Military force or the threat thereof is increasingly shaping international relations – and technology plays a key role in this. The current TATuP Special topic examines how TA can address this development.

Read the full issue 35/1 (2026) "Technology assessment and future warfare":
➡️ https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/issue/view/186

Many thanks 🙏 to our special topic editors & to all the authors!

#technologyassessment #warfare, #dualuse @ITAS @KIT_Karlsruhe

UK House of Lords seeks ban on Swiss Army Knives that “…could be used to cut people”

“We are not against pen knives in principle”, says peer, “…but we want manufacturers to take steps to prevent them being used to cause harm.”

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-03-17/baroness-kidron-interview

https://twitter.com/opensauceAI/status/2034903083579580460?s=20

Quote:

To “create” a chatbot or model that can “encourage” crime would be an offense punishable by 5 years imprisonment under amendments voted through (203 to 148) by the UK House of Lords.

This follows recommendations from the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

The imprecision in these proposals is appalling. Chatbots and language models can be goaded into saying bad things. When they’re used by billions of people, even the most cautious developers cannot exclude that risk. Criminalizing their development based on whether they generate any proscribed content (per sec. 1) is a garish attack on fundamental research and consumer technology.

Governments can uplevel AI safety in many ways, some of which are represented in this bill. But this kind of theatrical overreach is setting back meaningful reform.

#usa #israel #iran : #atomkraft / #atomwaffen / #basiswissen / #dualuse

„Die zivile Atomkraft stellt Schlüsseltechniken und Schlüsselrohstoffe zum Bau von Atomwaffen zur Verfügung. Sie versetzt damit viele Staaten oder Organisationen in die Lage, binnen kurzer Zeit eigene Atomwaffen zu entwickeln.“

https://www.ausgestrahlt.de/themen/bombenrisiko/dank-atomkraft-zur-atombombe/