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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: September 2020

This month, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 144 influencers like Montreal AI Ethics Institute and Rob McCargow, discussing hashtags such as #AI , #AIEthics and #responsibleAI.
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@Floridi shared
On Sep 15, 2020
RT @oxfordethicslab: Fake news and a 400-year-old problem: we need to resolve the ‘post-truth’ crisis - a throwback article from 2016 by @floridi for @guardian https://t.co/k8TnX1eS49
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Fake news and a 400-year-old problem: we need to resolve the ‘post-truth’ crisis

The internet echo chamber satiates our appetite for pleasant lies and reassuring falsehoods and has become the defining challenge of the 21st century

@Floridi shared
On Sep 15, 2020
RT @oxfordethicslab: Fake news and a 400-year-old problem: we need to resolve the ‘post-truth’ crisis - a throwback article from 2016 by @floridi for @guardian https://t.co/k8TnX1eS49
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Fake news and a 400-year-old problem: we need to resolve the ‘post-truth’ crisis

Fake news and a 400-year-old problem: we need to resolve the ‘post-truth’ crisis

The internet echo chamber satiates our appetite for pleasant lies and reassuring falsehoods and has become the defining challenge of the 21st century

@johnchavens shared
On Sep 18, 2020
RT @maria_axente: So 🤩👉that for our @PwC #AIEthics BookClub October edition I will be joined by my dear friend and the amazing human that is @johnchavens 🙏Looking forward to discuss his beautiful "Heartificial Intelligence" with him & my team. Read his book. So much 💙 https://t.co/qOfJbBDRzi
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Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines

Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines eBook: Havens, John: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

@johnchavens shared
On Sep 18, 2020
RT @maria_axente: So 🤩👉that for our @PwC #AIEthics BookClub October edition I will be joined by my dear friend and the amazing human that is @johnchavens 🙏Looking forward to discuss his beautiful "Heartificial Intelligence" with him & my team. Read his book. So much 💙 https://t.co/qOfJbBDRzi
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Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines

Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines

Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines eBook: Havens, John: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

@CSERCambridge shared
On Sep 21, 2020
RT @Clarissajaz: The Bioengineering Technologies to Look Out for in the Next Decade https://t.co/99KMngJ3gd via @TheWireScience Great work produced at @CSERCambridge together with @LukaKemp @Rhodes_C_ @Bill_Sutherland @lalithasun
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The Bioengineering Technologies to Look Out for in the Next Decade

A high-level summary of the top 20 issues identified in a bioengineering horizon scan.

@CSERCambridge shared
On Sep 21, 2020
RT @Clarissajaz: The Bioengineering Technologies to Look Out for in the Next Decade https://t.co/99KMngJ3gd via @TheWireScience Great work produced at @CSERCambridge together with @LukaKemp @Rhodes_C_ @Bill_Sutherland @lalithasun
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The Bioengineering Technologies to Look Out for in the Next Decade

The Bioengineering Technologies to Look Out for in the Next Decade

A high-level summary of the top 20 issues identified in a bioengineering horizon scan.

@mtlaiethics shared
On Sep 15, 2020
RT @AmitK_NewDelhi: Vry insightful take by @atg_abhishek on d significance of incorporating diff. #geographical #sociocultural #socioeconomical contexts while devising a #global #AIethics framewrk! Lack of dis will lead to #biased #asymmetric #exclusionary model! @mtlaiethics https://t.co/aeEslhs2GN
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AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes

If organizations working on global AI ethics fail to acknowledge this, they risk developing standards that are, at best, meaningless and ineffective across all the world’s regions. There’s a clear lack of regional diversity in many AI advisory boards, expert panels, and councils. To ...

@mtlaiethics shared
On Sep 15, 2020
RT @AmitK_NewDelhi: Vry insightful take by @atg_abhishek on d significance of incorporating diff. #geographical #sociocultural #socioeconomical contexts while devising a #global #AIethics framewrk! Lack of dis will lead to #biased #asymmetric #exclusionary model! @mtlaiethics https://t.co/aeEslhs2GN
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AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes

AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes

If organizations working on global AI ethics fail to acknowledge this, they risk developing standards that are, at best, meaningless and ineffective across all the world’s regions. There’s ...

@RecklessCoding shared
On Sep 24, 2020
RT @PerraultAndrew: We are excited to be holding an iteration of the #AI4SG workshop at @IJCAIconf #IJCAI2020. Co-organized with Arpita Biswas, Sofia Segkouli, @recklesscoding, @brwilder, @SekouLRemy and @erichorvitz. CFP is here: https://t.co/VtFRU8U7ga. Submissions due Oct. 12.
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AI for Social Good workshop

Join us at IJCAI in January (DATES TBA) for the AI for Social Good workshop. This event will explore how artificial intelligence can contribute to solving social problems and will bring together researchers and practitioners across artificial intelligence and a range of application ...

@RecklessCoding shared
On Sep 24, 2020
RT @PerraultAndrew: We are excited to be holding an iteration of the #AI4SG workshop at @IJCAIconf #IJCAI2020. Co-organized with Arpita Biswas, Sofia Segkouli, @recklesscoding, @brwilder, @SekouLRemy and @erichorvitz. CFP is here: https://t.co/VtFRU8U7ga. Submissions due Oct. 12.
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AI for Social Good workshop

AI for Social Good workshop

Join us at IJCAI in January (DATES TBA) for the AI for Social Good workshop. This event will explore how artificial intelligence can contribute to solving social problems and will bring ...

@FHIOxford shared
On Sep 18, 2020
Seeking researchers in Foundational Deep Future Topics and Global Priorities Research - macrostrategy. Topics incl. impact of future technology, x-risk, anthropics, population ethics, game theory, and consideration of the Fermi paradox. Apply by Oct 19 https://t.co/WIJcXSxvNO https://t.co/O7SdHdCrTz
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Researchers in Foundational Deep Future Topics / Global Priorities Research

FHI is a multidisciplinary research institute at Oxford University studying big picture questions for human civilization.

@FHIOxford shared
On Sep 18, 2020
Seeking researchers in Foundational Deep Future Topics and Global Priorities Research - macrostrategy. Topics incl. impact of future technology, x-risk, anthropics, population ethics, game theory, and consideration of the Fermi paradox. Apply by Oct 19 https://t.co/WIJcXSxvNO https://t.co/O7SdHdCrTz
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Researchers in Foundational Deep Future Topics / Global Priorities Research

Researchers in Foundational Deep Future Topics / Global Priorities Research

FHI is a multidisciplinary research institute at Oxford University studying big picture questions for human civilization.

@mtlaiethics shared
On Sep 20, 2020
RT @techreview: Children are at the forefront when it comes to using and being used by artificial intelligence. New guardrails could prevent them from getting hurt. https://t.co/auqPoW553M
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Why kids need special protection from AI’s influence

Algorithms can change the course of children’s lives. Kids are interacting with Alexas that can record their voice data and influence their speech and social development. They’re binging videos on TikTok and YouTube pushed to them by recommendation systems that end up shaping their ...

@mtlaiethics shared
On Sep 20, 2020
RT @techreview: Children are at the forefront when it comes to using and being used by artificial intelligence. New guardrails could prevent them from getting hurt. https://t.co/auqPoW553M
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Why kids need special protection from AI’s influence

Why kids need special protection from AI’s influence

Algorithms can change the course of children’s lives. Kids are interacting with Alexas that can record their voice data and influence their speech and social development. They’re binging ...

@AdaLovelaceInst shared
On Sep 15, 2020
@jcagundlach @ImogenParker @NuffieldFJO @lisa_harker @algoethik Yes, we have a summary of the event here: https://t.co/h4H2Imbcqc
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Algorithmic decision-making and predictive analytics in children’s social care

On Monday 2 March 2020, the Ada Lovelace Institute, the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory and Nuffield Foundation convened a one-day event to discuss the use of data analytics for delivering...

@AdaLovelaceInst shared
On Sep 15, 2020
@jcagundlach @ImogenParker @NuffieldFJO @lisa_harker @algoethik Yes, we have a summary of the event here: https://t.co/h4H2Imbcqc
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Algorithmic decision-making and predictive analytics in children’s social care

Algorithmic decision-making and predictive analytics in children’s social care

On Monday 2 March 2020, the Ada Lovelace Institute, the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory and Nuffield Foundation convened a one-day event to discuss the use of data analytics for ...

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International think tank helping people build AI ethically. Subscribe for AI ethics research/commentary/events: https://t.co/20eZxcM7bB

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E.D., IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous & Intelligent Systems & Council on Extended Intelligence. Tweets mine. Author, Heartificial Intelligence.

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Oxford philosopher: digital ethics phil. of information, phil. of technology https://t.co/QpFbADVHsa…

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FLI catalyzes and supports research and initiatives to safeguard life and develop optimistic visions of the future. Official account. RT is not endorsement.

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Professor - Northern Illinois University (USA). Author of Thinking Otherwise, The Machine Question, Of Remixology, Gaming the System, and Robot Rights.

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Studying AI's social implications + organizing w/tech workers. Co-founder @ainowinstitute + Minderoo Research Professor, NYU. Ex-Google Open Research. She/her

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Official Twitter account for the @NYUniversity research institute dedicated to examining the social and political implications of artificial intelligence.

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