Can Computer Algorithms Be Free of Bias?
Bias is inevitable but it should be recognized and admittedGregory Coppola’s revelations about Google’s politically biased search engine shone a spotlight on how algorithms are written.
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Silicon Valley’s Strange, Apocalyptic Cult
Key Valley figures hope to beat death the transhumanist way. Oh, by the way, YOU are doomedEverything has a history, including Silicon Valley. According to a new media theorist, an influential Valley philosophy might underlie the current attitudes, values, and beliefs: There is a Silicon Valley religion, and it’s one that doesn’t particularly care for people — at least not in our present form. Technologists may pretend to be led by a utilitarian, computational logic devoid of superstition, but make no mistake: There is a prophetic belief system embedded in the technologies and business plans coming out of Google, Uber, Facebook, and Amazon, among others. Douglas Rushkoff, “The Anti-Human Religion of Silicon Valley” at Medium In an excerpt from his new book, Team Human (2019), Rushkoff traces the history to a post-Cold War collaboration centered on Read More ›
Exporting and Securing Technologies of Today and Tomorrow
U.S. Export Control and Research EspionageTechnology is vital in commerce and war. Corporations spend billions in development and don’t want to get ripped off. Technology and AI, more than ever, determine military superiority. What are the laws that protect technology and how are they enforced? Show Notes 01:20 | Introduction; Daniel M. Ogden, J.D. 03:06 | Reasons for protected technology 04:00 | Determining what needs Read More ›
AI: Think About Ethics Before Trouble Arises
A machine learning specialist reflects on Micah 6:8 as a guide to developing ethics for the rapidly growing profession
AI and the Future of Murder
If I kill you but upload your mind into an android, did I murder you or just modify you?
Google.com or Google.gov?
A political analyst argues that Google is beginning to mesh with governments whose values are compatible with its own.
Is social media the best communications tool that ever happened?
The worst communications tool that ever happened? Or something less comfortable than either?
The End of Human Drama
Part 3: Yuval Harari on the end of democracy, volition, religion, and art?In this third part of their reflection on Yuval Harari’s Atlantic piece anticipating technology’s march toward tyranny, Jay Richards and Robert J. Marks discuss the many assumptions therein. At the root of these speculations is an overestimation of the power of information processing systems and an underestimation of the human ability to be the true governors of their creations, not their docile “pets”. Harari rightly points to a better understanding of the mind as the way forward, but fails to appreciate its true nature, resulting in a dismal prognosis for art, religion, and democracy.
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Peaceful code of conduct sparks rage in Silicon Valley
Hi tech firm’s code, based on ancient monks’ practice, deemed “just disgusting”
George Gilder explains what’s wrong with “Google Marxism”
In discussion with Mark Levin, host of Life, Liberty & Levin
Google Powering China’s Snoop Culture
They’ve suppressed the memo but can’t suppress the uproar around it
Twitter doesn’t just seem out of control
It actually is.
Silicon Valley grew old before it grew up
By April of this year, 100 employees were complaining about the Google groupthink
Imagining Life after Google
Reviewers of George Gilder's new book weigh inIf we have simply taken the big software, hardware, and social media companies who dominate our lives for granted, the reactions from the business world to Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy should give us a lot to think about.
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Silicon Valley as a Colonial Power
Irish writer asks us to look more carefully at claims about “liberation”
Giant Google’s Vulnerable Spot
Social media are free because we are both the content and the market
Hell Is a “Parasocial” Place
Where your "friends" may not even exist
Will AI Liberate or Enslave Developing Countries?
Perhaps that depends on who gets there first with the technology
George Gilder: Life after Google Will Be Okay
People will take ownership of their own data, cutting out the giant “middle man”In his new book, he calls the successor era he envisions the “cryptocosm,” referring to the private encryption of data, represented by technologies such as blockchain.
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AI Has a (Wonderful) Plan for Your Life
Tech-savvy religion scholars play with reshaping societyThe team is pessimistic about getting politicians on side and hopes to persuade policy analysts to convince the politicians to adopt the policies their model suggests instead. Wildman predicts, “We’re going to get them in the end.”
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