnes Callamard told AFP.
- Europe, for example, was criticized by Amnesty International for using the "iBorder Control" software, which acts like a lie detector during border checks.
- France, hosting the 2024 Olympics, has become the first country in the European Union to legalize the use of artificial intelligence for surveillance purposes.
Follow the money: AI has become the new superweapon for global power as the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K., the U.S. and unofficially the E.U.) looks to control BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the U.A.E) access to the technology.
- The U.S. government has called on allies to force computer chip companies to stop maintaining some of the tools they have sold in China, part of Washington's efforts to undermine China's ability to produce its advanced computer chips.
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- https://www.yahoo.com/news/post-wwii-order-brink-collapse-000819951.html
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/24/post-1948-order-at-risk-of-decimation-amid-war-in-gaza-ukraine-amnesty
- https://international.la-croix.com/ethics/artificial-intelligence-fuels-global-tensions-threatens-fundamental-rights-warns-amnesty
- https://www.energyandcapital.com/ai-will-double-global-power-demand/
- https://gizmodo.com/ai-can-tell-your-political-affiliation-just-by-looking-1851430714
- https://aiindex.stanford.edu/report/
- https://banananomics.co/nuclear_fusion_and_the_ai%20_energy_crunch
- https://banananomics.co/big_techs_mammoth_profit_from_geopolitics