…nearer than you think.
“Britain’s biggest employer organisation and main trade union body have sounded the alarm over the prospect of British companies implanting staff with microchips to improve security…” From The Guardian, November11, 2018: https://tinyurl.com/y89wrwon
No…nothing can go wrong. What could possibly go wrong? Artificial intelligence is our destiny, the next-step of human evolution. Technology will level the playing field of wealth and prosperity. Humans will experience longevity if not …Continue
One of the better summarizations of the economic disruption already at work and soon to become overwhelming. My only disappointment with this terrific presentation is his thought that better education and basic income will help …Continue
Mark Zuckerberg’s reputation is a bit checkered. Let’s put that aside and give him the benefit of the doubt, even for all of the “broken” things in Facebook’s past that he promised to fix and …Continue
Facial Recognition – Media attention to facial recognition has tended to focus on the misuses and negatives, especially the implied threat to civil liberty. But the technology has many pros. (Note: the tension between the …Continue
If you read Jeff Bezos’s annual letter to shareholders, then you can get a pretty good idea of his personality, character, and values. I once met him and came away with that impression: he is …Continue
From 80,000 Hours: Prof Allan Defoe on trying to prepare the world for the possibility AI will destabilise global politics From MIT Technology Review: Algorithms capable of collaboration and teamwork can outmaneuver human teams. From The Intercept: Interpol …Continue
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been articulate and sincere of late on the topic of ethics and human rights. (See for example, his interview with CNNMoney’s Laurie Segall). In this interview he makes reference …Continue
The opinion of TroubleisNear is that those parties developing technologies with serious to catastrophic risk downsides — most especially the major players, but even those developers whose applications seem remotely related to the risks — …Continue