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Safety and the Self-Driving Revolution

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Self-driving cars are one of the most highly anticipated technologies today, but what will they do for road safety? Some Reading on Self-Driving Cars and Their Safety General statistics. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalityfacts/state-by-state-overview  Isidore, C. (2018). Self-driving cars are already really safe. Retrieved from https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/21/technology/self-driving-car-safety/  Sivak, M., & Schoettle, B. (2018). Retrieved from https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/111735/103187.pdf?sequence=1&isAl lowed=y  The road to safety: What… Read more Safety and the Self-Driving Revolution

Is Your Personal Information Truly Private?

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The use of biometrics is increasing in popularity, by both companies as well as government agencies. But what you might not know is that these technologies can be abused to violate your personal privacy. If you want to learn how, as well as how we can be protected from this, you can click this link… Read more Is Your Personal Information Truly Private?

The Ethical Dilemmas of AI in Robotics

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With the rise in machine learning and artificial intelligence, the robotics industry is starting to implement more complex and intelligent robots.  Not only will this progress in AI and robotics help to benefit the world, but it will also lead to potential ethical concerns.  What type of safety issues do these robots pose?  Should intelligent… Read more The Ethical Dilemmas of AI in Robotics

Looking Down the Barrel of Technological Challenges

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Connor Burri, Patrick O’Mullan, Matthew Spofford, Alex Young   While we develop new and innovative technologies, society is continuing to evolve faster than ever before.  Technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, and Big Data, are going to affect our future in extreme ways. By looking to historical examples of time periods when technology was rapidly… Read more Looking Down the Barrel of Technological Challenges

Envisioning the Future Based on the History of Computing

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By Emma Bailey, Joshua O’Grady, Andrew Panneton, and Matt Stevens (AKA EGMOSAM) *All authors contributed equally to this work Technology is at the heart of modern society, especially in the form of AI, machine learning, and big data. This is an ever-growing field and becomes even more important to humans’ lives with every new technology… Read more Envisioning the Future Based on the History of Computing

AEEC Article Nomination

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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