This Essay contends that data infrastructure, when implemented on a national scale, can transform the way we conceptualize artificial intelligence (AI) governance. AI governance is often viewed as necessary for a wide range of strategic goals, including national security. It is widely understood that allowing AI and generative AI to remain self-regulated by the U.S. AI industry poses significant national security risks. Data infrastructure and AI oversight can assist in multiple goals, including: maintaining data privacy and data integrity; increasing cybersecurity; and guarding against information warfare threats. This Essay concludes that conceptualizing data infrastructure as a form of critical infrastructure can reinforce domestic national security strategies. With the growing threat of AI weaponry and information warfare, data privacy and information security are core to cyber defense and national security. Data infrastructure can be seen as an integrated critical infrastructure strategy in constructing AI governance legally and technically.
When it’s not helping Russia to invade Ukraine, apparently SpaceX has deployed Starlink terminals to serve as the unregulated communications backbone for massive human rights violations.
…take Sudan, where a year-long civil war has led to accusations of genocide, crimes against humanity and millions of people fleeing their homes. With the regular internet down for months, soldiers of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are among those using the system for their logistics, according to Western diplomats.
“It is deeply concerning because it’s unregulated and headed by a private company,” Emma Shortis, a senior researcher in international and security affairs at the Australia Institute, an independent think tank in Canberra, said of the Starlink system. “There’s no accountability on who has access to it and how it’s being used.”
Elon Musk, when pushed to comment about his company SpaceX allegedly giving Russia passive war support, decided to appear on their state media channels to spread disinformation and demand that Ukraine surrender.
Initial reports suggest a Tesla failed to avoid crashing on a highway around 5pm.
A Ford sedan, Ford ute and Tesla were involved in a crash near the intersection of Riddoch Hwy and Three Mile Ln in Penola, north of Mount Gambier. The 62-year-old male sedan driver and his 54-year-old female passenger, both from Suttontown, died at the scene.
Tesla software is notorious for failing to navigate bends on a rural two lane highway (e.g. California, California again and Pennsylvania). Notably this latest crash had complex road markings.Source: Google Maps
The quest to punish immigrants seems to be coming from a known illegal immigrant.
…a man who may well be the most prolific liar in the history of American business… what this entry in the ongoing Proof series analyzing Elon Musk’s years as an illegal immigrant aims to do is tease out some of the worst lies Musk appears to have told Vance. Most of these apparent lies have one thing in common: they obscure Mr. Musk’s immigration status during a decade-long period in his life: from 1988 to 1997.
Musk’s maternal grandfather named Joshua Haldeman was an antisemitic politician who promoted authoritarianism (e.g. Nazism) and was jailed in WWII for being a threat to democracy. In 1950, having lost his struggle in WWII, he emigrated to South Africa to become a prominent racist politician who promoted apartheid.
During World War II, the Canadian government banned the group, declaring it a risk to national security. Haldeman’s involvement with Technocracy continued, though, and he was arrested and convicted of three charges relating to it. Once he got to South Africa, he added Black Africans to his list of rhetorical targets.
Musk was born in 1971 to parents in South Africa who generated wealth through racism. When apartheid ended in 1988 the family shipped him back to Canada claiming rights from his grandfather’s treasonous citizenship.
After the U.S. Congress passed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act in 1986, many large multinational companies withdrew from South Africa. By the late 1980s, the South African economy was struggling with the effects of the internal and external boycotts as well as the burden of its military commitment in occupying Namibia.
Defenders of the Apartheid regime, both inside and outside South Africa, had promoted it [like Nazi Germany] as a bulwark against communism. However, the end of the Cold War rendered this argument obsolete. South Africa had illegally occupied neighboring Namibia at the end of World War II, and since the mid-1970s, Pretoria had used it as a base [killing 500,000 people in 20 years to destabilize and prevent Black nationalism]. …
When South Africa reached a multilateral agreement in 1988 to end its illegal occupation of Namibia in return for a Cuban withdrawal from Angola, even the most ardent anti-communists in the United States lost their justification for support of the Apartheid regime.
This is why Musk fled his home country, fearing the end of apartheid, and he entered Canada. A loophole was used to migrate as an alien into the US, where he stayed illegally. He then infamously peddled lies in technology to amass huge shares of stock, which further generated massive wealth for him based on… lies.
Musk has since used his ill-gotten wealth to become an anti-American agitator who claims to be speaking about “Mars” while he spreads his grandfather’s failed proto-Nazi, eugenicist, pro-apartheid, antisemitic, racist, authoritarian political platform.
Technocracy is nothing more than a form of discredited techno-hype-filled authoritarianism of the early 1930s, fascism in other words, and yet Musk continuously and widely tries to promote fascism as “Martian Technocracy”.
…Musk’s grandfather was member number 10450-1) and sometimes added Xs to their names. Followers donned identical gray clothing and cars and greeted each other with special salutes…
As if putting swastikas up everywhere and being racist and antisemitic are somehow better if you claim it’s for purposes of trying to achieve a white ethnostate on Mars ruled by one man.
