AI’s abilities to conduct profiling and automate decision-making – as well as its other uses – threaten myriad human rights. It can affect the “rights to health, education, freedom of movement, freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and freedom of expression,” the UN human rights office warned.
Category Archives: ethics
What if your college dorm analyzed your sewage to find out if you’re pregnant or on drugs?
This story is part of Future Tense Fiction, a monthly series of short stories from Future Tense and Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives.
https://slate.com/technology/2021/08/beauty-surge-laura-maylene-walter-short-story.html
How humans and AI will collaborate to be at the center of our relationships
Wearable Computers Should Never Have Cameras
The term AI overpromises. Let’s make machine learning work better for humans instead
“Humans become the sex organs of the machine world” Marshall Mcluhan
This company claims to help the world’s biggest corporations recycle. Activists say it’s greenwashing.
Emotion recognition: can AI detect human feelings from a face?
Detecting Conspiracy Theories on Social Media (RAND)
Improving Machine Learning to Detect and Understand Online Conspiracy Theories Read more (RAND)
by William Marcellino, Todd C. Helmus, Joshua Kerrigan, Hilary Reininger, Rouslan I. Karimov, Rebecca Ann Lawrence
Wireless brain implant to make friends?
Using the tiny, battery-free brain implant device, the team were able to program and deprogram mice to socially interact with each other in real-time. When two or more mice had their devices switched on, they interacted much more than usual, and when the device was switched off, the opposite effect was nearly immediate. Read more
