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Monthly report: June 2020

This month, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 204 influencers like Rob McCargow and Ada Lovelace Institute, discussing hashtags such as #AI , #CogX2020 and #ethics.
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@alan_winfield shared
On Jun 10, 2020
@MarkRyanEthics @PabloRedux @EmergTechEthics Yes the IEEE ethics initiative has 14 ethical standards in development (see https://t.co/dWjOWC0ZTM), one of which, IEEE 7010-2020 on metrics for well being has very recently been published https://t.co/38bE5Rw7x7
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Ethically Aligned Design

The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems is launching the Ethically Aligned Design, First Edition.

@alan_winfield shared
On Jun 10, 2020
@MarkRyanEthics @PabloRedux @EmergTechEthics Yes the IEEE ethics initiative has 14 ethical standards in development (see https://t.co/dWjOWC0ZTM), one of which, IEEE 7010-2020 on metrics for well being has very recently been published https://t.co/38bE5Rw7x7
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Ethically Aligned Design

Ethically Aligned Design

The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems is launching the Ethically Aligned Design, First Edition.

@LeverhulmeCFI shared
On Jun 4, 2020
RT @AdaLovelaceInst: On Monday we're hosting a full day of talks on the Ethics & Society stage at #CogX2020. We still have FREE Topic Passes to giveaway and we want to ensure everyone who otherwise wouldn't be able to attend can. Drop us a DM if you want to join. https://t.co/sjwYrVrbck
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Ada Lovelace Institute curates ‘Ethics & Society’ at CogX 2020

This year’s CogX festival theme frames the question: ‘How do we get the next 10 years right?’ On Monday 8 June from 10am to 6.45pm BST, join us and 26 thought-leaders from policy,...

@LeverhulmeCFI shared
On Jun 4, 2020
RT @AdaLovelaceInst: On Monday we're hosting a full day of talks on the Ethics & Society stage at #CogX2020. We still have FREE Topic Passes to giveaway and we want to ensure everyone who otherwise wouldn't be able to attend can. Drop us a DM if you want to join. https://t.co/sjwYrVrbck
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Ada Lovelace Institute curates ‘Ethics & Society’ at CogX 2020

Ada Lovelace Institute curates ‘Ethics & Society’ at CogX 2020

This year’s CogX festival theme frames the question: ‘How do we get the next 10 years right?’ On Monday 8 June from 10am to 6.45pm BST, join us and 26 thought-leaders from policy,...

@rivatez shared
On Jun 3, 2020
this isn’t Fox News, this is @ScienceMagazine looking into the recent damning hydroxychloroquine paper championed by both mainstream news and WHO. even if only partly true, this is an insane story. https://t.co/FRykkuv1D6
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A mysterious company’s coronavirus papers in top medical journals may be unraveling

Scientists and journals express concern over influential studies of COVID-19 patient data that evaluated possible treatments such as hydroxychloroquine

@rivatez shared
On Jun 3, 2020
this isn’t Fox News, this is @ScienceMagazine looking into the recent damning hydroxychloroquine paper championed by both mainstream news and WHO. even if only partly true, this is an insane story. https://t.co/FRykkuv1D6
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A mysterious company’s coronavirus papers in top medical journals may be unraveling

A mysterious company’s coronavirus papers in top medical journals may be unraveling

Scientists and journals express concern over influential studies of COVID-19 patient data that evaluated possible treatments such as hydroxychloroquine

@RobMcCargow shared
On Jun 5, 2020
Covid, hysteresis, and the #FutureofWork | by @BaldwinRE @voxeu h/t @amonck https://t.co/0uBTmfsrSL
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Covid, hysteresis, and the future of work

Has Covid accelerated the future of work? This column argues that Covid has changed the future of work via four shocks: massive job losses, massive digital transformations, massive debt burdens, and massive costs of socially distanced office space. These matter in two ways. ...

@RobMcCargow shared
On Jun 5, 2020
Covid, hysteresis, and the #FutureofWork | by @BaldwinRE @voxeu h/t @amonck https://t.co/0uBTmfsrSL
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Covid, hysteresis, and the future of work

Covid, hysteresis, and the future of work

Has Covid accelerated the future of work? This column argues that Covid has changed the future of work via four shocks: massive job losses, massive digital transformations, massive debt ...

@RobMcCargow shared
On Jun 11, 2020
Humans will add to #AI’s limitations—It will slow progress even more, but another AI winter is unlikely | via @TheEconomist https://t.co/djMluXxYsH
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The future Humans will add to AI’s limitations

It will slow progress even more, but another AI winter is unlikely

@RobMcCargow shared
On Jun 11, 2020
Humans will add to #AI’s limitations—It will slow progress even more, but another AI winter is unlikely | via @TheEconomist https://t.co/djMluXxYsH
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The future Humans will add to AI’s limitations

The future Humans will add to AI’s limitations

It will slow progress even more, but another AI winter is unlikely

@johnchavens shared
On Jun 21, 2020
RT @Abebab: Greatly honoured a piece @theblub & I wrote is featured in the inaugural issue of @NoemaMag! “In the current reality of AI, a call for robot rights becomes perverse — amounting to arguing for more rights and less accountability for tech companies.” https://t.co/7tgRzolHfp
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A Misdirected Application Of AI Ethics

“It is detestable to consider the armchair mental gymnastics of ‘robot rights’ as a pressing ethical issue in light of real threats and harms imposed by AI today on society’s most vulnerable.”

@johnchavens shared
On Jun 21, 2020
RT @Abebab: Greatly honoured a piece @theblub & I wrote is featured in the inaugural issue of @NoemaMag! “In the current reality of AI, a call for robot rights becomes perverse — amounting to arguing for more rights and less accountability for tech companies.” https://t.co/7tgRzolHfp
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A Misdirected Application Of AI Ethics

A Misdirected Application Of AI Ethics

“It is detestable to consider the armchair mental gymnastics of ‘robot rights’ as a pressing ethical issue in light of real threats and harms imposed by AI today on society’s most ...

@LeverhulmeCFI shared
On Jun 25, 2020
RT @jesswhittles: I did an interview with the MIT @techreview about the limitations of AI ethics, how COVID-19 has made these limitations both more stark and more pressing, and what we need to get right if we're going to be able to use AI to help avert crises in future: https://t.co/3gqcoN0SOg
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If AI is going to help us in a crisis, we need a new kind of ethics

Jess Whittlestone at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and her colleagues published a comment piece in Nature Machine Intelligence this week arguing that if artificial intelligence is going to help in a crisis, we need a new, faster way of ...

@LeverhulmeCFI shared
On Jun 25, 2020
RT @jesswhittles: I did an interview with the MIT @techreview about the limitations of AI ethics, how COVID-19 has made these limitations both more stark and more pressing, and what we need to get right if we're going to be able to use AI to help avert crises in future: https://t.co/3gqcoN0SOg
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If AI is going to help us in a crisis, we need a new kind of ethics

If AI is going to help us in a crisis, we need a new kind of ethics

Jess Whittlestone at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and her colleagues published a comment piece in Nature Machine Intelligence this ...

@SamHarrisOrg shared
On Jun 3, 2020
RT @FLIxrisk: In this episode of the Future of Life Institute Podcast, @SamHarrisOrg joins us to discuss global priorities, the ethics surrounding them, and what we can do to address them. https://t.co/tCFIpV2pCL
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FLI Podcast: On Global Priorities, Existential Risk, and What Matters Most with Sam Harris

Sam Harris joins the FLI Podcast to discuss global priorities, the ethics surrounding them, and what we can do to address them.

@SamHarrisOrg shared
On Jun 3, 2020
RT @FLIxrisk: In this episode of the Future of Life Institute Podcast, @SamHarrisOrg joins us to discuss global priorities, the ethics surrounding them, and what we can do to address them. https://t.co/tCFIpV2pCL
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FLI Podcast: On Global Priorities, Existential Risk, and What Matters Most with Sam Harris

FLI Podcast: On Global Priorities, Existential Risk, and What Matters Most with Sam Harris

Sam Harris joins the FLI Podcast to discuss global priorities, the ethics surrounding them, and what we can do to address them.

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