Few knew that British intelligence set out systematically to destroy secular Arab nationalism and in the 1980s recruited and trained young Muslims as part of a $4bn Anglo-American-backed jihad against the Soviet Union.
Several astrobiologists consider what life requires and which planets and moons might have the right mix: neuroscientist Anil Seth considers the "alien" intelligence of the octopus here on Earth; cosmologist Martin Rees speculates on the possibility of humans merging with machine intelligence and setting out to explore the universe as a new cyborg species.
The Hindu newspaper has published an Indian intelligence dossier setting out the case that Pakistani militants carried out the November attacks in Mumbai that killed more than 170 people.
The European Union's executive body, the EC, has taken a first pass at drawing up a strategy to respond to the myriad socio-economic challenges around artificial intelligence technology — including setting out steps intended to boost investment, support education and training, and draw up an ethical and legal framework for steering AI developments by the end of the year.
The European Union's executive body, the EC, has taken a first pass at drawing up a strategy to respond to the myriad socio-economic challenges around artificial intelligence technology — including setting out steps intended to boost investment, support education and training, and draw up an ethical and legal framework for steering AI developments by the end of the year.
In hitherto secret evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Major General Michael Laurie said: "We knew at the time that the purpose of the dossier was precisely to make a case for war, rather than setting out the available intelligence, and that to make the best out of sparse and inconclusive intelligence the wording was developed with care".
He added: "We knew at the time that the purpose of the dossier was precisely to make a case for war rather than setting out the available intelligence".
Traveller of the Century doesn't merely respect the reader's intelligence: it sets out to worship it.
"Intelligence officers set out to get information that the other government is not willing to make available.
In the "best" storyline, the protagonist abandons a city in the hands of a corrupt artificial intelligence and sets out with others to create a more equitable society.
