Report & Op-Ed | Ramola D | January 5, 2023
Nextgov and the US Department of State report that Secretary of State Blinken has set up a new office and special envoy to focus on critical and emerging technologies in their aspect of influence on US foreign policy and diplomacy.
A January 3 Media Note from the US State Department confides that “Secretary Blinken established the office as part of the wider modernization agenda because the constellation of critical and emerging technologies reshaping the world is now an integral part of the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy. The competition to develop and deploy foundational technologies is intensifying. The Office of the Special Envoy will bring additional technology policy expertise, diplomatic leadership, and strategic direction to the Department’s approach to critical and emerging technologies.”
Defining foreign policy and “tech diplomacy” in the arena of new technologies aiming to become “foundational” to a new era in national security seeking reliance on such technologies as Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, and presumably, Nanotechnology, Neurotechnology, and Synthetic Biology, CRISPr Editing, et al is discreetly mentioned.
“As the Department works to strengthen tech diplomacy across the organization, the office will provide a center of expertise and energy to develop and coordinate critical and emerging technology foreign policy, and to engage foreign partners on emerging technologies that will transform our societies, economies, and security—including biotechnology, advanced computing, artificial intelligence, and quantum information technologies.”
Human Rights Considerations Need to Be Front and Center in Development and Promotion of New Technologies
A vast and impactful subject needing immediate public debate, discussion, and disclosure on all fronts, including the much-needed insights of experts and ethicists from the humanities and the liberal arts, human rights attorneys and advocates, activists and journalists, as well as all citizens–whose lives are daily being reshaped, wittingly or unwittingly, by the cruise-control rollout of new technologies by governments the world over–it is to be hoped the requisite steps are taken by Dr. Seth Center, the Deputy Envoy commissioned to build out the office to include this component of close analysis, examination, and inclusion of a diversity of viewpoints, particularly the human rights one, going forward.
Too much in the realm of technology advancement has been left to the ultimately inadequate devices of scientists in laboratories and academe, propelled by military and intelligence divisions whose aims and instrumentalities often do not match the interests of organically-evolving humanity.
Cybernetic or Cyber Torture is Fallout from Development of Emerging Neuro/Cyber/AI Technologies
Examples abound, including from the current and ongoing COVID-19 vaccine debacle, and from the little-known yet UN-publicized disclosure of “Cybertorture”–the remote-access torture (under cover of surveillance and putatively classified experimentation) of people worldwide using neurotechnologies, AI, nanotechnology, cybernetics and man-machine intelligence, executed non-consensually and involving the participation of thousands of AI and neuro/nanotechnology researchers, discussed here by former UN Special Rapporteur for Torture, Nils Melzer: Magnus Olsson, EUCACH Director: UN Starts Investigation to Ban Cyber Torture.
“Public Safety” and “Mental Health” Used Wrongfully to Remove God-Given Rights and Freedoms
While the technologies of much vaunted yet unproven “transhumanism” have been summarily denounced by numerous scientists, activists, and journalists in truth media, including here by Dr. Salinas Flores, few know that Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience/Neurotechnology development over the years has been non-consensual, involves a profoundly unethical subjugation of select citizens, dismissed in mainstream media as “targeted individuals” and, concomitantly, mentally unstable, supposedly endowed with a “behavioral health disorder” or “psychiatric disorder” while Emergency Room, Emergency Medical Services, Law Enforcement, Behavioral Health Staff are persuaded (and wrongfully promote that) such non-consenting “human test subjects” are emotionally disturbed, mentally unstable, potentially violent, self-harming, delusional patients to whom “Public Safety” and “Community Health Monitoring” protocols are being applied for their own good.
The Internet of Things and Internet of Bodies are very dark control mechanisms sold to people as Innovative and Progressive:
Some psychiatrists and psychologists have spoken out on this travesty–which causes grave harm to all.
Neuroscientists and neurobiologists in academe have been persuaded by military funding in the millions as have psychiatrists propelled newly into “Neuropsychiatry” to view invasive neurotechnology as benevolent and the “new way” forward into abrasive, controlling brain modification concealed as “improving behavioral disorders” as these articles show:
The “New Way” May Just Be the Old Way Dressed up in Techno Gear
Opportunity is rife therefore for the misuse and abuse of new and emerging technologies, and it becomes necessary for every literate human on the planet currently to understand more clearly what is meant by “advancements in technology” and how the blanket acceptance of all new technology as benign is misplaced.
Of equal concern is the misplaced role of psychiatry which is being used in medieval wise by the very entrenched agencies and divisions to “commit” into unlawful medical “care” all those the uber-censorious banker, spy, and military crowd deem “candidates for neurobio behavior modification.”
Faced with such a plethora of Techno Control Mechanisms, it is to be hoped that the first time this new Office of the Special Envoy is deployed, it runs a thorough clean-up first of all the hugely deleterious and conscienceless practices all “development of emerging technologies” has, it appears, been predicated upon.
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