Autonomous Weapons: an Interview With the Experts
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 Ariz…
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How to Fix Silicon Valley’s Sexist Algorithms
"But not everyone believes gender bias should be eliminated from the data sets. Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton,…
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Who is Responsible for Autonomous Weapons?
"Peter Asaro, a philosopher of science, technology, and media at The New School in New York City, has been working on addressing these fundamental question…
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Robotics experts tell Congress the U.S. is in danger of losing the international robot race
"Ryan Calo, a technology law professor at the University of Washington who edited the new Roadmap for Robotics report, argues that the government should ev…
HBO's 'Westworld' and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
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 Univers…
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Conference: Ethics of Specific Technologies
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…
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Experts praise White House AI report but split on regulation
"Ryan Calo a law professor at University of Washington, said when human lives are involved, government should sign off on new technology. “My basic view i…
There is a blind spot in AI research
Kate Crawford & Ryan Calo This week, the White House published its report on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) — a product of four workshops held…
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UW law professor Ryan Calo to join experts at White House conference
"Ryan Calo, an assistant professor in the University of Washington School of Law, will be among national experts at a White House event tomorrow on innovat…
Privacy & surveillance concerns over voice-recognition devices, Google Home & Amazon Echo
Recently, when Google announced its own version of Amazon's voice-recognition digital home assistant, the company did not spend a moment addressing any priv…
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Robots Are Developing Feelings. Will They Ever Become "People"?
"Robots can show emotions without actually having emotions, though. "Robots are now designed to exhibit emotion," says Patrick Lin, director of t…
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Frankenstein’s paperclips
"Deep learning, with its ability to spot patterns and find clusters of similar examples, has obvious potential to fight crime—and allow authoritarian gover…