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Should we let robots kill on their own?
"“We’ve been focusing on trying to define what an autonomous weapon is so it can be the basis for an international agreement,” explained Peter Asaro, Ph.D.…
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U.S. Patent Office revokes key elements of controversial podcasting patent
""This is a patent on updating a Web page, when you really look at it, it's a patent on updating a table of contents where some of the links could…
Bait, Mask, and Ruse
Deception and enticement have long been tools of the police, but new technologies have enabled investigative deceit to become more powerful and pervasive. Most…
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President Obama steps up the fight against cyber threats
"For Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and a specialist in cyber law, the problem is broader. S…
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Rehtaeh Parsons, Dalhousie and the wait for justice in Nova Scotia
"Shaheen Shariff, an associate professor at McGill University and author of Sexting and Cyberbullying: Defining the Line for Digitally Empowered Kids, sees…
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‘Ex Machina’ is the best movie about artificial intelligence in 40 years
"These are the kinds of questions that obsess AI reseachers. “We’ll have to come up with new rights and norms; human rights won’t do,” University of Washin…
Social Media Needs Limitations Not Choices
Social Media is always updating to give people more. More features like video and picture sharing. More freedom to use third-party apps. More capacity to store…
What Ex Machina's Alex Garland Gets Wrong About Artificial Intelligence
Ex Machina opens this weekend. Its director, Alex Garland of 28 Days Later acclaim, appeared on Marketplace today to discuss the role of artificial intelligence…
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Fact-checking John Oliver's interview with Edward Snowden about NSA surveillance
"Other experts pointed out that we don’t know for sure what happens to these exchanges when they are collected. Jonathan Mayer, a cybersecurity fellow at S…
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How Do You Make Laws For Killer Robots?
"The conference was organized by UW professor Ryan Calo. He said there’s a role for regulation of robot use in politics to influence elections or deceptive…
Granick Says People Should Be More Outraged About Internet Privacy
Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties for the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said that people aren't really understanding how the Interne…
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Chicago man sues Facebook over facial recognition use in “Tag Suggestions”
"Strahilevitz told Ars that Yana Welinder, a lawyer and legal fellow with Stanford University, wrote ajournal article in 2012 in the Harvard Law Review tou…