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Kyle Hiebert

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Winnipeg
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Covers:  Globalization, conflict, technology and African affairs
Independent analyst, news junkie, cat dad. Bylines in @CIGIOnline, @Newsweek, @TheHill, @CBCNews, @TheWalrus, @ISSAfrica, @TheBanker, @MiddleEastEye & more.

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Kyle Hiebert’s Biography

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An independent political risk analyst, contributing writer for the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), consultant for the Africa Futures initiative at the Institute for Security Studies and foreign affairs commentator for the Winnipeg Free Press. I was formerly based in Cape Town and Johannesburg as deputy editor of the Africa Conflict Monitor, a digital monthly publication analyzing the political, economic and social dimensions of conflict and terrorism across the African co…

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Canada and its military spending quagmire

Canada and its military spending quagmire

Modernizing Canada’s anemic military will involve navigating a maze of complex decisions and actions.

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AI Is Reviving Fears Around Bioterrorism. What's the Real Risk?

AI Is Reviving Fears Around Bioterrorism. What's the Real Risk?

Chatbots might help bad actors obtain - or create - novel pathogens for destructive purposes.

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What happens if Silicon Valley's AI investment bubble bursts? | Computer Weekly

What happens if Silicon Valley's AI investment bubble bursts? | Computer Weekly

America's tech giants are burning through unprecedented amounts of capital in their quest to develop artifici…

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The Promises and Perils of Predictive Policing

The Promises and Perils of Predictive Policing

The technology could reduce crime — but the risks to individual freedoms and potential for abuses are worryin…

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Trump 2.0 Will Escalate the Contest for Military AI Supremacy

Trump 2.0 Will Escalate the Contest for Military AI Supremacy

Trump has ordered America's AI industry be fully unleashed.

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Is Africa the next frontier for autonomous weapons?

Is Africa the next frontier for autonomous weapons?

The continent's foreign arms suppliers are not keen on restricting killer robots.

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Prediction Markets Corrupt Everything They Touch

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By Kyle Hiebert
| The Walrus Magazine Verified
Online prediction markets are many things. Their founders praise them as the apex of capitalist ingenuity. Others see a fountain of crowdsourced insight into financial vibes and global affairs. Critics condemn them as ethically bankrupt. The complicated truth is they’re all of these at once. And business is booming. Yet by monetizing the full gamut of reality, platforms have opened Pandora’s box. Basic tenets of liberal society—democratic integrity and respect for human life—are being corroded.
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Protests spur Ukraine military reshuffle

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By Kyle Hiebert
| Winnipeg Free Press Verified
Even nations fighting for their survival can’t escape politics. “The president should not choose sides during a war,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters earlier this month after sacking his defence minister to quell a growing rift between him and the country’s military chief. “But if the parties cannot solve the issue, then I have to solve it.” Many Ukrainians felt their leader picked the wrong side.
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Attitude by algorithm: Companies entrust AI to assess worker morale

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By Kyle Hiebert
| Computer Weekly Verified
Getting better all the time? Affective computing isn’t new – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher Rosalind Picard named the field in a landmark 1995 paper. What is new is the money. That a decades-old research area has become a multibillion-dollar industry almost overnight speaks to its potential, and to how AI has encroached into everyday life to an almost mind-numbing degree.
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