AI will radically change society – we need radical ideas to match it
1 year, 8 months ago

AI will radically change society – we need radical ideas to match it

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. How would you design the society of 20 years’ time, after AI has become commonplace, if you had no idea of your race, gender, age or education? If Rawls were with us, he might argue that AI itself is only possible because of the collective pull of everyone in society, and if we want a fairer society we need to build institutions that benefit everyone. Whether you are a techno-optimist, or believe that an AI judgment day is upon us, we need to start having the conversations that build a fairer, more just society in the age of the algorithm.

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Is AI dominance inevitable? A technology ethicist says no
1 month, 1 week ago

Is AI dominance inevitable? A technology ethicist says no

Raw Story  

Anyone following the rhetoric around artificial intelligence in recent years has heard one version or another of the claim that AI is inevitable. In higher education, AI promoters admonish teachers that students must learn how to use AI or risk becoming uncompetitive when the time comes to find a job. And, in national security, AI’s champions say that either the …

No, Sam Altman, AI Won’t Solve All of Humanity’s Problems
2 months, 3 weeks ago

No, Sam Altman, AI Won’t Solve All of Humanity’s Problems

Wired  

We already knew where OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, stands on artificial intelligence vis-à-vis the human saga: It will be transformative, historic, and overwhelmingly beneficial. We’re getting this big AI bonus because “deep learning works,” as he said in an interview later in the week, mocking those who said that programs like OpenAI’s GPT4o were simply stupid engines delivering the next …

AI destroys jobs but also creates employment
5 months ago

AI destroys jobs but also creates employment

China Daily  

WANG XIAOYING/CHINA DAILY Although greater use of artificial intelligence in industrial and business applications will, while increasing productivity and economic growth, lead to overall loss of employment and jobs in the long term is still being debated, the issue is of great importance to China. The expected impact of greater application of AI and related technologies, including robotics, in various …

Opinion: What’s behind the AI boom? Exploited humans
5 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: What’s behind the AI boom? Exploited humans

LA Times  

Today we are in the middle of a hype cycle in which companies are racing to integrate artificial intelligence tools into products, transforming fields including logistics, manufacturing and healthcare. Sophisticated software functions only through thousands of hours of low-paid, menial labor — workers forced to work like robots in the hopes that AI will become more like a human. In …

Could AI deepen inequalities in the world?
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Could AI deepen inequalities in the world?

Al Jazeera  

AI technologies are hailed as cutting-edge, but they risk replicating biases and disparities already in place in our world today, experts warn. But these technologies, Tometi said, are a “real serious cause for alarm, because we have yet to address racism and anti-Back racism within the criminal justice system already”. “There’s just so much bias and discrimination of stereotypes that …

Big tech breakthroughs always come with big promises
1 year, 1 month ago

Big tech breakthroughs always come with big promises

The Independent  

Having come into the world at a time of zero plastic and no technology greater than a valve radio I have witnessed remarkable changes in how we live. Our first-class, permanent civil servants need to be allowed to do their work without interference or abuse from “comers in”. More like sci-fi I’m amused that the “great and good” are discussing …

AI has potential to create ‘dystopia or utopia’, minister says
1 year, 6 months ago

AI has potential to create ‘dystopia or utopia’, minister says

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We have to take breathing space to make sure we’re getting this right for the …

Schools ‘bewildered’ by very fast rate of change in AI – education figures
1 year, 7 months ago

Schools ‘bewildered’ by very fast rate of change in AI – education figures

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A letter to The Times, signed by more than 60 education figures, says: “Schools are …

10 ways AI will change the world – from curing cancer to wiping out humanity
1 year, 7 months ago

10 ways AI will change the world – from curing cancer to wiping out humanity

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Self-driving cars could make taxi drivers redundant While new jobs will be created, …

DC Edit | AI: Tech that can end, or refashion, our world
1 year, 11 months ago

DC Edit | AI: Tech that can end, or refashion, our world

Deccan Chronicle  

This editorial is written by a human being and not an artificial intelligence bot. The open to public, AI-based chat bot, is currently a recreational and test version, which has hit headlines after Microsoft reportedly entered into discussions to make a $ 10 billion investment into the firm that developed it — OpenAI, taking its valuation to something just short …

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