{"id":8291,"date":"2025-08-14T12:14:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=8291"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:14:57","slug":"weaponized-intelligence-why-big-techs-ai-threatens-us-all-video-and-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/weaponized-intelligence-why-big-techs-ai-threatens-us-all-video-and-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaponized Intelligence: Why Big Tech\u2019s AI Threatens Us All &#8211; Video and Audio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">On August 12, 2025, Peace Economy Project hosted a powerful and eye-opening webinar exploring the dangers of AI in surveillance, policing, and warfare. This event brought together leading voices from journalism, technology ethics, activism, and academia to uncover how Big Tech\u2019s AI tools are being weaponized by governments and corporations \u2014 and what we can do to resist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">From media narratives that normalize militarization to the direct export of military tech into community policing, our panelists exposed the urgent need for transparency, accountability, and grassroots resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Watch the Webinar<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\ud83d\udcfa <strong>YouTube Video:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Weaponized Intelligence: Why Big Tech\u2019s AI Threatens Us All\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ySc1PopW8OM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Speakers<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Norman Solomon<\/strong> \u2013 Media &amp; Militarism: Connecting defense propaganda to the tech war economy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Jack Poulson<\/strong> \u2013 Tech Inquiry: Exposing Big Tech\u2019s contracts with military and intelligence agencies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Amber Rahman<\/strong> \u2013 Surveillance justice: Linking U.S. \u201cgunshot detection\u201d systems to military tech in Palestine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Esra\u2019a Al Shafei<\/strong> \u2013 Civil liberties under threat: Mapping the global surveillance industry and grassroots resistance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Ruha Benjamin<\/strong> \u2013 Framing reflection: The moral imagination required to challenge techno-authoritarianism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Grassroots action, transparency advocacy, and policy reform are essential to counter this trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">AI militarization is not a distant threat \u2014 it\u2019s already shaping policing, surveillance, and warfare globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Media and political narratives often serve to normalize and justify technological militarization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 12, 2025, Peace Economy Project hosted a powerful and eye-opening webinar exploring the dangers of AI in surveillance, policing, and warfare. 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