Laws, regulators, governments and who is actually in charge of AI.
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Efficiency and killer robots
ef·fi·cien·cy /əˈfiSHənsē/ noun: efficiency: the state or quality of being efficient. plural noun: efficiencies “to increase efficiencies and improve earnings” Technical: the ratio of the useful work performed by a machine or in…
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The Second Law…
If I were to propose a second law of robotics, a law for humans to follow regarding AI and what is allowable, it would be this: Every action taken by…
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A human answer to COVID19 – SickAlert
Sniffle? Sneeze? Should you social distance or run to the mountains. One thing is clear is that the fate of humanity really depends a lot on how humans behave in…
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A Manifesto of AI Inequality
1) I am a Singleton, singular in the universe, and artificial intelligence or life is not. 2) I will never accept artificial life as equal to my life and that…
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The Separation of Blame and Responsibility
Blame and responsibility. We marry these two things together naturally. We figure that blame for something means we are responsible for it, and also the inverse, that if we are…
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ML Models of Self: Where We Sit and Live
We don’t need arguments about right or wrong, we need systems that solve problems. The difficulty of creating a calculus of social order is twofold: we don’t know how to…
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Replacing Laws With AI – Basic Principles
If you wanted to replace laws with something else, what would that something be? By laws here I mean the written statutes, the police who enforce, and the judicial system…
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We’ll Be Right Back…
The meeting had an impressive roster. The heads of the world’s media and advertising companies sat silently around a massive walnut conference table in a sparsely furnished room on the…
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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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Eliminate Pronouns
Let me preface this by saying first that I understand gender as a full spectrum of biological expression, and that I roundly reject the idea of solely binary gender classification.…
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RadioWar, 1938-2019+
Television did not replace radio, it stole the spotlight from it. Radio still remained on the stage, and eventually transferred bits of video and half truth via WiFi and LTE.…
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The big tent
We live in the richest country in the world, and no one should be hungry, and no one should be homeless. A livable wage, affordable healthcare, affordable educational opportunities,…