Is it unreasonable for us to want more from the AI-inspired — something more than, for example, a robot that can get up off the ground, and recover from being hit with a club?
Author: Katina Michael
Go “Get Chipped”
By Katina Michael on February 9th, 2018 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
The big issue is the mass scale big data collection strategies using social media intelligence, CCTV, behavioral biometrics using facial recognition and visual analytics to monitor human activities, the keystroke-level tracking of end-users by third parties on Internet websites, the use of in-bound technology devices that conduct ICT surveillance and home monitoring, and even fitness trackers we carry alongside our mobile phone that are set to control our health insurance premiums.
Go “Get Chipped”
By Katina Michael on September 18th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
In 1997 Eduardo Kac became the first human to implant himself with a non-medical device in the performance art work titled “Time Capsule”
Pros and Cons of Implantables at IEEE Sections Congress 2017
By Katina Michael on September 14th, 2017 in Videos
Katina Michael delivers an invited presentation on the topic of the “Pros and Cons of Implantables” for @IEEESSIT. The presentation… Read More
TEDxUWollongong – Microchipping people
By Katina Michael on August 22nd, 2017 in Videos
Professor Katina Michael from the University of Wollongong, speaks at the 2012 TEDxUWollongong on the moral and ethical dilemmas of… Read More
We Are Not Spiritual Machines, We Are People
By Katina Michael on August 22nd, 2017 in Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact, Video & Podcasts, Videos
Katina Michael on “What Makes Us Human?” Recorded on 14 June 2013 at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Video credit… Read More
From the ENIAC to the PC: What’s the Next Quantum Leap for Computing?
By Katina Michael on August 22nd, 2017 in Videos
Katina Michael speaks on the future of computing. Recorded on 14 June 2013 at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Video… Read More
Not So Fast
By Katina Michael on July 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Societal Impact
Not So Fast: Thinking Twice about Technology. By Doug Hill. Univ. of Georgia Press, Oct. 15, 2016, 240 pp. In… Read More
Speaking Out against Socially Destructive Technologies
By Katina Michael on July 28th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Norbert Wiener and the Call for Ethical Engagement Over the last century, the greatest acceleration of technological development has come… Read More
Bots Trending Now: Disinformation and Calculated Manipulation of the Masses
By Katina Michael on July 28th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Robotics
A bot (short for robot) performs highly repetitive tasks by automatically gathering or posting information based on a set of… Read More
Religion, Science, and Technology
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Human Impacts, Interview, Magazine Articles
An Interview with Metropolitan Kallistos Ware Born Timothy Ware in Bath, Somerset, England, Metropolitan Kallistos was educated at Westminster School… Read More
Socio-Ethical Implications of Implantable Technologies in the Military Sector
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Nanotechnology in the Military The military sector has been investing in nanotechnology solutions since their inception. Internal assessment committees in… Read More
When Uber Cars Become Driverless: “They Won’t Need No Driver”
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact
I have long pondered the issue of dehumanization through automation. I think the old adage: “no one is irreplaceable” now… Read More
Can Good Standards Propel Unethical Technologies?
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion
Figure 1. Bus drivers across the West Midlands were equipped with mini DNA kits in 2012 to help police track… Read More
Gone Fishing: Breaking with the Biometric Rhythm of Tech-Centricism
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
On the 9th of December in 2015, I set out for a camping trip with my three young children to… Read More
Beyond Human: Lifelogging and Life Extension
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Robotics
I have often wondered what it would be like to rid myself of a keyboard for data entry, and a… Read More
We’ve Got to Do Better
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
Each year, thousands of film buffs gather at the Sundance International Film Festival in Park City, UT, U.S.A., to see… Read More