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AI Ethics explores the potential concern with the AI revolution. Our reliance on AI will inevitably cause many ethical issues — affecting everyone, from small businesses utilizing AI to entrepreneurs developing the latest tech, and even public citizens.

Monthly report: January 2020

This month, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 156 influencers like Joanna J Bryson and Gerd Leonhard, discussing hashtags such as #AI , #aiethics and #biology.
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@singularityu shared
On Jan 23, 2020
This is what happens when #AI meets #biology—living bots. https://t.co/xIMNemPH6J
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Not Bot, Not Beast: Scientists Create First Ever Living, Programmable Organism

Xenobots are less than 1 millimeter long and are made of 500-1,000 living cells. Using their own cellular energy, they can live up to 10 days.

@singularityu shared
On Jan 23, 2020
This is what happens when #AI meets #biology—living bots. https://t.co/xIMNemPH6J
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Not Bot, Not Beast: Scientists Create First Ever Living, Programmable Organism

Not Bot, Not Beast: Scientists Create First Ever Living, Programmable Organism

Xenobots are less than 1 millimeter long and are made of 500-1,000 living cells. Using their own cellular energy, they can live up to 10 days.

@IBMWatson shared
On Jan 29, 2020
From 1955 to now, learn how far IBM and MIT have come in collaboration, and where the partnership aims to take #AI in the future. ► https://t.co/tYdokf1mBh https://t.co/p9CwGptY9w
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The Shared History and Vision Behind the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

Artificial Intelligence (AI), perhaps more than any human invention before it, holds the potential to reshape our world. In just the last…

@IBMWatson shared
On Jan 29, 2020
From 1955 to now, learn how far IBM and MIT have come in collaboration, and where the partnership aims to take #AI in the future. ► https://t.co/tYdokf1mBh https://t.co/p9CwGptY9w
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The Shared History and Vision Behind the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

The Shared History and Vision Behind the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

Artificial Intelligence (AI), perhaps more than any human invention before it, holds the potential to reshape our world. In just the last…

@gleonhard shared
On Jan 1, 2020
“The bottom line is 20th-century tools for protecting a free society won’t work for 21st-century tech giants.” Facebook and the grand challenge of digital ethics https://t.co/sPQdcqxDP8 via Instapaper
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Facebook and the grand challenge of digital ethics

Forrester’s Brian Hopkins outlines how Facebook’s business moves in media and finance present an ethical challenge.

@gleonhard shared
On Jan 1, 2020
“The bottom line is 20th-century tools for protecting a free society won’t work for 21st-century tech giants.” Facebook and the grand challenge of digital ethics https://t.co/sPQdcqxDP8 via Instapaper
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Facebook and the grand challenge of digital ethics

Facebook and the grand challenge of digital ethics

Forrester’s Brian Hopkins outlines how Facebook’s business moves in media and finance present an ethical challenge.

@wimlds shared
On Jan 6, 2020
RT @langemarie: In 2020, let’s stop AI ethics-washing and actually do something #AI #ethics https://t.co/tU6Tdf00Ak
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In 2020, let’s stop AI ethics-washing and actually do something

There’s more talk of AI ethics than ever before. But talk is just that—it’s not enough.

@wimlds shared
On Jan 6, 2020
RT @langemarie: In 2020, let’s stop AI ethics-washing and actually do something #AI #ethics https://t.co/tU6Tdf00Ak
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In 2020, let’s stop AI ethics-washing and actually do something

In 2020, let’s stop AI ethics-washing and actually do something

There’s more talk of AI ethics than ever before. But talk is just that—it’s not enough.

@j2bryson shared
On Jan 16, 2020
@SurviveThrive2 See particularly the durative state paper https://t.co/kHb9rN4lm4 note also “role for consciousness “ nearby, tho I don’t think it’s much related to your usage of the term
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AI Ethics: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Society

Like the title says, an attempt to simplify and improve on the systems for representing emotions and drives I wrote with Emmanuel Tanguy and Phil Rolphshagen (the Dynamic Emotion Representation (DER) and Fexible Latching respectively, see below). Eugene Y. Bann and Joanna J. Bryson The ...

@j2bryson shared
On Jan 16, 2020
@SurviveThrive2 See particularly the durative state paper https://t.co/kHb9rN4lm4 note also “role for consciousness “ nearby, tho I don’t think it’s much related to your usage of the term
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AI Ethics: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Society

AI Ethics: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Society

Like the title says, an attempt to simplify and improve on the systems for representing emotions and drives I wrote with Emmanuel Tanguy and Phil Rolphshagen (the Dynamic Emotion ...

@johnchavens shared
On Jan 24, 2020
Artificial intelligence researchers create ethics center at University of Michigan https://t.co/2joEizgNej Nice! Love the feminist + AR / VR focus areas. Congrats and hope to collaborate.
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Artificial intelligence researchers create ethics center at University of Michigan

Researchers have been exploring the need to set ethics standards and policies when it comes to the use of artificial intelligence, and they now have their own place to do so.

@johnchavens shared
On Jan 24, 2020
Artificial intelligence researchers create ethics center at University of Michigan https://t.co/2joEizgNej Nice! Love the feminist + AR / VR focus areas. Congrats and hope to collaborate.
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Artificial intelligence researchers create ethics center at University of Michigan

Artificial intelligence researchers create ethics center at University of Michigan

Researchers have been exploring the need to set ethics standards and policies when it comes to the use of artificial intelligence, and they now have their own place to do so.

@BenedictDel shared
On Jan 13, 2020
RT @CDEIUK: Our paper last year raised similar concerns, particularly about #shallowfakes (or #cheapfakes), and a new era of deniability: 'If every video has the potential to be a fake, it offers people the opportunity to challenge the veracity of genuine footage.' https://t.co/ZxwvO5426v
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Snapshot Paper - Deepfakes and Audiovisual Disinformation

The Ministry of Justice and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport recently commissioned a review of the laws around the non-consensual sharing of sexual images to ensure they capture new types of synthesised content created by advanced software, including deepfake ...

@BenedictDel shared
On Jan 13, 2020
RT @CDEIUK: Our paper last year raised similar concerns, particularly about #shallowfakes (or #cheapfakes), and a new era of deniability: 'If every video has the potential to be a fake, it offers people the opportunity to challenge the veracity of genuine footage.' https://t.co/ZxwvO5426v
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Snapshot Paper - Deepfakes and Audiovisual Disinformation

Snapshot Paper - Deepfakes and Audiovisual Disinformation

The Ministry of Justice and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport recently commissioned a review of the laws around the non-consensual sharing of sexual images to ensure they ...

@IEET shared
On Jan 23, 2020
RT @FLIxrisk: The evolution of technologies like AI & biotech is raising complex new questions about the definition of self & the meaning of humanness. On the latest AI Alignment Podcast, catch @webmasterdave & @algekalipso on the nature of identity in the 21st century. https://t.co/UBgbNyCHpx https://t.co/KQ9t8eooNv
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AI Alignment Podcast: Identity and the AI Revolution with David Pearce and Andrés Gómez Emilsson

In this episode of the AI Alignment Podcast, David Pearce and Andres Gomez Emilsson discuss questions of personal identity in relation to the AI revolution.

@IEET shared
On Jan 23, 2020
RT @FLIxrisk: The evolution of technologies like AI & biotech is raising complex new questions about the definition of self & the meaning of humanness. On the latest AI Alignment Podcast, catch @webmasterdave & @algekalipso on the nature of identity in the 21st century. https://t.co/UBgbNyCHpx https://t.co/KQ9t8eooNv
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AI Alignment Podcast: Identity and the AI Revolution with David Pearce and Andrés Gómez Emilsson

AI Alignment Podcast: Identity and the AI Revolution with David Pearce and Andrés Gómez Emilsson

In this episode of the AI Alignment Podcast, David Pearce and Andres Gomez Emilsson discuss questions of personal identity in relation to the AI revolution.

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