Top news of the week: 12.04.2020.
Organism, Psychology, Technological singularity, Artificial intelligence, Ethics, Sentience
Ethics
RT @Women_AI_Ethics: @TeensInAI @KayFButterfield @johnchavens @AIESConf @CAIDE_UoM @AiEthical @EthicalML @AxSaucedo @aimeevanrobot @NoelSharkey One more resource for great speakers - directory of Women in AI Ethics https://t.co/c7GYzydf8g
OpenOpen directory of Brilliant Women Working on AI Ethics | Lighthouse3 + Diversity in AI
Inspired by the “100 Women in AI Ethics” list authored by Mia Dand, CEO of Lighthouse3, this site is designed to make it easier for organizations to recognize and recruit more talented ...
RT @colinkgarvey: @_alialkhatib I think there's important work to be done here on the equivalence between AI systems and corporations as "utility maximizing agents" -- @jonniepenn was working on this and had a nice op-ed here:
https://t.co/2sHdjv6cwJ
OpenAI thinks like a corporation—and that’s worrying
Artificial intelligence was born of organisational decision-making and state power; it needs human ethics, says Jonnie Penn of the University of Cambridge
How an 18th Century Explorer Can Help Us Understand the Algorithms Taking Over Our World | via @Gizmodo #AI
https://t.co/QSRSrmZXrD
OpenHow an 18th Century Explorer Can Help Us Understand the Algorithms Taking Over Our World
We are in the midst of a Cambrian explosion of algorithms. Roughly 540 million years ago, the fossil record tells us that the planet experienced a dramatic diversification of animal life, ...
Cheers to a decade of technology areas that have been shaping our modern world. 🙌 https://t.co/IY5J5hcN59
OpenTech’s Biggest Leaps From the Last 10 Years, and Why They Matter
The past decade was a breathtaking era in human history in which the idea of exponential growth in information technologies powered by computation became a mainstream concept.
RT @David_Gunkel: Self-isolation just got easier. @MCoeckelbergh's anxiously awaited "AI Ethics" @mitpress. I cannot wait to get reading.
https://t.co/QGpu9nRxBb https://t.co/MtbnQiz4CN
OpenAI Ethics
An accessible synthesis of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence that moves beyond hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions. Artificial ...
Xenobots. Tiny robots crafted from cells taken from an African frog called Xenopus laevis.
https://t.co/wDIfB51kL5
OpenScientists have created a new type of robot that is literally alive
Sitting in a petri dish in the laboratories of Tufts University and the University of Vermont are a new kind of life form — half living cells and half machine. Xenobots are a scientific and ...
Each month, The Existential Risk Research Assessment (TERRA) uses a unique machine-learning model to predict those publications most relevant to existential risk or global catastrophic risk. It suggested 7 in February
https://t.co/an3FogqzBL
Open2 Recent Publications on Existential Risk (March 2020 update)
Accumulating evidence using crowdsourcing and machine learning: A living bibliography about existential risk and global catastrophic risk The study of existential risk — the risk …
RT @anderssandberg: "Unfortunately for him, Oxford philosopher Toby Ord is a true prophet." https://t.co/2MDpSAmOPV
OpenBook Review: The Precipice
I. It is a well known fact that the gods hate prophets. False prophets they punish only with ridicule. It’s the true prophets who have to watch out. The gods find some way to make their ...