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On May 4, 2022
RT @hiig_berlin: The lecture will kick off our cross-cultural #conference on 11-13 May with @waseda_univ on the realities & imaginaries of #AI technologies. How do these vision influence political, economic and civil society debates around the world? 🔎Programm: https://t.co/vuEtGVx8H6 https://t.co/wdh2YPYjWk
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Artificial Intelligence and the Human – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction

Current debates on artificial intelligence often conflate the realities of AI technologies with the fictional renditions of what they might one day become. What if these useful technologies will one day develop their own intentions that run contrary to those of humans?

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On May 4, 2022
RT @hiig_berlin: The lecture will kick off our cross-cultural #conference on 11-13 May with @waseda_univ on the realities & imaginaries of #AI technologies. How do these vision influence political, economic and civil society debates around the world? 🔎Programm: https://t.co/vuEtGVx8H6 https://t.co/wdh2YPYjWk
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Artificial Intelligence and the Human – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction

Artificial Intelligence and the Human – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction

Current debates on artificial intelligence often conflate the realities of AI technologies with the fictional renditions of what they might one day become. What if these useful technologies ...

Call for Contributions: Artificial Intelligence and the Human – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction

Call for Contributions: Artificial Intelligence and the Human – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction

The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), the Japanese-German Center Berlin (JDZB) and Waseda University (Tokyo) invite to an international Japanese-German ...

New thinking - The future of work

New thinking - The future of work

With the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital tec...

Careers

Careers

At the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, our vision is led by our commitment to ensuring that humanity benefits from the technology and that the benefits are broadly ...

Insights from AI/AnalyticsVideo analytics and AI for a human-centric society

Insights from AI/AnalyticsVideo analytics and AI for a human-centric society

Artificial intelligence (AI) and video analytics are rapidly becoming integral parts of our lives, transforming corporate activities, and creating many opportunities to improve the human ...

EmotiBit: Internal Context and the Future of Augmented Cognition

EmotiBit: Internal Context and the Future of Augmented Cognition

Studying physiological signals and how they change gives us a window into ourselves and how we can enhance our health, well-being and capabilities in the 21st century. This fall my lab is ...

15 Pictures From The Future Of Human Evolution

15 Pictures From The Future Of Human Evolution

"Science and human advancement has always been propelled forward by the people who do things differently and those who are not afraid to break the rules."

Tinkering with Consciousness – The Great Ethical Precipice We Face

Tinkering with Consciousness – The Great Ethical Precipice We Face

In the coming decades ahead, we’ll likely augment our minds and explore not only a different kind of “human experience”, we’ll likely explore the further reaches of sentience and ...

Artificial intelligence: Can ethics keep pace with technological progress?

Artificial intelligence: Can ethics keep pace with technological progress?

This piece was written by Nicoletta Iacobacci, global ethics catalyst and adjunct professor at Webster University and Jinan University, and author of Exponential Ethics. For more like this, ...

AI as an enabler of human potential? You can bet on it.

AI as an enabler of human potential? You can bet on it.

Recent data strongly weighs in favor of AI’s massive capabilities to boost human potential and fundamentally change the nature of work.

Inside the larps that let human players experience AI life

Inside the larps that let human players experience AI life

Game designers are using artificial intelligence to explore everything from racial discrimination to cathartic emotion

These are the few jobs that robots won’t take from us

These are the few jobs that robots won’t take from us

In the next 12 years, 800 million people will lose their jobs to automation. But hairdressers, nurses, and artists are safe–for now.

Could artificial intelligence make doctors obsolete?

Could artificial intelligence make doctors obsolete?

Machines that can learn and correct themselves already perform better than doctors at some tasks, says Jörg Goldhahn , but Vanessa Rampton and Giatgen A Spinas maintain that machines will ...

Mapping AI & Equality, Part 3: AI’s role in altering the human condition and what it means to be human

Mapping AI & Equality, Part 3: AI’s role in altering the human condition and what it means to be human

The current AI discourse revolves around a core question: Will the human condition be improved through AI, or will AI transform the human condition in ways that undermine the basic tenets ...

The future of work is more human – thanks to AI

The future of work is more human – thanks to AI

Learn more about the future of automation and how businesses should prepare for the change. Find out more with insights and other technology updates from AT&T Business.

Cantona’s ‘science will make us eternal’ speech was funny – but he has a point

Cantona’s ‘science will make us eternal’ speech was funny – but he has a point

Alexander Thomas of the University of East London believes football icon Eric Cantona had a point in a recent speech that went viral.

Augmented Intelligence is the New Artificial Intelligence

Augmented Intelligence is the New Artificial Intelligence

Augmented Intelligence, a technological approach relies on big data that coalesces the likes of machine learning, NLP and data analytics to derive germane data, is a development of ...

Hitting the Books: Is the hunt for technological supremacy harming our collective humanity?

Hitting the Books: Is the hunt for technological supremacy harming our collective humanity?

In his new book, Erik J Larson investigates the efforts to build computers that process information like we do and why we're much farther away from having human-equivalent AIs than most ...

AI Answers Existential Questions

AI Answers Existential Questions

We surveyed over 1,000 people to find out if they could identify the difference between AI-generated answers versus human answers to existential questions.

How to tell the difference between AI and BS

How to tell the difference between AI and BS

  Artificial intelligence is as important as electricity, indoor plumbing, and the internet to modern society. In short: it would be extremely difficult to live without it now. But it’s ...