Top news of the week: 28.07.2022.
ALife Ethics: Should Artificial Systems Have Rights?
An Online Workshop, ALife 2022 Conference, Trento, Italy, 18 – 22 July. This workshop aims to connect Artificial Life research with the ethics of artificial systems.
Leverage points, misunderstandings, fascinations, and missed opportunities
Dear Futurists, After a break of several weeks (more about that below), here are a few news items that may interest you – starting with our event tomorrow (Saturday 23rd July). 1.) ...
AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe
Today, in partnership with EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), we’re now releasing predicted structures for nearly all catalogued proteins known to science, which will ...
How AI is changing medical practice
This event has moved to online only Sydney Ideas is delighted to welcome back Professor Frank Pasquale (Brooklyn Law School), a leading author and academic on the law of …
What We Can All Learn From How Jewish Law Defines Personhood in A.I., Animals, and Aliens
The prospect of living algorithms is only one manifestation of a key question: What makes us uniquely human?
Contesting Freedom of Information: Capitalism, Development, and the Third World
Contesting Freedom of Information: Capitalism, Development, and the Third World
Telling Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence
Telling Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence 19 Stories Edited by Ryan Calo, Batya Friedman, Tadayoshi Kohno, Hannah Almeter and Nick Logler University of …
Transhumanist FAQ
“Transhumanism is a class of philosophies of life that seek the continuation and acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently human form and human …