Digital Ethics: some bottom lines

Yoshua Bengia, one of the fathers of AI is worried about its future – we need more democracy in A.I. research !

“another reason why we need to have more democracy in AI research. It’s that AI research by itself will tend to lead to concentrations of power, money, and researchers. The best students want to go to the best companies. They have much more mone...

AI-augmented human services Using cognitive technologies to transform program delivery

Natalie is exhausted. The deputy director of a large county human services agency, she’s been wrestling all week with staff turnover and media coverage about long wait times for services. Read full Article

Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s keynote at the Foro de la Cultura 2018 in Burgos Spain: Technology, Humanity and The Future

Read more about this event and my talk, here (in Spanish)… “Los efectos de la tecnología, la digitalización y el desarrollo de la inteligencia artificial han protagonizado la conversación entre el escritor y futurista alemánGerd Leonhard y el poeta y periodista Antonio Lucas. «Nuestro mundo va a cambiar más en los próximos 20 años que en los pasados … Continue reading "Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s keynote at the Foro de la Cultura 2018 in Burgos Spain: Technology, Humanity and The Future"

Is technology re-engineering humanity?

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” This truism—by the media-scholar John Culkin about the work of Marshall McLuhan—is more potent than ever in the age of data and algorithms. The technology is having a profound effect on how people live and think. Read full Article