Beyond the Told

by Dr. David M Robertson

Tag: Artificial intelligence

A Case for the Humanoid Ride-Along

AN OPEN LETTER TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SECURITY FORCES I’ll open this with a simple idea: this is not a letter about technology. Instead, it is a letter about accountability, and why the institutions charged with maintaining public order are among the least accountable structures in modern civil society. However, the humanoid robot ride-along is […]

When AI Becomes Epistemic Gatekeeping

Artificial intelligence can be an amazing tool if you understand its utility, but what if it is quietly pushing you away from the very things you need to see? That possibility is likely happening far more often than most people would prefer to admit. AI was widely promoted as a corrective to human gatekeeping. By […]

How to Spot and Stop AI-Generated Frauds

Artificial intelligence can be an amazing tool and used for a lot of great things. However, there is a darker side that we should be aware of. Now, I know quite a bit about the various scams and tactics resulting in millions of dollars being stolen yearly. Well, I almost fell for a highly sophisticated […]

ChatGPT on Mass Shootings

Can ChatGPT teach us anything about mass shootings? Perhaps it can. I had an interesting conversation with ChatGPT about that very topic that I thought I might share with you. In the wake of the Nashville school shooting, where Audrey Hale had attacked a Christian academy and killed six people (including three children), some individuals […]

ChatGPT is No Health Expert

A calculator is a fantastic tool. However, it’s really sort of worthless unless you understand how to do the math in the first place. The numbers you get ultimately mean nothing unless you understand what you are either typing in or expecting to get out. This means that you need to know something about what […]