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Facebook ordered to stop collecting user data by Belgian court
Facebook has been ordered by a Belgian court to stop collecting data on users or face daily fines of €250,000 a day, or up to €100m. Read full article
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Ever wondered what a digital human looks like?
I know that I could get boring so won’t labour this one over and over again, but for people attending Eurofinance in Miami in May or Money 2020 in Singapore in March, I have great news for you! Both events are going to be promoting and launching my new book, Digital Human. Read full Article
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Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs
I took an Uber to an artificial-intelligence conference at MIT one recent morning, and the driver asked me how long it would take for autonomous vehicles to take away his job. I told him it would happen in about 15 to 20 years. He breathed a sigh of relief. Read full Article
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The power of dialogue in a disrupted world
Closing the divides in our fractured world will require collaboration among many stakeholders. And, more often than not, it is dialogue that sets cooperation apart from conflict, and progress from painful reversals of fortune. Read full Article
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Technology isn’t just changing society — it’s changing what it means to be human
Is there something unusual about the pace and nature of technological change today? Should we be more worried about the world we’re creating? Michael Bess is a historian of science at Vanderbilt University and the author of Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Life in a Bioengineered Society. Read full Article
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The #1 reason Facebook won’t ever change
Facebook’s (much deserved) media nightmare continued this week when it came under criticism for spamming members who signed up for two-factor authentication. This was followed by charges that its Protect VPN software (based on its Onava CDN) was essentially corporate spyware. Read full Article
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Are Asimov’s Laws of Robotics still good enough in 2018?
It’s been 76 years since renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov penned his Laws of Robotics. At the time, they must have seemed future-proof. But just how well do those rules hold up in a world where AI has permeated society so deeply we don’t even see it anymore? Read full Article
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Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans
This essay is featured in Global Dystopias. Order your copy here. This is not the dystopia we were promised. We are not learning to love Big Brother, who lives, if he lives at all, on a cluster of server farms, cooled by environmentally friendly technologies. Read full Article
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Baidu’s new A.I. can mimic your voice after listening to it for just one minute
We’re not in the business of writing regularly about “fake” news, but it’s hard not to be concerned about the kind of mimicry technology is making possible. First, researchers developed deep learning-based artificial intelligence (A.I. Read full Article
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For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned.
I first got news of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., via an alert on my watch. Even though I had turned off news notifications months ago, the biggest news still somehow finds a way to slip through. But for much of the next 24 hours after that alert, I heard almost nothing about the … Continue reading "For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned."
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The Observer view on how Facebook’s destructive ethos imperils democracy
Facebook likes to present itself as a tech company, but often appears more like an advertising corporation that happens to use digital technology in order to conduct its core business. Read full Article
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Take This App and Call Me in the Morning
Health tech companies are making a big push to digitize medicine, introducing novel tools like digital pills that track when patients take their drugs and smart spoons that can automatically adjust to hand tremors. Read full Article
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YouTube, the Great Radicalizer
At one point during the 2016 presidential election campaign, I watched a bunch of videos of Donald Trump rallies on YouTube. I was writing an article about his appeal to his voter base and wanted to confirm a few quotations. Soon I noticed something peculiar. Read full Article
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Europe’s Planned Digital Tax Heightens Tensions With U.S.
WASHINGTON — A global attempt to prevent large, multinational companies from shifting their profits to lower-tax jurisdictions is setting off a fight between the United States and Europe, as policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic spar over efforts to impose new taxes on foreign firms. Read full Article
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This professor is suing Cambridge Analytica to find out how they profiled him
An American professor’s legal claim against Cambridge Analytica to find out just how they build their profiles of voters has been given new importance by the revelations that the data analytics firm harvested private information from millions of Facebook users without their permission. Read full Article
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Six Key Points from the EU Commission’s New Report on Disinformation
You can read the article in Spanish or French. Today the EU Commission released the final report from the High Level Expert Group on Fake News, entitled “A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Disinformation”. Read full Article
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From dopamine to serotonin
We are obsessed with the pursuit of happiness; we are willing to do anything to reach a happy life. In the history of mankind happiness was an afterlife event promised by the gods and the angels. In our culture, we want it here, and we want it now. Read full Article
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The Key to AGI: Learning to Learn New Skills
You can read the article in more detail, but also make sure you read the comments. As I began to write this, I was going to refute each argument in detail. However, after a bit of thought, Kelly’s arguments are without any merit that its not worth the effort to refute. Read full Article
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AI Beats Human Lawyers At Their Own Game
The robot apocalypse isn’t all bad news: A new study suggests artificial intelligence makes better lawyers than humans do. LawGeex pitted 20 experienced attorneys against a three-year-old algorithm trained to evaluate contracts. Spoiler alert: the computer won. Read full Article
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The Case Against Robot Weapons Is Not So Simple
An open letter calling for a ban on lethal weapons controlled by artificially intelligent machines was signed last week by thousands of scientists and technologists, reflecting growing concern that swift progress in artificial intelligence could be harnessed to make killing machines more efficient Read full Article
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