surveillance – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:24:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 KPMG Survey: 68% Of Execs Plan To Funnel Up To $250 Million Into AI In The Next Year https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/kpmg-survey-68-of-execs-plan-to-funnel-up-to-250-million-into-ai-in-the-next-year https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/kpmg-survey-68-of-execs-plan-to-funnel-up-to-250-million-into-ai-in-the-next-year#respond Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:24:29 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/kpmg-survey-68-of-execs-plan-to-funnel-up-to-250-million-into-ai-in-the-next-year

In today’s AI news, a majority of senior executives across multiple industries expect AI to fundamentally reshape their businesses in the next 12 to 24 months, according to KPMG’s latest AI Quarterly Pulse Survey. According to the survey, 68% of executives plan to invest between $50M and $250M into GenAI over the next 12 months, marking a substantial increase from 45% in Q1 of 2024.

S chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, the biggest takeaway from DeepSeek In other advancements, hot healthcare startup Rad AI has raised a Series C funding round. The company, which creates AI-powered tools for radiologists, grabbed $60 million dollars of fresh funding in a Series C round led by Transformation Capital, according to two sources, the new fundraise valued Rad AI at $525 million.

Meanwhile, Alphabet’s Google, already facing an unprecedented regulatory onslaught, is looking to shape public perception and policies on artificial intelligence ahead of a global wave of AI regulation. A key priority comes in building out educational programs to train the workforce on AI. “Getting more people and organizations, including governments, familiar with AI and using AI tools, makes for better AI policy and opens up new opportunities.”

T be fixated on the best big model … + Then, join renowned investor Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates, for an engaging fireside chat with Merantix Capital Co-Founder, Rasmus Rothe exploring the enormous potential of artificial intelligence in decision-making, innovation, and global investing.

And, artificial general intelligence could possess the versatility to reason, learn and innovate in any task. But with rising concerns about job losses, surveillance and deepfakes, will AGI be a force for progress or a threat to the very fabric of humanity?

]]>
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/kpmg-survey-68-of-execs-plan-to-funnel-up-to-250-million-into-ai-in-the-next-year/feed 0
SINGULARITY Approaches, Grok 3, o1 Model Leaks, Nvdia Stuns, New Humanoids https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/singularity-approaches-grok-3-o1-model-leaks-nvdia-stuns-new-humanoids https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/singularity-approaches-grok-3-o1-model-leaks-nvdia-stuns-new-humanoids#respond Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:27:16 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/singularity-approaches-grok-3-o1-model-leaks-nvdia-stuns-new-humanoids

00:00 — AI News Overview.
00:20 — Grok 3 Announcement.
01:05 — ChatGPT vs Others.
02:15 — Grok Diagnoses Injury.
06:03 — AI in Healthcare.
06:19 — AI Surveillance Debate.
09:17 — China’s Social Credit.
09:46 — VO2 Video Models.
10:28 — AGI’s $15 Quadrillion Value.
12:13 — Meta’s AI Users.
14:49 — Yann LeCun on AI
16:39 — Clone Robotics Update.
18:14 — NVIDIA Cosmos Explained.
21:06 — NVIDIA Road Simulation.
24:20 — Sam Altman on Singularity.
27:08 — Model Parameter Sizes.
28:21 — Gen X World Explorer.
30:30 — AI Video Realism.

Join my AI Academy — https://www.skool.com/postagiprepardness.
🐤 Follow Me on Twitter https://twitter.com/TheAiGrid.
🌐 Checkout My website — https://theaigrid.com/

Links From Todays Video:

Welcome to my channel where i bring you the latest breakthroughs in AI. From deep learning to robotics, i cover it all. My videos offer valuable insights and perspectives that will expand your knowledge and understanding of this rapidly evolving field. Be sure to subscribe and stay updated on my latest videos.

]]>
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/singularity-approaches-grok-3-o1-model-leaks-nvdia-stuns-new-humanoids/feed 0
Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, MD — Founding Director, BU Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEID) https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/dr-nahid-bhadelia-md-founding-director-bu-center-on-emerging-infectious-diseases-ceid https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/dr-nahid-bhadelia-md-founding-director-bu-center-on-emerging-infectious-diseases-ceid#respond Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:24:49 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/dr-nahid-bhadelia-md-founding-director-bu-center-on-emerging-infectious-diseases-ceid

Improving Global Resilience Against Emerging Infectious Threats — Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, MD — Founding Director, Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEID), Boston University.


Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MALD is a board-certified infectious diseases physician who is the Founding Director of BU Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases (https://www.bu.edu/ceid/about-the-cen…) as well an Associate Professor at the BU School of Medicine. She served the Senior Policy Advisor for Global COVID-19 Response for the White House COVID-19 Response Team in 2022–2023, where she coordinated the interagency programs for global COVID-19 vaccine donations from the United States and was the policy lead for Project NextGen, $5B HHS program aimed at developing next generation vaccines and treatments for pandemic prone coronaviruses. She also served as the interim Testing Coordinator for the White House MPOX Response Team. She is the Director and co-founder of Biothreats Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network (BEACON), an open source outbreak surveillance program.

Between 2011–2021, Dr. Bhadelia helped develop and then served as the medical director of the Special Pathogens Unit (SPU) at Boston Medical Center, a medical unit designed to care for patients with highly communicable diseases, and a state designated Ebola Treatment Center. She was previously an associate director for BU’s maximum containment research program, the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories. She has provided direct patient care and been part of outbreak response and medical countermeasures research during multiple Ebola virus disease outbreaks in West and East Africa between 2014–2019. She was the clinical lead for a DoD-funded viral hemorrhagic fever clinical research unit in Uganda, entitled Joint Mobile Emerging Disease Intervention Clinical Capability (JMEDICC) program between 2017 and 2022. Currently, she is a co-director of Fogarty funded, BU-University of Liberia Emerging and Epidemic Viruses Research training program. She was a member of the World Health Organization(WHO)’s Technical Advisory Group on Universal Health and Preparedness Review (UHPR). She currently serves as a member of the National Academies Forum on Microbial Threats and previously served as the chair of the National Academies Workshop Committee for Potential Research Priorities to Inform Readiness and Response to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) and member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Current State of Research, Development, and Stockpiling of Smallpox Medical Countermeasures.

]]>
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/dr-nahid-bhadelia-md-founding-director-bu-center-on-emerging-infectious-diseases-ceid/feed 0
Big brother: the effects of surveillance on fundamental aspects of social vision https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/big-brother-the-effects-of-surveillance-on-fundamental-aspects-of-social-vision https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/big-brother-the-effects-of-surveillance-on-fundamental-aspects-of-social-vision#respond Fri, 27 Dec 2024 18:26:26 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/big-brother-the-effects-of-surveillance-on-fundamental-aspects-of-social-vision

In a paper published in the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness psychology researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked with 54 participants to examine the effects of surveillance on an essential function of human sensory perception – the ability to detect another person’s gaze.

Lead author, Associate Professor of neuroscience and behaviour Kiley Seymour, said previous research has established the effects on conscious behaviour when people know they are being watched, but the new study provided the first direct evidence that being watched also has an involuntary response.

“We know CCTV changes our behaviour, and that’s the main driver for retailers and others wanting to deploy such technology to prevent unwanted behaviour,” Associate Professor Seymour said.

However, we show it’s not only overt behaviour that changes – our brain changes the way it processes information.

We found direct evidence that being conspicuously monitored via CCTV markedly impacts a hardwired and involuntary function of human sensory perception – the ability to consciously detect a face.

]]>
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/big-brother-the-effects-of-surveillance-on-fundamental-aspects-of-social-vision/feed 0
Cockroaches turned into cyborgs in 68 secs with new automated machine https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/cockroaches-turned-into-cyborgs-in-68-secs-with-new-automated-machine https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/cockroaches-turned-into-cyborgs-in-68-secs-with-new-automated-machine#respond Sun, 15 Dec 2024 16:23:54 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/cockroaches-turned-into-cyborgs-in-68-secs-with-new-automated-machine

Researchers can mass-produce these cyborg cockroaches for disaster relief, surveillance, and environmental monitoring.


Researchers from Singapore have developed a new machine to automatically turn cockroaches into cyborgs in 68 seconds flat.

]]>
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/cockroaches-turned-into-cyborgs-in-68-secs-with-new-automated-machine/feed 0
Scientists develop coating for enhanced thermal imaging through hot windows https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/scientists-develop-coating-for-enhanced-thermal-imaging-through-hot-windows https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/scientists-develop-coating-for-enhanced-thermal-imaging-through-hot-windows#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:30:33 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/scientists-develop-coating-for-enhanced-thermal-imaging-through-hot-windows

A team of Rice University scientists has solved a long-standing problem in thermal imaging, making it possible to capture clear images of objects through hot windows. Imaging applications in a range of fields—such as security, surveillance, industrial research and diagnostics—could benefit from the research findings, which were reported in the journal Communications Engineering.

“Say you want to use to monitor in a high-temperature reactor chamber,” said Gururaj Naik, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice and corresponding author on the study. “The problem you’d be facing is that the thermal radiation emitted by the window itself overwhelms the camera, obscuring the view of objects on the other side.”

A possible solution could involve coating the window in a material that suppresses thermal light emission toward the camera, but this would also render the window opaque. To get around this issue, the researchers developed a coating that relies on an engineered asymmetry to filter out the thermal noise of a hot window, doubling the contrast of thermal imaging compared to conventional methods.

]]>
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/scientists-develop-coating-for-enhanced-thermal-imaging-through-hot-windows/feed 0
This Company Wants to Help Your Boss Monitor Your Brainwaves at Work https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/this-company-wants-to-help-your-boss-monitor-your-brainwaves-at-work https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/this-company-wants-to-help-your-boss-monitor-your-brainwaves-at-work#respond Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:33:18 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/this-company-wants-to-help-your-boss-monitor-your-brainwaves-at-work

Critics doubt that Emotiv’s earphone-style sensors can reliably track things like stress and attention—and some worry the technology will become yet another form of workplace surveillance.

]]>
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/this-company-wants-to-help-your-boss-monitor-your-brainwaves-at-work/feed 0
Laser, microwave, and other directed-energy weapons ready for the battlefield https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/laser-microwave-and-other-directed-energy-weapons-ready-for-the-battlefield https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/laser-microwave-and-other-directed-energy-weapons-ready-for-the-battlefield#respond Sat, 09 Nov 2024 11:01:07 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/laser-microwave-and-other-directed-energy-weapons-ready-for-the-battlefield

Perhaps no technology has shaped the 21st-century battlefield as profoundly as the drone. These uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), along with their land and sea counterparts, have redefined the way wars are fought by providing military forces with unprecedented capabilities in surveillance, precision targeting, and intelligence gathering — all while reducing the risk to their own personnel. Drones have made complex operations more efficient and less costly, enabling militaries to strike with pinpoint accuracy and maintain a persistent presence over the battlefield.

As the century progresses, the influence of drones continues to expand beyond traditional state actors. Non-state groups and non-peer adversaries increasingly have adopted this technology, leveraging it to level the playing field in conflicts around the world. With commercial drones becoming more accessible, these actors can conduct reconnaissance, drop bombs, and challenge conventional military forces in ways that previously were unimaginable.

The influence of drones flows across all domains of warfare. Loitering munitions, or “Kamikaze drones,” have disrupted traditional force structures by providing smaller, more agile units with the ability to strike high-value targets such as tanks, artillery, and command centers.

]]>
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/laser-microwave-and-other-directed-energy-weapons-ready-for-the-battlefield/feed 0
Billionaire Drools That “Citizens Will Be on Their Best Behavior” Under Constant AI Surveillance https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/billionaire-drools-that-citizens-will-be-on-their-best-behavior-under-constant-ai-surveillance https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/billionaire-drools-that-citizens-will-be-on-their-best-behavior-under-constant-ai-surveillance#respond Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:23:16 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/billionaire-drools-that-citizens-will-be-on-their-best-behavior-under-constant-ai-surveillance

If it were up to Larry Ellison, the exorbitantly rich cofounder of software outfit Oracle, all of us will soon be smiling for the camera — constantly. Not for a cheery photograph, but to appease our super-invasive, if not totally omnipresent, algorithmic overseers.

As Business Insider reports, the tech centibillionaire glibly predicts that the wonders of AI will bring about a new paradigm of supercharged surveillance, guaranteeing that the proles — excuse us, “citizens” — all behave and stay in line.

“We’re going to have supervision,” Ellison said this week at an Oracle financial analysts meeting, per BI. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person.”

]]>
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/billionaire-drools-that-citizens-will-be-on-their-best-behavior-under-constant-ai-surveillance/feed 0
Surveillance in the Digital Age: Is Privacy Going Extinct? https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/surveillance-in-the-digital-age-is-privacy-going-extinct https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/surveillance-in-the-digital-age-is-privacy-going-extinct#comments Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:32:10 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/surveillance-in-the-digital-age-is-privacy-going-extinct

Those that have nothing to hide have nothing to fear. From an episode of the early outer limits OBIT.


Use code isaacarthur at the link below to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan: https://incogni.com/isaacarthur.
Technology brings us many wonders, but it may also bring about the end of our privacy. What, if anything, can we do to protect it?

Join this channel to get access to perks:

]]>
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/surveillance-in-the-digital-age-is-privacy-going-extinct/feed 1