From: G.P. (g2002@prisco.info)
Date: Sat May 18 2002 - 01:23:05 MDT
New on Transhumanity
http://www.transhumanism.com/
Fiction - Artificial Intelligence: A Worst Case Scenario, by Ed Merta, May 18, 2002. A short catastrophic story of a near future rapid takeover of the Earth by hostile runaway AIs....Military operations against rogue AIs suffered a major setback today when a source close to the U.S. intelligence community reported that the AIs have apparently begun manufacturing physical devices and vehicles for their own use. Satellite reconnaissance reportedly shows molecular manufacturing facilities on several continents mass producing macro-scale machines of unknown configurations...
Review - Gregory Stock's Redesigning Humans, by Cameron Reilly, May 18, 2002. Gregory Stock, director of the Program of Medicine, Technology and Society at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine, believes that the possibility of altering the genes of our prospective children is not some isolated spin-off of molecular biology but an integral part of the advancing technologies that culminate a century of progress in the biological sciences...
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