Top news of the week: 30.12.2021.
Ethics
Public dialogue on location data ethics published
The Geospatial Commission publishes findings of independent public dialogue exploring public attitudes about location data.
Anthropomorphized AI as Capitalist Agents: The Price We Pay for Familiarity
By Dalia Renzullo (Philosophy, McGill University) Abstract: The development of anthropomorphic AI technology is part of a process of social acclimatization that facilitates its use for ...
The Machine Question
An investigation into the assignment of moral responsibilities and rights to intelligent and autonomous machines of our own making. One of the enduring concerns of moral ...
DeepMind says its new language model can beat others 25 times its size
RETRO uses an external memory to look up passages of text on the fly, avoiding some of the costs of training a vast neural network
AI is learning how to create itself
Is AI that learns on its own the path to truly intelligent machines?
Probing Networked Agency: Where is the Locus of Moral Responsibility?
By Audrey Balogh (Philosophy, McGill University) This paper problematizes the case for autonomous robots as loci of moral responsibility in circuits of networked agency, namely by troubling ...
Nikola Danaylov: Technology Reveals Who We Are, Not The Future
The 1st atomic bomb was nicknamed “gadget.” Does this say something about who we are? Or something about the nature of technology?
Can China and Europe find common ground on AI ethics?
The cultural differences between China and Europe present a unique set of challenges when it comes to aligning AI ethics. Is a global framework possible?