Dallas Police Chief David Brown says officers used a device equipped with a bomb to kill a suspect, a perhaps unprecedented move that raises new questions about use of lethal force. Source: The Dallas Shooting…
Police used an unusual weapon to kill a man suspected of murdering five officers in Dallas on Thursday: A robot. Source: Here’s What We Know About the Robot Used In the Dallas Shooting – Fortune
Design Ethicist Tristan Harris breaks down ten ways that technology can hijack’s people’s minds by exploiting human psychological vulnerabilities. I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three…
There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks. This is really, truly frightening. Links: States predict inmates’ future crimes with secretive surveys The New Science of Sentencing Source:…
The biggest near term threat to the stability of nations might not be climate change, terrorism, or nuclear war. It just might be robots—putting millions of people out of jobs. Where will they all go?…
They say that kids aren’t born sexist or racist—hate is taught. Artificial intelligence is the same way, and humans are fabulous teachers. Source: It’s Too Late—We’ve Already Taught AI to Be Racist and Sexist |…
The application of machine learning to the ever-increasing amounts of data being produced throughout the world will change everything when it comes to our jobs. Yes, these new technologies will make jobs easier for many…
A class of students at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently learned that Jill Watson, the teacher’s assistant they’d been interacting with all semester, was actually a robot. Jill, powered by IBM’s Watson analytics system,…