This past week, Iranian protesters were labelled “terrorists” and “saboteurs” by the state. That rhetoric was accompanied by an internet blackout and a surge in violence, with the death toll still unclear. Simultaneously, tensions between the United States and Iran escalated, raising the stakes in what has become one of the most serious political upheavals in the country in years.
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Tohid Asadi – Correspondent, Al Jazeera English
Narges Bajoghli – Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Roxane Farmanfarmaian – Lecturer, University Of Cambridge
Farzan Sabet – Managing Researcher, Global Governance Centre
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Cory Doctorow: The AI hype machine
Artificial intelligence is routinely framed as unstoppable - a technology the world must adapt to, not question. But as companies invest hundreds of billions and the hype accelerates, scrutiny has fallen away. Cory Doctorow on who controls the story around AI and why past tech “revolutions” offer a warning.
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Cory Doctorow – Author and activist
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@johanolij5686
How can the world be freed from terrorizing theocratic regimes undermining the well-being of citizens?
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@jesusk1358
Why no videos of protestors setting cops alight and shooting at cops were shown?
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@deendeen7206
Liers
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@syedanwarsaab3582
World is blind is not see what is the right what is the wrong
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@satnamo
The Europeans are not going to put up much resistance because their leaders are cowards 🐄 They will scream for awhile but in the end it is not going to matter much because Donald Trump is going to get a way with invading Greenland 🇬🇱
John Mearsheimer 🇺🇸
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@Nina_Emme
Stwierdzenia dotyczące masowych ofiar wśród protestujących w Iranie pochodzą od organizacji o nazwie „Centrum praw człowieka w Iranie”. Centrum praw człowieka w Iranie ma siedzibę w Nowym Jorku i jest finansowane przez powiązany z CIA „Narodowy Fundusz na rzecz Demokracji”. Przewodniczącą organizacji jest Minky Worden, amerykanka, która przez wiele lat prowadziła antychińskie kampanie. Próbowała doprowadzić do zmiany nazwy zimowych igrzysk olimpijskich w Pekinie na „olimpiadę ludobójstwa” i ich odwołania.
Nie udało jej się to. Wcześniej Worden ściśle współpracowała z hongkońskim ruchem „prodemokratycznym”, również finansowanym przez NED, a jej mąż, były wojskowy z Pentagonu, był członkiem zarządu hongkońskiej gazety Apple Daily i otrzymywał przelewy od struktur hongkońskiego oligarchy Jimmy'ego Lai.
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@gundisalvusamarante3006
El problema es la AI es que se manipule por las grandes corporaciones dando Bias a las respuestas.
@wilmaflintstone9369
meanwhile trump frames protesters against ice as "terrorists" and kills them. hey iranians, sounds familiar ?
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@happyphahlamohlaka8716
What an irony, they manufacture a crisis through sanctions and blockades, then later claim to come and help the same people who affected by their policies and actions
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@kiefermomcm-c3856
Praying for the people of Iran. May their sufferings come to an end very very soon and may they blessed with leaders, government and freedom they rightfully deserved.
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@khalidahmed6011
When a country supresses and oppress its people for doing the right thing. When a country puts people in prison for uttering words and when a country puts laws in place that protect other countries commuting genocide then you know that your country is no longer a sovereign country but a country controlled by Zionist entities. England is on the decline mainly due the the corrupt Zionist politicians who are prepared to their country for another country for money power. They control our media our education what we can think what we can say and wgat we do.
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@staffanlundberg
I doubt the writer Cory Doctorow knows much about AI or he wouldn´t make the statements in this video. By time AI and robots will be better than humans at doing ALL jobs. That´s an unevitable consequence of higher IQ in combination with better multimodality function in the robots. And that´s what´s coming. By claiming that AI is a meaningless speculation bubble he lessen the importance of taking action for democracy and humanity´s rights to it´s culture. We MUST make sure that humanity as a whole OWNS the production of AI. Otherwise by time capitalism will own us all. That´s a scary thought as AI rapidly are outdoing humans in every profession ....
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@serious382
Republic should listen to their people.. enemy tries to exploit the fracture line which are already there in system /society
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@72marshflower15
Astroturfed protests got shut down by true and actual Iranians.
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@entropicpedro
When that AI bubble pops it's gonna be probably worse that 2007...