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AEEC Article Nomination

The article that we are nominating is Bill Gates on dangers of artificial intelligence: ‘I don’t understand why some people are not concerned’, by Peter Holley.  This article talks about Bill Gates’ position on artificial intelligence as he ponders the idea of why humanity is not concerned with this advancement. Many topics of negative implications of AI… Read more AEEC Article Nomination

SAFTB Article Nomination

Machine Learning Advances Human-Computer Interaction by Lindsey Valich is about the differences in computer learning and human learning. Including the fact that, computers require more data points to recognize patterns. It also mentions computerized speech assistants which can detect facial expressions and speech patterns to help improve public speaking. This program can not understand the… Read more SAFTB Article Nomination

ACHSRE Article Nomination: Self-Driving Cars Will Need People, Too

This article discusses some of the issues with fully autonomous vehicles and stresses the importance of the interaction between the driver and the car. It resembles the idea of referring to technology and humans as “we” as discussed in class. Link to the article: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/self-driving-cars-will-need-people-too/

BIFSTOU Article Nomination

This article from Forbes by John Koetsier titled “Top Russian Cybernetics Experts On AI, Robot Morals, Human Extinction … And Self-Driving Cars” expands upon some of the topics that we have discussed in class. As the title suggests, this article details how a cybernetics experts feels about many of the recent developments in technology, and how… Read more BIFSTOU Article Nomination

PORMAGEI Article Choice: “10 Powerful Examples of Artificial Intelligence in Use Today”

In this Forbes article the question of what is actually AI and what AI is actually in use today. It looks at whether or not what many call AI is actually AI or not. It looks at popular companies like Apple, Amazon, and Tesla to see if AI is actually an accurate description of said… Read more PORMAGEI Article Choice: “10 Powerful Examples of Artificial Intelligence in Use Today”

EGMOSAM Article Nomination

This article from the MIT Technology Review, written by Will Knight, is about the issues that arise when discussing artificial intelligence. For example, when people create the algorithms behind automated decision making, we still can’t truly explain how these decisions are made because these computers are programming themselves. This raises the question of how well… Read more EGMOSAM Article Nomination

The Philosophy of an Atheist; Truth, Democracy, and Humanity

In severa, discussions of the production and impacts of scientific knowledge, we almost always mention democracy.  We claim that we need to make the development of scientific knowledge more democratic, we claim that a democratic system works for the spread of ideas.  Why do we claim this?  Is there any reason for saying that knowledge… Read more The Philosophy of an Atheist; Truth, Democracy, and Humanity

More on Technology, Politics, and the Cold War

Following this week conversation on the politics of science and technology. Here two additional materials about the Cybersyn Project and Chile’s Cybernetic Revolution in the early 1970s. Eden Medina’s Book: Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile   And this podcast on Cybersyn Project: 230 – Project Cybersyn – 99% Invisible