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January 15, 2019
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Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Expose a Key Problem

Most moderators are not skilled and have only a few seconds to decide on a post
News
January 15, 2019
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Social Factors, Technocracy
Censorship is part of the larger question of whether social media are the telephone company (a communications platform), the newspaper (a publisher), or unregulated private klatsches. Or something else altogether? Read More ›
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January 14, 2019
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Your Phone Knows Everything Now

And in a world where no data is anonymous, yours may be sold to the highest bidder
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January 14, 2019
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Data Privacy, Technocracy
Your location can be a useful guide to your buying habits, whether or not you want to buy anything or think anyone has any business snooping on you to find out. Read More ›
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Eric Holloway
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January 4, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy
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Will artificial intelligence design artificial super-intelligence?

And then turn us all into super-geniuses, as some AI researchers hope? No, and here's why not
Eric Holloway
January 4, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy
Because Moore's law is an exponential law, the numbers multiply rapidly and we could hit the physical limit rather suddenly. Current indications are that Moore’s law’s speed has already slowed or even ceased to be a true description of the IT industry today. Read More ›
Artificial Intelligence Playing Go
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Robert J. Marks
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December 20, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy
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10. Is AI Really Becoming “Human-like”?

AI help, not hype: Here’s #10 of our Top Ten AI hypes, flops, and spins of 2018
Robert J. Marks
December 20, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy

A headline from the UK Telegraph reads “DeepMind's AlphaZero now showing human-like intuition in historical 'turning point' for AI” Don't worry if you missed it.

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December 14, 2018
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Machine Learning, Social Factors, Technocracy, Work
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No, Twitter Is Not the New Awful

It’s the Old Awful back for more. It’s the Town Without Pity we all tried to get away from
News
December 14, 2018
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Machine Learning, Social Factors, Technocracy, Work
We need to decide: Is Twitter the telephone company (a communications platform), the newspaper (a publisher), or interconnected private gossip klatsches where anyone can say whatever they want, whatever ensues? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 7, 2018
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Ethics, Social Factors, Technocracy
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Science Confronts Credibility Issues?

Not to worry, prestigious researchers blame them on social media trolls and bots
Denyse O'Leary
December 7, 2018
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Ethics, Social Factors, Technocracy
And another thing: The researchers phoned the Seventies and asked them to please come back. Soon. Seriously, that’s the impression I get from reading a paper in PNAS, stemming from the National Academy of Sciences’ Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium November 2017 Read More ›
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Mind Matters
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December 4, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy
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Stephen Hawking and the AI Apocalypse

Can doomsday headlines, chasing fame, stand in for deep knowledge of a subject?
Mind Matters
December 4, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy
One thing a celebrity pundit can usually count on is an audience of media professionals who haven’t considered the problems carefully either and don’t want to. It is much easier and more profitable to market Doomsday than Levin’s Law. As always, the fact that laws governing the universe will eventually triumph is true but not news.   Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 30, 2018
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Social Factors, Technocracy, Work
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Who Does the Concept of “Intellectual Property” Really Benefit?

Was traditional copyright law meant to protect algorithms that decide people’s financial fate?
Denyse O'Leary
November 30, 2018
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Social Factors, Technocracy, Work
The title question is more complicated than we might at first suppose. The short answer is, not necessarily the starving artist, says Samir Chopra, a Brooklyn College philosophy professor and co-author with Laurence F. White of A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents. Read More ›
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Retro robots
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 28, 2018
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Does Democracy Demand a War on Twitterbots?

A key concern is that citizens could be induced to vote for a demagogue by Twitterbots spreading fake news.
Denyse O'Leary
November 28, 2018
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Social Factors, Technocracy
Underlying much of the angst about the political impact of bots is a basic premise: Most of us need help thinking for ourselves and protection from the many bad influences that we are not able to recognize, the way our betters can. Read More ›