3-30-2018 numerous partnerships entangle MIT researchers with Bin Salman. On his Boston tour he also visited IBM’s Cambridge research facility, which recently partnered with MIT to form an artificial intelligence research laboratory in exchange for a $240m commitment to the university. Boston Dynamics, an MIT partner that builds robots for the US military, also offered a demonstration. Such alliances ought to cast doubt on MIT’s promise to understand the “societal and ethical” implications of AI and build socially beneficial technologies.
The terms of all of these partnerships are essentially opaque, while the secrecy that surrounds them denies the community the chance to deliberate and take action. The growth of unaccountable university partnerships, like other crises facing educational institutions, stems from the absence of democratic engagement. When universities decide to sell themselves to the highest bidder they become deaf to the interests of their students and the wider societies in which they operate. Subservience to war criminals and corporate overlords tends to follow. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/30/elite-universities-selling-themselves-mit-harvard-saudi-arabia-mohammed-bin-salman
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Amman, Apr. 12, 2017 - The Crown Prince Foundation (CPF) on Wednesday signed an agreement with the Fab Foundation, affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to establish and operate a digital manufacturing laboratory in Amman (Fab Lab Amman).
The agreement, signed between CPF’s CEO Omar Massarweh and Fab Foundation President Sherry Lassiter, provides a framework under which the Fab Foundation will provide the necessary tools to establish the lab in Amman. It also lays out a plan of operation for the next three years. The Fab Foundation was formed in 2009 to facilitate and support the growth of the international Fab Lab network, as well as the development of regional capacity-building organizations, according to its website. The foundation is a US non-profit organization that emerged from MIT’s Centre for Bits and Atoms Fab Lab Programme. https://www.cpf.jo/en/media/press-release/crown-prince-foundation-mit-establish-high-tech-lab-amman
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The sisters’ bodies were taped together and facing each other, but had no obvious signs of trauma, police said. They were both fully clothed.
Their mother told detectives the day before the bodies were discovered, she received a call from an official at the Saudi Arabian Embassy, ordering the family to leave the U.S. because her daughters had applied for political asylum, New York police said Tuesday. Tala and Rotana moved to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia with their mother in 2015, settling in Fairfax, a suburb of Washington D.C., police said. https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/10/31/rotana-farea-tala-farea-dead-new-york/
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