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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: September 2019

This month, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 180 influencers like Rob McCargow and John C. Havens, discussing hashtags such as #AI , #CDEISnapshots and #ResponsibleAI.
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@tabithagold shared
On Sep 12, 2019
Super #CDEISnapshots snapshots suggesting next steps for government, industry and civil society 🤥Deepfake technology and audio-visual disinformation. 😷The emerging role of AI in personal insurance. 🤐Voice assistant technology, such as smart speakers. https://t.co/BcrdnKCOLl
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CDEI publishes its first series of three snapshot papers on ethical issues in AI

The CDEI has published its first series of snapshot papers on issues of public concern in AI ethics including deepfakes, AI and insurance and smart speakers.

@tabithagold shared
On Sep 12, 2019
Super #CDEISnapshots snapshots suggesting next steps for government, industry and civil society 🤥Deepfake technology and audio-visual disinformation. 😷The emerging role of AI in personal insurance. 🤐Voice assistant technology, such as smart speakers. https://t.co/BcrdnKCOLl
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CDEI publishes its first series of three snapshot papers on ethical issues in AI

CDEI publishes its first series of three snapshot papers on ethical issues in AI

The CDEI has published its first series of snapshot papers on issues of public concern in AI ethics including deepfakes, AI and insurance and smart speakers.

@PKathrani shared
On Sep 23, 2019
Roboethics: The Human Ethics Applied to Robots https://t.co/rqR5KE640e @JohnAFlood @David_Gunkel @EmergTechEthics @PabloRedux @sd_marlow
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Roboethics: The Human Ethics Applied to Robots

Roboethics wants to answer the question of who or what is going to be held responsible for the actions of the robotic creations of engineers and designers until robots become moral actors, if that ever happens.

@PKathrani shared
On Sep 23, 2019
Roboethics: The Human Ethics Applied to Robots https://t.co/rqR5KE640e @JohnAFlood @David_Gunkel @EmergTechEthics @PabloRedux @sd_marlow
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Roboethics: The Human Ethics Applied to Robots

Roboethics: The Human Ethics Applied to Robots

Roboethics wants to answer the question of who or what is going to be held responsible for the actions of the robotic creations of engineers and designers until robots become moral actors, ...

@Miles_Brundage shared
On Sep 22, 2019
RT @charlotte_stix: Recommended weekend reading on the Swiss AI strategy 🇨🇭, Maltese AI ambitions 🇲🇹 , IoT devices 👁‍🗨, and how a megaproject on AI could reasonably look like in Europe🏆: https://t.co/U9nnGbrVU9
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Policy, Strategy and Regulation

What I found striking, are the parallels between the Maltese policy document Towards Trustworthy AI and the High Level Expert Group’s Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI. While the Maltese policy document acknowledges the Ethics Guidelines as one of the main sources of influence (among ...

@Miles_Brundage shared
On Sep 22, 2019
RT @charlotte_stix: Recommended weekend reading on the Swiss AI strategy 🇨🇭, Maltese AI ambitions 🇲🇹 , IoT devices 👁‍🗨, and how a megaproject on AI could reasonably look like in Europe🏆: https://t.co/U9nnGbrVU9
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Policy, Strategy and Regulation

Policy, Strategy and Regulation

What I found striking, are the parallels between the Maltese policy document Towards Trustworthy AI and the High Level Expert Group’s Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI. While the Maltese ...

@mtlaiethics shared
On Sep 21, 2019
Defining inclusivity in #smart #cities from an #AIEthics standpoint, read by @atg_abhishek https://t.co/ZkB5PQEdor #responsibleAI #Ethics #AI #ethicalAI
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AI Ethics: Inclusivity in Smart Cities

By Abhishek Gupta Let’s start with a brief history for this series of events that’s been running for over a year now and counts 1000+ people from the Montreal community as its members.

@mtlaiethics shared
On Sep 21, 2019
Defining inclusivity in #smart #cities from an #AIEthics standpoint, read by @atg_abhishek https://t.co/ZkB5PQEdor #responsibleAI #Ethics #AI #ethicalAI
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AI Ethics: Inclusivity in Smart Cities

AI Ethics: Inclusivity in Smart Cities

By Abhishek Gupta Let’s start with a brief history for this series of events that’s been running for over a year now and counts 1000+ people from the Montreal community as its members.

@j2bryson shared
On Sep 22, 2019
RT @mgubrud: @j2bryson One of the best critics of transhumanism, apart from myself, is conservative scholar Charles Rubin. This, from 2003, is a landmark, correctly labeling it "extinctionism." He has also written an interesting book, "The Eclipse of Man." https://t.co/WV37Rb1oHg
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Nature

Charles T. Rubin on the project to make human beings extinct

@j2bryson shared
On Sep 22, 2019
RT @mgubrud: @j2bryson One of the best critics of transhumanism, apart from myself, is conservative scholar Charles Rubin. This, from 2003, is a landmark, correctly labeling it "extinctionism." He has also written an interesting book, "The Eclipse of Man." https://t.co/WV37Rb1oHg
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Nature

Artificial Intelligence and Human Nature

Charles T. Rubin on the project to make human beings extinct

@alan_winfield shared
On Oct 2, 2019
RT @DorotheaBaur: I'm a bit late with this but: "the exploitation of behavioural predictions covertly derived from the #surveillance of users is capitalism’s latest stage" (Zuboff) -> #AI researchers earn $1m / year; people who label & classify the input #data $1.47 / hour https://t.co/eL6D0WaE5M
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The Guardian view on machine learning: a computer cleverer than you?

Editorial: There are dangers of teaching computers to learn the things humans do best – not least because makers of such machines cannot explain the knowledge their creations have acquired

@alan_winfield shared
On Oct 2, 2019
RT @DorotheaBaur: I'm a bit late with this but: "the exploitation of behavioural predictions covertly derived from the #surveillance of users is capitalism’s latest stage" (Zuboff) -> #AI researchers earn $1m / year; people who label & classify the input #data $1.47 / hour https://t.co/eL6D0WaE5M
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The Guardian view on machine learning: a computer cleverer than you?

The Guardian view on machine learning: a computer cleverer than you?

Editorial: There are dangers of teaching computers to learn the things humans do best – not least because makers of such machines cannot explain the knowledge their creations have acquired

@alan_winfield shared
On Sep 23, 2019
RT @SpiekSarah: @johnchavens gives a beatiful overview of our hard work @IEEEorg @IEEESA and supported by @ComputerSociety to bring ethics into engineering. Not just a few values - #ethics that really goes from principles to practice: https://t.co/hBXwMNyGXu
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Ethically Aligned Design: A Personal Side of "From Principles to Practice"​ (Part One)

Ethically Aligned Design, First Edition (EAD1e) launched in March this year (2019). It was written by over four hundred members of The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (The IEEE Global Initiative) and edited (including feedback) by about one thousand ...

@alan_winfield shared
On Sep 23, 2019
RT @SpiekSarah: @johnchavens gives a beatiful overview of our hard work @IEEEorg @IEEESA and supported by @ComputerSociety to bring ethics into engineering. Not just a few values - #ethics that really goes from principles to practice: https://t.co/hBXwMNyGXu
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Ethically Aligned Design: A Personal Side of "From Principles to Practice"​ (Part One)

Ethically Aligned Design: A Personal Side of "From Principles to Practice"​ (Part One)

Ethically Aligned Design, First Edition (EAD1e) launched in March this year (2019). It was written by over four hundred members of The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and ...

@RickKing16 shared
On Sep 11, 2019
RT @WXRfund: Top 10 Pioneering Women in the #ArtificialIntelligence and #MachineLearning sphere https://t.co/2xGQloWmsF via @EM360Tech #WomeninAI https://t.co/DHz80g1l7z
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Top 10 Pioneering Women in AI and Machine Learning

Unfortunately, the vast majority of STEM fields lack diversity. This week, however, we recognise the Top 10 pioneering women in AI and Machine Learning.

@RickKing16 shared
On Sep 11, 2019
RT @WXRfund: Top 10 Pioneering Women in the #ArtificialIntelligence and #MachineLearning sphere https://t.co/2xGQloWmsF via @EM360Tech #WomeninAI https://t.co/DHz80g1l7z
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Top 10 Pioneering Women in AI and Machine Learning

Top 10 Pioneering Women in AI and Machine Learning

Unfortunately, the vast majority of STEM fields lack diversity. This week, however, we recognise the Top 10 pioneering women in AI and Machine Learning.

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Director of #AI @PwC_UK | #ResponsibleAI #AIforGood @PwC | Advisor @APPG_AI @IEEESA @techUK | @TEDx Speaker | Fellow @theRSAorg | #HeForShe | views my own

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

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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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Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Ethics and Law; Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Westminster; #LawTech in Practice and Education; Views My Own: #urobotwm

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Oxford philosopher: philosophy/ethics of information, phil of technology https://t.co/ckv04URP6h

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Breaking technology news, analysis, and opinions from TechCrunch. Home to Disrupt, TC Sessions, and Startup Battlefield. Got a tip? [email protected]

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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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Head of @theRSAorg Future Work Centre. Mostly tweeting about jobs and technology. Bigging up @EastEndTrades

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Policy Analyst at OpenAI. Formerly: AI Policy Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford. Views my own.

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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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The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) is a multidisciplinary research and teaching dept at University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet.

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. A Cambridge University interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and mitigation of existential risk.

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Building https://t.co/2QBrpZ6i4c AI Advice Platform and https://t.co/r6TXIBzikM Festival. Also Chair the UK Gov's AI Council (Views my own. RT ≠ endorsement)

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Institute creating tangible and practical research in the ethical, safe and inclusive development of AI

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News and comment from the @Guardian's technology team

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Teaching Fellow @BathElecEng @UniofBath. PhD. Interested in all things AI, cognitive robots, AI ethics, bio evo and robot engineering.

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#SpatialComputing, #AI, #Robotics, #VR, #AR, #MixedReality dev. #Onalytica #influencer 2017 #1 #VR - 2016 (#1 #VR, #14 #AI, #35 #Robotics) #music #gamedev

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equality, transparency, fun Emeritus Professor of AI and Robotics, co-director @resprobotics, Chair of ICRAC, Head Judge on Robot Wars

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News from the MIT Media Lab

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