Category Archives: robots
Blade Runner 2049 misses rise of creative artificial intelligence
UN calls for moratorium on AI that threatens human rights
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.
How humans and AI will collaborate to be at the center of our relationships
The term AI overpromises. Let’s make machine learning work better for humans instead
Her and the Future of Human social Relationships
Slavoj Zizek on Dating
Robot Rights
A provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights of robots. Read more (MIT)
The Next Human: Brain and Body as Connected Devices
Is there a difference if the tool is in our hand or if it is an implant in our brain?
The rise of virtual surgery
Now that the cultural resistance has been broken down, ‘Zoom surgery’ is likely to remain a feature of modern medicine. But during Covid-19 lockdowns, with travel restricted, doctors have not been able to work in other countries or share expertise with colleagues face to face. As a result, some of the cultural resistance among surgeons towards telemedicine has started to melt away. In 2020, there were ninefold and fivefold increases respectively in the number of users and procedures on Proximie’s platform. Read more (Financial Times)
