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The Daily Ruckus (03/25/2025)
[COMMENTARY/OPINION | NEWS UPDATE]
Please allow me to be the very first to welcome you to tomorrow’s technocracy – we traipsed right in, and the trap’s already sprung…
Sources:
‘Humans need not apply’: Are AI agents already taking our jobs?
“Please apply only if you are an AI agent” …
Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low
Warning Issued on ‘Population Collapse’ by 2100
How to Think About Falling Birth Rates
Huge number of people admit they’d be cool with their partner hooking up with a robot
A new study measures the actual impact of robots on jobs. It’s significant.
World to host 3 billion humanoid robots by 2060, Bank of America estimates
The next wave of AI is here: Autonomous AI agents are amazing—and scary
Microsoft’s new AI agent can control software and robots
AI Assistants Join the Factory Floor
‘Body in a box’: World’s first computer powered by human brain cells
It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning
No more hand-holding: Physicists bring AI closer to ‘unsupervised learning’
Trump’s digital dollar ban puts US behind in global currency race
Top AI Investor Says Goal Is to Crash Human Wages
Here’s what a Sam Altman-backed basic income experiment found
The UK’s Digital ID Power Play: Big Finance and Government Push Corporate IDs
Convenient or intrusive? How Poland has embraced digital ID cards
Sam Altman’s World now wants to link AI agents to your digital identity
Digital Identity and Facial Recognition Technology
AI is set to revolutionize policing: Are we ready?
Larry Ellison Pushes for AI-Powered National Data Centralization and Mass Surveillance
Big Brother Watch condemns UK’s first use of city-wide facial recognition in Cardiff
Britain’s AI Spy Machine Gears Up for the Next Wave of Censorship
China: Interactive humanoid robots take over police patrol duties in streets
Lakeland police to restart drone program after foreign surveillance concerns
CIA has Been Secretly Flying Covert Drone Missions Into Mexico to Spy on Drug Cartels: Report
Claws, motherships and shotguns are just some of the latest drone technology
Anduril’s new drones are nothing like DJI
Supplemental:
World Population Prospects 2024
Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped Over 50 Percent Since 1973, Paper Finds
Microplastics Are In Your Brain, Testicles, Placenta, Lungs, Soul
Georgia Guidestones and the Threat of Overpopulation
Georgia Guidestones monument is destroyed after explosion
Elon Musk in yet another population decline ‘warning’: ‘Many countries are disappearing…’
Japan’s birth rate fell for a ninth consecutive year in 2024 to hit a record low
Italy’s pension spending: Implications of an ageing population
China’s Population Could Shrink to Half by 2100
S.Korea’s population at risk of falling in half over next 60 years
Immigrant workers help grow the U.S. economy
ATHENA Achieves Lights-Out Production
AI in Agriculture — The Future of Farming
Samsung Has Its Own AI-Designed Chip. Soon, Others Will Too
AI in Healthcare: Enhancing Patient Care and Diagnosis
Inside Japan’s long experiment in automating elder care
AI Chatbots Break Down Barriers to Much-Needed Mental Health Treatments
For lonely seniors, AI companions can be a lifeline
What America’s top economists are saying about AI and inequality
9 Ways AI Is Being Used to Help the Environment
Humanoid Robots Finally Get Real Jobs
Bill Gates says robots should pay taxes if they take your job
Sweden is a nearly cashless society – here’s how it affects people who are left out
Eliminating the Penny? These Babson Professors Have Thoughts
15 Jobs Will AI Replace by 2030?
Human may be paid by AI in the future?
China explores cross-border uses for digital yuan in new trial
Trump downplays talk of Elon Musk’s increasing influence in Republican politics
US watchdog issues final rule to supervise Big Tech payments, digital wallets
What Is a Cashless Society and How Does It Work?
The future of identity is digital: Why Digital IDs should be implemented now
What Happens When a Billion Identities Are Digitized?
Estonia navigates future of ID cards, digital identity and digital wallets
China’s Proposed Nationwide Digital ID System Stokes Fears of Government Overreach
eIDAS 2.0: Everything you need to know
Don’t Trust When You Can Verify: A Primer on Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Labour will use AI to snoop on social media
The future of police tech: Smarter systems, faster insights, better policing
Surveillance and Predictive Policing Through AI
Artificial Intelligence in Singapore: Transforming Singapore into the World’s First Smart Nation
Is That You, RoboCop? China Police Officers Now Patrol Streets With Humanoid Robots
The cyber gulag: How Russia tracks, censors and controls its citizens
Drones and Aerial Surveillance
Are AI-Powered Traffic Cameras Watching You Drive?
This Robot Will Replace the Police
Bonus Material:
Technocracy Incorporated. The government to replace democracy
What Is the Mainstream Media Missing About Elon Musk? He Is Instituting Technocracy
Why a Technocracy Fails Young People
Audio/Video:
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Humanoid robot joins police in south China
Introducing ENGINEAI PM01 – The Ultimate Embodied Intelligent Humanoid Hardware
Extreme Off-Road | DEEPRobotics Lynx All-Terrian Robot
Flashback: Police robot dog helps end standoff on L.A. Metro bus
NYPD uses robot dog during police operation
Flashback: Police are using drones to enforce social distancing
Trump White House gives update on New Jersey drones
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