Open Dialogue Research Journal
Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity’s immaculate sense of destructive self. This month, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC) Mirjana Spoljaric Egger issued a joint appeal stating that, “We are now dangerously […]
Part I Discussions about singularity often generate sensational headlines, particularly when connected to population growth. Some interpretations suggest that humanity is approaching a dramatic threshold around the late 2020s. The origins of this idea can be traced to mathematical models developed in the twentieth century. Researchers observed that for long […]
In the hills of Emilia-Romagna, an industry that predates the Renaissance is quietly facing a very modern stress test. Italy’s Parmigiano Reggiano producers rely on a financing system built around vaults – literal “cheese banks” – where wheels of the cheese age for one to three years or more before […]
The world is entering a period of profound uncertainty. Political upheavals, demographic shifts, technological breakthroughs, and geopolitical realignments are converging to create a historical moment unlike any experienced before. Many of the assumptions that guided policymakers, scholars, and societies throughout the twentieth century are becoming increasingly unreliable as humanity encounters […]
AI-assisted infowars could psychologically sever the former USSR’s Turkic populations from Russia. FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov warned during a recent meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services that “The West seeks to disrupt integration processes and undermine stability in CIS […]
The growing influence of private technology companies inside the U.S. defense establishment has entered a new and potentially transformative phase. At the center of the latest dispute is Palantir Technologies, the controversial but highly influential software company led by CEO Alex Karp, which is now challenging the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence […]
They are a disagreeable bunch, with disagreeable ideas to match. The querulous brats behind the drive for technological servility and plugged in stupidity were always going to scrap over which dystopian vision they most prefer. Elon Musk thought he was onto something hounding OpenAI and its current CEO Sam Altman […]
Palantir, named after the obsidian seeing-stones from Lord of the Rings, flagship product is an operating system named Gotham, after the Batman series utilizes MOSAIC, named after the Roman Empire to conduct mass surveillance. Their contracts are all government and include Dod, Homeland Security, CIA, FBI, NSA, US Army, Marine […]
America has given the world a new elite—a handful of people who made fortunes on algorithms and now genuinely believe they are entitled to redesign the future of the entire planet. They don’t wear suits, they don’t apologize for their statements, and they recognize no boundaries—neither in science, nor in […]
The Convention on combating cybercrime has been signed, but most of the countries in the world have not yet joined it. An extremely important event has recently taken place in Vietnam . Although it is related to a specific topic, it literally affects each of us. It’s about signing the […]
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