Leading technologists and thinkers are concerned about technology’s impact on our ethical thinking. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3516516
In an interesting talk, Kurt Opsahl enumerates various commonly used surveillance practices deployed at protests and large gatherings . While this may not seem directly related to HPC,…
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-engineer-skills The typical argument is that AI will lead to mass unemployment because the tools will take over simple jobs humans have been doing. The article linked above…
Earlier this month the DOEs Office of Nuclear Energy released plans anticipating a significant increase in nuclear energy production capacity. More details at https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/us-sets-targets-triple-nuclear-energy-capacity-2050.