The advanced aerospace threat identification program (AATIP) was a secret program run by the US Department of Defense from 2007 to 2012. A little under five years after its existence was made public, over 1,500 pages of UFO-related reports were declassified after British tabloid The Sun filed a Freedom of Information Act request for all documents related to the AATIP. The documents reveal multiple alleged biological effects sustained by people who have allegedly come into contact with UFOs; these include brain damage, heart palpitations, and “unaccounted for pregnancy”. Read full article here
Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
