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Anons, if you had the green laser, who/what would you point it at?
Eric Schmidt
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Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American businessman and software engineer. He is currently chair of the US Department of Defense's Defense Innovation Advisory Board. He is known for being the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, executive chairman of Google from 2011 to 2015, executive chairman of Alphabet Inc.Wikipedia
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2015
'There are two kinds of commemorative days/weeks/months. There’s the nonprofit, “awareness” type, such as Black History Month or World Down Syndrome Day, intended to show solidarity for some cause. Then there’s the for-profit, commercial variety, like International Pickle Week or California Dried Plum Digestive Health Month, which are simply business marketing campaigns.
And then there’s the profit-seeking effort masquerading as cause-promotion. That’s what June’s Immigrant Heritage Month is.
Just as International Pickle Week was dreamed up by the Pickle Packers International trade association to sell more fermented cucumbers, Immigrant Heritage Month is a project that Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg dreamed up to hold down his labor costs by importing more cheap foreign labor. But at least the pickle people are up-front about their goals: They want to help their clients make more money by persuading people to buy more pickles. (More power to them — pickles are great.)
Immigrant Heritage Month is a project that Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg dreamed up to hold down his labor costs by importing more cheap foreign labor.
Zuckerberg, on the other hand, is dressing up his unpopular business objectives with a sham commemoration. It doesn’t even make much sense; one can celebrate Mexican heritage or Armenian heritage or Irish heritage. But what is “immigrant heritage”? Certainly, immigrants themselves undergo a shared experience of adapting to a new country, but what distinctive heritage do their descendants inherit from it, especially since everybody’s ancestors came from somewhere else? The campaign is a counterfeit from beginning to end.
In his initial foray into rent-seeking through immigration policy, a PAC dubbed FWD.us, Zuckerberg was more forthright about his motivations. Established in the spring of 2013, in the middle of the Senate debate over Marco Rubio’s Gang of Eight bill, the PAC said it was “mobilizing the tech community in support of policies that keep the American Dream achievable in the 21st century, starting with comprehensive immigration reform.” Amid the boilerplate, the goal was plain: Give the tech industry easier access to cheap foreign labor. The list of supporters is a who’s who of Big Tech: Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Eric Schmidt, Max Levchin, Sean Parker, Drew Houston, Mark Pinkus, John Doerr, Reid Hoffman, and so on.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/06/june-cheap-foreign-labor-month-courtesy-mark-zuckerberg-mark-krikorian/
Anons, if you had the green laser, who/what would you point it at??
'Former Google CEO and chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board Eric Schmidt said that “there’s no question” Chinese telecom giant Huawei has business practices “not acceptable in national security.”
Speaking to BBC Radio 4 for a documentary, Schmidt said that a proper understanding of Huawei should make one see the company as a means of “signals intelligence” that functions as a spy agency.
“There’s no question that Huawei has engaged in some practices that are not acceptable in national security,” he stated. “There’s no question that information from Huawei routers has ultimately ended up in hands that would appear to be the state. However that happened, we’re sure it happened.”
In May, the U.S. Department of Commerce slapped additional sanctions on Huawei to limit its ability to acquire semiconductor chips using American technology. The Department of Justice said in February that the firm has conducted a “decades-long” operation to “misappropriate intellectual property” from U.S. technology firms, while Trump administration claimed that Huawei has secretly accessed American cell phone data for over a decade.
“Let’s cut to the chase: China’s main export is espionage, and the distinction between the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese ‘private-sector’ businesses like Huawei is imaginary,” Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) said in May. “Huawei’s supply chain depends on contracts with American companies and the Commerce Department ought to take a careful look at how we can effectively disrupt our adversary.”
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In the interview, Schmidt admitted that he had held “prejudices” about China, such as the belief that tech firms in the country are “very good at stealing,” but said that these prejudices now “need to be thrown out.”
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/ex-google-ceo-schmidt-says-huawei-acts-as-signal-intelligence-for-ccp/
“There’s no question that Huawei has engaged in some practices that are not acceptable in national security,” he stated. “There’s no question that information from Huawei routers has ultimately ended up in hands that would appear to be the state. However that happened, we’re sure it happened.”
'Last week, Dennis Prager castigated Google for its refusal to renew a contract with the Department of Defense that had arranged for the sharing of artificial intelligence for the analysis of drone footage. Prager’s point, that Google is abdicating a moral responsibility to do its part in the fight against evil, hits the mark.
Now that this initiative — “Project Maven” — has been abandoned, the big question is what Google will do next. Per Gizmodo, before caving to disgruntled Google employees and academics, the company’s executives had hoped to make the program palatable to the public by downplaying its military aspect. Google aimed to secure further defense contracts down the road, reportedly to the tune of a $10 billion cloud-computing agreement. Given recent events, one can see this distancing continuing. On issues ranging from gun rights to LGBTQ rights to health care, consumers today view political and social positioning as an inherent part of corporate branding. Google’s abandonment of Maven is the latest manifestation of this trend. Evidently, the company’s leaders decided that renewing the project would be less profitable than continuing it with vocal critics in hot pursuit.
Yet something tells me that Google can’t be totally counted out when it comes to cooperation with national-defense initiatives. While Google released a set of guidelines for its AI work Thursday afternoon that ruled out collaboration with governments to develop weapons, it said that it would continue working with the military in other domains. Silicon Valley and the Pentagon already both benefit from a substantial cross-pollination of investment and research and development. In the particular case of Maven, Google’s development of the geospatial technology critical to the project benefited significantly from special authorization it received from the government for access.
And this is pretty typical. The CIA’s venture capital fund In-Q-Tel is a key investor in several firms absorbed by America’s largest technology companies — think the tech that brought us Google Maps, and capabilities currently in development such as scanners to create 3-D printed objects. Eric Schmidt, the former Alphabet chairman, heads the Defense Innovation Board, perhaps the epitome of this cooperation.
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There are structures and networks in place encouraging collaboration between government and industry. The next challenge is to harness them in a concerted way: With China, Russia, and France, among others, developing national strategies for AI, the United States lags behind. And as Vladimir Putin has put it, whoever masters artificial intelligence will “become the ruler of the world.”
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/google-artificial-intelligence-national-defense/
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