America is a country founded on “rights” e.g., the right to free speech, the right to bear arms etc. It was important for this “new” country to explicitly define these rights when it broke with its colonial past; most of the rights that were/are held in British law are maintained implicitly based largely on “tradition”. Being a newly independent country, putting these rights down on paper was necessary; there are also many other benefits - as well as some issues – in doing so. However, this article isn’t looking to compare the costs and benefits of written (U.S.) and unwritten...
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In 2018, a married London city worker (Sanjay Naker aged 28) employed at Price Waterhouse Cooper, was jailed for eight years, after repeatedly raping and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in a 30-minute ordeal. Naker was discovered by a security guard, zipping up his trousers and standing over the woman he’d victimized, as she lay unconscious and half-naked in a pool of her own urine. He ran off and took a minicab back home to his wife and two children, where he googled the definition of “rape”. The assault was so bad that the teenager had to be hospitalized. Naker...
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I’m a fan of A.I. (Artificial Intelligence). I don’t believe that “robots” will take over the world - feel free to email me, or my robot captor/guardian in a few years, if you’ve managed to escape their regime. However, I do think it is worth taking a moment to look at what A.I. does well at from a security/safety perspective, along with what it’s not so good at, and may never be so good at; I don’t believe that it will ever be able to surpass the human evolution of “intuition”; that “system” which has been keeping us safe -...
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