The police in Hammond refused to allow a rapper (with outstanding arrest warrants) known as Chief Keef to perform live at a local music festival. And that apparently included appearing “live” via hologram. They even pulled the plug on the digital version of the rapper.

+ “The endpoint of this technological trajectory is obvious: autonomous weapons will become the Kalashnikovs of tomorrow. The key question for humanity today is whether to start a global AI arms race or to prevent it from starting.” Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and other notable technologists wrote an open letter calling for a pre-emptive end to the AI arms race.

+ “If a thing is designed to kill you, it is, by definition, bad design.” Mike Monteiro in Dear Design Student: In Praise of the AK-47.