Blog – Page 166 – Technology vs Humanity: the coming clash of man and machine

Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and the Feud Over Killer Robots

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg thought his fellow Silicon Valley billionaire Elon Musk was behaving like an alarmist. Mr. Read full Article

What the AI Behind AlphaGo Can Teach Us About Being Human

Aja Huang dips his hand into a wooden bowl of polished black stones and, without looking, thumbs one between his middle and index finger. Peering through wire-rim glasses, he places the black stone on the board, in a mostly empty zone, just below and to the left of a single white stone. Read full Article

The Future of Humans? One Forecaster Calls for Obsolescence

HOMO DEUS A Brief History of Tomorrow By Yuval Noah Harari Illustrated. 449 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $35. “Organisms are algorithms,” Yuval Noah Harari asserts in his provocative new book, “Homo Deus. Read full Article

The rise of the useless class

Historian Yuval Noah Harari offers a bracing prediction: just as mass industrialization created the working class, the AI revolution will create a new unworking class. Read full Article

Facebook, Social Media and technology needs to be fixed for the good of humanity

Social media and other attention-based internet platforms have certainly captured our attention: adults in the U.S. spent nearly six hours per day on digital media last year. Read full Article