Photo by Geralt on Pixabay “My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.” Type this quote into Google and you’ll find a number of news articles and opinion pieces talking about Donald Trump’s supposed deal-making prowess and the limited examples we’ve seen of it since January 20, 2017. The quote is taken directly from Trump’s ghost-written memoir and book of advice, Th

Let’s talk intelligent, killer robots. The United Nations already is. One of the technical terminologies the UN and partner organizations are using is lethal autonomous weapons systems or LAWS. And for the time being, let’s avoid thinking about Isaac Asimov’s Three Rules because the robots we are looking at are specifically meant to be lethal weapons systems and not just assistants who will serve humans except when it harms them. Before you start thinking that this is just s