The other side of the ledger: where AI and robots are making life better.
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Building Angels
I get it. The world is overwhelming, language is broken technology that doesn’t even try to meander toward the truth anymore, and as Yeats said, “the best lack all conviction,…
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Democracy and Science Are Failing: Upward
The news looks grim. Democracy will fail. Science is in a Replication Crisis as the planet cooks. Language is broken. None of this is news. The viability of Representative Democracy…
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C-Beams Glittering in The Dark, Protecting Your Face
We are seeing public calls for banning all face Recognition use by police. Cambridge MA joins the cities considering a ban. I understand why…take a look at the gif above…
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Quit Blaming Video Games; Social Media is Killing Kids
Social media, but not video games, linked to depression in teens, according to Montreal study| CBC News Screen time — and social media in particular — is linked to an…
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The Smart Cow Theory of History
Perhaps you have heard of the Great Man Theory of History, The great man theory is a 19th-century idea according to which history can be largely explained by the impact…
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Humans Above Technology
Super excited to announce that the organization behind TrustNoRobot is now a non-profit that has been created to help promote humans above technology. Our simple belief is that technology should…
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From HAL to HAiL
Arguably one of the most iconic evil robots in cinematic history was HAL 9000, the murderous brain of a doomed spaceship in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. However, I don’t…
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The Coming Microservice of You
I was reading up on Erisology this morning, which sounds like a nascent idea around a science of disagreement, especially online. I like the thought, but as I have previously…
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The Greatest Flag in the Universe
A break from AI and ethics for a quick haiku for my favorite flag. The Triumph of man, The Laurel wreath, wraped around A Gear; claiming Space The Laurel wreath…
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Stopping the Enders by Solving Disease
What if we are not doomed? So, I recommend listening to After On, a really amazing podcast that covers some of the topics most relevant to our species, and this…
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Consumption and Creation Screentime
Are kids better able to recognize emotions in others after being away from screens? The conclusion from these researchers that they are, doesn’t surprise me. You need to see faces…
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How Facebook Live Might Mitigate Livestream Tragedy
A man decides to kill innocents. This man rallies his firearms, his ideologies, his hate. He picks his targets, and because it’s the Twentyfirst, he picks his GoPro and his…