“Why would a Russian oil company want to target information on American voters?” Chris asks in the article. Cambridge Analytica claims to have 4000-5000 data points on 230,000,000 U.S. adults.

“Why would a Russian oil company want to target information on American voters?” Chris asks in the article. Cambridge Analytica claims to have 4000-5000 data points on 230,000,000 U.S. adults.
Skilling-up for an AI-powered world involves more than science, technology, engineering and math. As computers behave more like humans, the social sciences and humanities will become even more important. Languages, art, history, economics, ethics, philosophy, psychology and human development courses can teach critical, philosophical and ethics-based skills that will be instrumental in the development and management of AI solutions.
Prior to 2016 there was little press with occasional hype about artificial intelligence. Somewhere in the last two years we… Read More
I have an expectation that machine consciousness will emerge unexpected, unsought, and perhaps undetected.
Web artificial intelligence (AI) evolution is driven, in part, by the evolution of the web. Daniel Dennett, in his recent… Read More
A Guest Blog Post from: Victoria A. Hailey, CMC & Katherine Bennett, (standards development leaders in IEEE). On 28 September 2017,… Read More
The next generation of socio-technical system can be seen as a kind of “focal point” for the convergence of a number of current trends in computing, information systems, and information technology. These trends include the technology-driven instrumentation of infrastructure by ubiquitous computing and/or “intelligent” devices, with the prefix “smart” now taking precedence over the prefix “e-,” i.e. SmartGrids, SmartCities, SmartMotorways, etc., rather than the e-commerce. e-health, e-learning initiatives commonplace at the turn of millennium.
What are your values? I’m asking you, the reader. As a quick exercise, try to write down ten values you… Read More
At the IEEE 2016 Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century, held in Melbourne, Australia, July 13–15, 2016, Keith… Read More
Heather M. Roff and Peter W. Singer [1] strikingly identify a problem for the next American president in the form… Read More
An Interview with Metropolitan Kallistos Ware Born Timothy Ware in Bath, Somerset, England, Metropolitan Kallistos was educated at Westminster School… Read More
Mary Catherine Bateson in an interview from the 2014 Norbert Wiener Conference in Boston. In the early part of… Read More
Historically, the evolution of research in the areas of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) has always been related, although with… Read More
“Resistance is futile” is a catchphrase that has become synonymous with the adoption of new technologies [1]. The idea was… Read More
Computers tell us what to do, every day, all the time. Is this a problem? I may get irritated when… Read More
Slavery is the coercive and controlled use of another human. Contrary to the belief that the practice ended in the… Read More
I have long pondered the issue of dehumanization through automation. I think the old adage: “no one is irreplaceable” now… Read More
“Can we program ethics into Artificial Intelligence?” was the topic of a keynote panel initiated by SSIT at the July… Read More
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible. — Ray… Read More
The desire to create a sentient Artificial Intelligence (Al) as complex as a human intelligence, or one that even surpasses… Read More