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Can artificial intelligence identify guns fast enough to stop violence?

November 11, 2019

"There are already some police and security robots in use around the world, ranging from surveillance robots to prison guards to a lethal remote-controlled rover in use in Israel. But there don’t seem to be any laws regulating robots using nonlethal force. Ryan Calo, law professor at the University of Washington, said we’re not likely to see any legislation from Congress. Read more about Can artificial intelligence identify guns fast enough to stop violence?

Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk

November 17, 2018

"Law professor Ryan Calo, co-director of the University of Washington's Tech Policy Lab, says AI-based monitoring of social media may follow a predictable pattern for how new technologies gradually work their way into law enforcement.

"The way it would happen would be we would take something that everybody agrees is terrible — something like suicide, which is epidemic, something like child pornography, something like terrorism — so these early things, and then if they show promise in these sectors, we broaden them to more and more things. And that's a concern."" Read more about Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk

Autonomous Weapons: an Interview With the Experts

November 30, 2016

FLI’s Ariel Conn recently spoke with Heather Roff and Peter Asaro about autonomous weapons. Roff, a research scientist at The Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University and a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford, recently compiled an international database of weapons systems that exhibit some level of autonomous capabilities. Asaro is a philosopher of science, technology, and media at The New School in New York City. Read more about Autonomous Weapons: an Interview With the Experts

HBO's 'Westworld' and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

November 2, 2016

Peter Asaro (assistant professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School) and S. Matthew Liao (director of the Center for Bioethics at New York University) talk to Live Science's Denise Chow and Space.com's Tariq Malik about the ethics of AI. Read more about HBO's 'Westworld' and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Conference: Ethics of Specific Technologies

October 15, 2016

On October 14-15, 2016, the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness in conjunction with the NYU Center for Bioethics hosted a conference on “The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence”. Read more about Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Conference: Ethics of Specific Technologies

Privacy & surveillance concerns over voice-recognition devices, Google Home & Amazon Echo

October 11, 2016

Recently, when Google announced its own version of Amazon's voice-recognition digital home assistant, the company did not spend a moment addressing any privacy safeguards nor concerns.

As Wall Street Journal tech reporter Geoffrey Fowler tweeted: "So just to review, Google says it wants to install microphones all over your house. And didn't talk about privacy." Read more about Privacy & surveillance concerns over voice-recognition devices, Google Home & Amazon Echo

Artificial Intelligence: Law and Policy

May 24, 2016

The University of Washington School of Law is delighted to announce a public workshop on the law and policy of artificial intelligence, co-hosted by the White House and UW’s Tech Policy Lab. The event places leading artificial intelligence experts from academia and industry in conversation with government officials interested in developing a wise and effective policy framework for this increasingly important technology. Read more about Artificial Intelligence: Law and Policy

A responsible approach to artificial intelligence

January 26, 2015

Listen to the full interview at Marketplace Tech.

"Calo recently signed an open letter that detailed his and others’ concerns over AI’s rapid progress. The letter was published by the Future of Life Institute, a research organization studying the potential risks posed by AI. The letter has since been endorsed by scientists, CEOs, researchers, students and professors connected to the tech world. Read more about A responsible approach to artificial intelligence

Should We Fear Artificial Intelligence?

January 13, 2015

Listen to the full interview with Ryan Calo at BBC The Inquiry.

Billions of dollars are pouring into the latest investor craze: artificial intelligence. But serious scientists like Stephen Hawking have warned that full AI could spell the end of the human race. How seriously should we take the warnings that ever-smarter computers could turn on us? Our expert witnesses explain the threat, the opportunities and how we might avoid being turned into paperclips. Read more about Should We Fear Artificial Intelligence?

Why Limitless Technology Could Be A Disaster

May 12, 2014

View the full video at Huffpost Live.

Famed physicist Steven Hawking warns that while success in creating artificial intelligence would be the biggest event in human history, it may also be our last. What can we do to prepare ourselves now before it's too late?

Hosted by: Alyona Minkovski Read more about Why Limitless Technology Could Be A Disaster

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