The Post-Partisan Emporium

An Unholy Invasion – Chatbots Are Colonizing Our Minds Legacy humans must erect cultural barriers now, before we’re overwhelmed Joe Allen z1b © 123rf.com | (neural network generated art) Chatbots are at the front lines of an unrelenting AI invasion. The steady increase of artificial minds in our collective psyche is akin to mass immigration—barely noticed and easily overlooked, until it’s too late. Our cultural landscape is being colonized by bots, and as with illegal aliens, much of our population welcomes this as “progress.” The bots will keep us company. They will learn and absorb our personalities. And when we die, they will become our digital ghosts. It’s a morbid prospect, but the process is already underway. E-learning institutions regularly deploy AI teachers. Chatbot companions are seducing lonesome souls by the millions, including  religious chatbots  who function as spiritual guides. At the end of the road, various start-ups are developing cyber-shrines where famili...

Uche Nwaneri: Former NFL player, COVID-19 vaccine advocate dies suddenly at 38 A former Jacksonville Jaguars player, Uche Nwaneri, who advocated jailing those who refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine, has died suddenly, aged 38. Nwaneri died of acute heart failure on Friday, December 30, 2022. The Atlanta, Georgia-based businessman was said to be at his wife’s home in West Lafayette, Indianapolis, United States, when he suddenly collapsed. She found him unresponsive in a bedroom in her home and dialed emergency services. Emergency responders confirmed him dead at the scene. An autopsy conducted on the deceased showed no sign of foul play, according to local reports. Nwaneri played 104 games for the Jags as an offensive lineman in his seven years from 2007 until 2013. He joined the Dallas Cowboys in June 2014 but was cut two months later. In the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, Nwaneri advocated the COVID-19 mandate and argued in favour of jailing those who refused the shot. sourc...