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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, including public citizens, small businesses utilizing AI or entrepreneurs developing the latest tech.

Monthly report: October 2018

This month, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 198 influencers like WIRED and Joanna J Bryson, discussing hashtags such as #AI , #AIEthics and #ArtificialIntelligence.
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@aiethicslab shared
On Oct 29, 2018
100 Women in #AIEthics including @AIEthicsLab's @ccansu ✨ https://t.co/wPVijmqk6S
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100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics to Follow in 2019 and beyond

Meet the women working relentlessly to save humanity from the dark side of AI

@aiethicslab shared
On Oct 29, 2018
100 Women in #AIEthics including @AIEthicsLab's @ccansu ✨ https://t.co/wPVijmqk6S
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100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics to Follow in 2019 and beyond

100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics to Follow in 2019 and beyond

Meet the women working relentlessly to save humanity from the dark side of AI

@robmccargow shared
On Oct 25, 2018
A global ethics study aims to help #AI solve the self-driving “trolley problem” - via @techreview https://t.co/Dbq3JDKeaH
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A global ethics study aims to help AI solve the self-driving “trolley problem”

Millions of people in 233 countries weighed in on whose lives self-driving cars should prioritize, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures.

@robmccargow shared
On Oct 25, 2018
A global ethics study aims to help #AI solve the self-driving “trolley problem” - via @techreview https://t.co/Dbq3JDKeaH
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A global ethics study aims to help AI solve the self-driving “trolley problem”

A global ethics study aims to help AI solve the self-driving “trolley problem”

Millions of people in 233 countries weighed in on whose lives self-driving cars should prioritize, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures.

@ch402 shared
On Oct 9, 2018
Reminder: There are a growing number of AI residency programs. Consider applying to multiple. :) Google: https://t.co/F6iOLhAoGo OpenAI: https://t.co/APhlgoXW17 Facebook: https://t.co/sI7qJu1rjI Uber: https://t.co/GRJvvWqNGW Microsoft: https://t.co/KvQBWdhxpF
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Google AI Residency Program

The Google AI Residency Program is a 12-month research training role designed to jumpstart or advance your career in machine learning research.

@ch402 shared
On Oct 9, 2018
Reminder: There are a growing number of AI residency programs. Consider applying to multiple. :) Google: https://t.co/F6iOLhAoGo OpenAI: https://t.co/APhlgoXW17 Facebook: https://t.co/sI7qJu1rjI Uber: https://t.co/GRJvvWqNGW Microsoft: https://t.co/KvQBWdhxpF
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Google AI Residency Program

Google AI Residency Program

The Google AI Residency Program is a 12-month research training role designed to jumpstart or advance your career in machine learning research.

@IEET shared
On Oct 20, 2018
RT @MFordFuture: The Robots Are Coming, and They Want Your Job #RiseoftheRobots @mattblakeUK https://t.co/6fYv4YDFTP
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The Robots Are Coming, and They Want Your Job

Experts believe almost a third of the global workforce will be automated by 2030. But are universities preparing students for the rise of the office machines?

@IEET shared
On Oct 20, 2018
RT @MFordFuture: The Robots Are Coming, and They Want Your Job #RiseoftheRobots @mattblakeUK https://t.co/6fYv4YDFTP
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The Robots Are Coming, and They Want Your Job

The Robots Are Coming, and They Want Your Job

Experts believe almost a third of the global workforce will be automated by 2030. But are universities preparing students for the rise of the office machines?

@RickKing16 shared
On Oct 21, 2018
RT @ShafiAhmed5: This robot co-taught a course at West Point https://t.co/NNVn4EYPfc
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This robot co-taught a course at West Point

Two sessions of an introduction to ethics philosophy course.

@RickKing16 shared
On Oct 21, 2018
RT @ShafiAhmed5: This robot co-taught a course at West Point https://t.co/NNVn4EYPfc
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This robot co-taught a course at West Point

This robot co-taught a course at West Point

Two sessions of an introduction to ethics philosophy course.

@robmccargow shared
On Nov 2, 2018
RT @RANDCorporation: Discussions about bias in #ArtificialIntelligence often focus on algorithms that accidentally cause harm. But the problem could run much deeper, says RAND's @douglascyeung: Bad actors could attack AI systems by *deliberately* introducing bias into them. https://t.co/eXiAUAZZRT
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Intentional Bias Is Another Way Artificial Intelligence Could Hurt Us

Conversations about unconscious bias in artificial intelligence often focus on algorithms unintentionally causing disproportionate harm to entire swaths of society. But the problem could run much deeper. ...

@robmccargow shared
On Nov 2, 2018
RT @RANDCorporation: Discussions about bias in #ArtificialIntelligence often focus on algorithms that accidentally cause harm. But the problem could run much deeper, says RAND's @douglascyeung: Bad actors could attack AI systems by *deliberately* introducing bias into them. https://t.co/eXiAUAZZRT
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Intentional Bias Is Another Way Artificial Intelligence Could Hurt Us

Intentional Bias Is Another Way Artificial Intelligence Could Hurt Us

Conversations about unconscious bias in artificial intelligence often focus on algorithms unintentionally causing disproportionate harm to entire swaths of society. But the problem could ...

@aiethicslab shared
On Oct 25, 2018
"Would a BDSM Sex #Robot Violate Asimov's First Law of #Robotics?" asks @Gizmodo 🤖💋 Read the answer from @AIEthicsLab's @ccansu (and from @rcalo @ruthaylett @NoreenHerzfeld @jgcarpenter) ➡️ https://t.co/CafMK7xzvb #roboethics #AIethics #ethics #AI
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Would a BDSM Sex Robot Violate Asimov's First Law of Robotics?

The sex robot community—the people who make the sex robots, and the people who want to have sex with the sex robots—suffered a blow this past week, when the Houston City Council voted to preemptively ban what would’ve been the first sex robot “brothel” in the U.S. ...

@aiethicslab shared
On Oct 25, 2018
"Would a BDSM Sex #Robot Violate Asimov's First Law of #Robotics?" asks @Gizmodo 🤖💋 Read the answer from @AIEthicsLab's @ccansu (and from @rcalo @ruthaylett @NoreenHerzfeld @jgcarpenter) ➡️ https://t.co/CafMK7xzvb #roboethics #AIethics #ethics #AI
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Would a BDSM Sex Robot Violate Asimov's First Law of Robotics?

Would a BDSM Sex Robot Violate Asimov's First Law of Robotics?

The sex robot community—the people who make the sex robots, and the people who want to have sex with the sex robots—suffered a blow this past week, when the Houston City Council voted to ...

@robmccargow shared
On Oct 14, 2018
RT @azeem: Europe's history explains why it will never produce a Google - The Economist https://t.co/4u9OCDclRM via @nuzzel thanks @ViliLe
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@robmccargow shared
On Oct 14, 2018
RT @azeem: Europe's history explains why it will never produce a Google - The Economist https://t.co/4u9OCDclRM via @nuzzel thanks @ViliLe
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WIRED is where tomorrow is realized.

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Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Cognition, Culture, & Society; AI Ethics, Safety, & Policy. Vaguely professional tweets—for more: @j2blather; fewer: @j2breve

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E.D., IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous & Intelligent Systems and E.D., Council on Extended Intelligence. Tweets are my own.

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Humanist/Futurist, Author, Future Explainer/Designer, Global Keynote Speaker see https://t.co/1TvAn2nTF7 New book: https://t.co/99XuSFoZvD CEO @FuturesAgency

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Engineer, roboethicist and pro-feminist. Interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence and culture.

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co-founder https://t.co/ZvDGNlehRt + professor @usfca_msds | past: Duke math PhD, quant, early Uber eng | now: making neural nets uncool

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Writing and giving talks on the impact of #AI on people, economies and societies. Free book available at https://t.co/UNyK5mkL7u

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When the system is too slow to adopt #ethics.....A lab to bring together experts in ethics with experts in science and law for designing ethical #AI🤖

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Our mission is to make technology a greater force for good by bringing about better-informed, more conscious technology decisions through our journalism.

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Google AI is focused on bringing the benefits of AI to everyone. In conducting and applying our research, we advance the state-of-the-art in many domains.

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The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies is an international nonprofit technoprogressive think tank.

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The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms Behind Money & Information http://t.co/XyosGJviUF Reputation/Search/Finance

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ML Researcher. I want to understand things clearly and explain them well. https://t.co/KVfPJFvOi7

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