The Decline of Debate and its Impact on Democracy
We are no longer surprised to see President Trump’s tweets in which his hostility towards his political opponents and certain ethnic groups is evident. Even tweets that hold threatening messages of war to other nations are expected or those in
LAW-less: should we ban killer robots?
The term ‘artificial intelligence’ was first coined in 1955 by Professor John McCarthy prior to the famous Dartmouth conference of 1956. The task of developing software that could mimic human behaviour was more complicated than he first imagined, and progress
From Russia with Love: A Misinformation Campaign
Facebook has announced that 126 million of their American users may have encountered 80,000 published pieces of inauthentic, Kremlin-conceived content throughout the last two years (BBC, 2017). In the photo: Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump. Photo credit: The Atlantic Accounts that can be
IMPAKTER ESSAY: The Year of the Leak
Cyber Attacks and Espionage in the Digital Age “Well that’s because [Putin] would rather have a puppet as president of the United States,” Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton fiercely told the audience at the third presidential debate in Las Vegas. “You’re the