We want autonomous cars to be as safe for everyone as possible, as long as they’re safest for us first Source: People Want Driverless Cars with Utilitarian Ethics, Unless They’re a Passenger – IEEE Spectrum
Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and IBM form a group to set the first industrywide best practices for the technology already powering many applications, such as voice and image recognition. Where’s Apple, tho? Source: Tech…
An update to the “Dallas police death robot” that I was was obsessed with a few months ago…. Dallas police have asked the Texas attorney general to prevent the “mandatory” release of documents relating to…
Blackballed by machine learning: how algorithms can destroy your chances of getting a job The Guardian’s published a long excerpt from Cathy O’Neil’s essential new book, Weapons of Math Destruction, in which O’Neil describes the…
The many ways we act by default (without even knowing it). Source: Set It and Forget It: How Default Settings Rule the World – ProPublica
Researchers have trained neural networks to identify obscured faces with disturbingly high accuracy. Source: ‘Faceless Recognition System’ Can Identify You Even When You Hide Your Face
Dan Turner explores the gray areas of user expectations, honest interfaces, and making design decisions with integrity. Source: Design, White Lies & Ethics · An A List Apart Article
In a dramatic man versus machine encounter, AlphaGo has secured its third, decisive victory against a renowned Go player. With scientists amazed at how fast AI is developing, it’s vital that humans stay in control…
After US police used a robot to help kill a gunman in Dallas, questions are being asked about where the strategy will lead. Source: Death robots: Where next after Dallas? – BBC News
Dallas shooting raises new questions. “The situation definitely raises interesting questions,” said Peter Asaro, an assistant professor at the New School for Public Engagement in New York City and a co-founder of the International Committee…